School culture in health education institutions: Gulhane Military Medical Academy (GMMA), health noncommissioned officer college example

The aim of this study is to investigate the perception of school culture of the students and trainees of the GMMA, Health Noncommissioned Officer College (HNOC) which is located in Ankara, Keçiören town, Etlik district. This study is a methodological study.The population of the study performed on a total of 223 persons which is composed of 126 second year students and 97 trainee sergeants at Field Military Health School, Samsun. Whole population was tried to reach. A questionnaire was performed on 122 students and 80 trainees (total 202 persons). The questionnaire was performed via face to face interview method and the scale participation rate was 95%.The scale which is developed by Erdem and İşbaşı was used as the data source. This scale was later used by Akdeniz University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (2001), Gulhane Military Medical Academy (Ozer et al, 2004), Ankara University, Faculty of Education (Yılmaz and Oğuz, 2005), Balıkesir University (Köksal, 2007), and Güvercinlik Technical and Industrial Vocational High School (Durmuş, 2010). ?GMMA, Health Noncommissioned Officer College, School Culture Questionnaire? was used for data collection. Two hypotheses was tried to test in the study. The data was uploaded to SPSS 15.0 program and analysis of the data was performed with arithmetic mean, standard deviation, frequency analysis, factor analysis. For independent groups, t test and correlation analysis was used. Statistical significance was set at p<0.05.When the suggestions given to questions of scale by the students and trainees are evaluated, a statistical significance was found between groups of 20 of the suggestions. In all statistically significant suggestions, the response of the students was more positive favorable than trainees.In terms of school culture; it is found that organizational structure/activity dimensions was related with communication/relationship, symbols, and power distance dimensions; communication/relationship dimension was related with organizational structure / function and symbol dimensions; symbol dimension was related with organizational structure / activity and communication dimensions and these relations had weak to moderate strength. Power distance dimension was found to be only related to organizational structure / activity dimension.Key Words:1.Culture2.Organizational Culture3.School Culture4.Health Service5.Health NCO