Black Sea Journal of Health Science

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One of the most basic features in anatomy teaching is the shapes, sizes and neighborhood relationships of tissues and organs. The most important educational tool that meets these features is cadavers. Providing cadavers and dissection training has been a problem in many countries, especially in the first periods. The most important reasons for this were religious understanding and social prejudices. Although the first dissection practices on humans began in Europe in the 14th century, the impact of scientific advances in Europe only began to be felt in the Ottoman lands in the 17th century. The reason why 1841 was an important year for cadaver dissection in our country is that, as a result of the insistence of dean Bernard and anatomist Spitzer and the efforts of Hekimbaşı İsmail Efendi, cadaver dissection was first carried out by Spitzer at Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Şahane, with the decree of Sultan Abdülmecid. Since the beginning of the 19th century, cadaver procurement and dissection efforts have had to face different problems in different time periods. With the rapidly increasing number of medical faculties and medical students in the last thirty years, the number of students per cadaver has increased dramatically. It is obvious that this situation may reduce the quality of medical education and affect good medical practice after graduation. It should not be forgotten that "Cadaver is a medical student's first patient and most effective teacher”.