Table 2.
Selected survey responses overall and by survey year, first-year medical students, Perelman School of Medicine 2015–2018
| Overall* | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ‘Before the first day of anatomy lab, [I] had … seen a dead body’ | 193 (61) | 65 (72) | 71 (61) | 20 (54) | 37 (49) |
| ‘The cadaver is tissue/an inanimate object/a specimen’ | 97 (30) | 24 (27) | 43 (37) | 10 (27) | 20 (26) |
| ‘The cadaver is a person who used to be alive’ | 221 (69) | 66 (73) | 73 (63) | 27 (73) | 55 (72) |
| ‘The anatomy lab experience changed how [I] feel about people with overweight/obesity’ | 71 (22) | 21 (23) | 26 (22) | 11 (30) | 13 (17) |
| ‘The anatomy lab experience changed how [I] feel about [my] own weight’ | 83 (26) | 25 (28) | 32 (28) | 8 (22) | 18 (24) |
All values are means ± SD, n (%). * Reported N (%) indicate a ‘yes’ response