Findik, SiddikaCihan, Fatma G.2024-02-232024-02-2320190379-5284https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.11.24631https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12452/15479Objectives: To investigate pathology awareness in patients applying to a pathology laboratory. Method: This cross-sectional study included 150 patients and patients' relatives. A questionnaire, prepared by the researchers according to the literature, was administered at the Pathology Laboratory, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey on May 2018. Results: Of the participants, 79 (52.7%) were female and 71 (47.3%) were male. The mean age was 39.56 +/- 14.16 years old. Ninety-eight (65.3%) of them thought that patients do not have right to choose their pathologist. Of the participants, 24 (16%) did not know that the medical school had to be completed in order to become a pathologist and 73 (48.7%) of them did not know that 4 years postgraduate training was required. Fifty-nine (39.3%) of the participants did not know the pathologists were a medical doctor. While 89 participants (59.4%) had no idea what frozen section means, 66 people (44%) did not know that the pathologist uses microscope and 64 (42.7%) of them thought that all diseases could be diagnosed 100% by pathological examination. Forty-six (30.7%) of the participants thought that all specimens are not needed to be examined. Conclusion: The knowledge and awareness of the participants about the pathology discipline came out to be inadequate.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess[Keyword Not Available]Article401111501157317074132-s2.0-85074742164Q3WOS:000501756600010Q310.15537/smj.2019.11.24631