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Background: Allied health personnel are inviduals who is working in hospital and consulted by the patients who needs to learn about which department they should apply according to their complaints.Material and Methods:A questionaire was performed to allied health personel working our hospital based on voluntary. The questionnaires were distributed to the 35 people who agreed to participate in the study and were collected after answered. Obtained data was analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics version 15.0 software program.Results: 62.9% (n = 22) of the 35 participants were secretary and 37.1% (n = 13) were nurses. Most of the study participants (n = 31, 88.6%) said to know thoracic surgery specialists working in the hospital. When asking to participant about organs in region of thorax, of 94.3% (n:33) for lung, of 91.4% (n:32) for heart, of 100% (n:35) for kidney, of 94.3% (n:33) for spleen and of 88.6% (n:31) for gallbladder knew correctly region of organs in thorax. The percentage of Participants who knew the location of timus in the thorax was 20%(n:7). When assesment the answering to question on disease being treated by thoracic surgery, chest trauma, rib fractures and chest deformities were known highly accurate. the correct response rate to answering to question about esophagus, mediastinum, diaphragm and thymus gland diseases and regional hiperhiroz were low.68.6% (n = 24) of the participants knew that lung operations were performed by thoracic surgery and the ratio was 100% (n = 13) for nurses, and 50% (n = 11) for secretary group.When questioned about breast surgery, %82.9 (n:29) of all participants answered as general surgery, this ratio was %100 for nurses. The correct response rate to o questions was higher in nurses compared to secretaries.Conclusion:This study reveals that knowledge and awareness of non-physician health personnels about Thoracic Surgery is insufficient and especially secretarias triaging patients need to be educated on this subject

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