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The objective of this study is to comparatively analyze the university-based and alternative teacher certification systems in Turkey in terms of the attitudes of trainee teachers toward the teaching profession, explore the reasons of choosing teaching as a career as well as analyze attitudes by gender, department, and graduating faculty type in the frame of dominant ideological and economical paradigms. For the study, rational screening model was used, employing mixed methods research strategy. Participants in the study were 208 trainee teachers from the departments at the faculty of educational sciences and 200 trainee teachers at alternative certification programs at the same university. As a result of this research, it was found that university-based trainee teachers have better attitudes than trainee teachers of alternative certification programs toward the teaching profession and that female trainee teachers in both groups had better attitudes toward the teaching profession. Further, it was found that university-based trainee teachers utilized intrinsic motivators more, whereas trainees at alternative certification programs mainly utilized extrinsic motivators for career choice. Thus, intrinsic motivations of student teachers need to be strengthened as without realizing and emphasizing the divine values and the respectability of the teaching profession, it would be impossible to raise a new generation of teachers with high levels of intrinsic motivation, and the result could be having an army of technicians aiming to earn more money or have a more comfortable life rather than intellectuals who believe in contributing to and making a change in the lives of students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kimura disease (KD) is an uncommon idiopathic inflammatory disease (Khoo and Chan, Cutis 70(1):57–61, ). This chronic inflammatory soft tissue disease is characterized by lymphoid and angiomatous tissue proliferation with lymphadenopathy, eosinophilia, and elevated serum IgE levels (Khoo and Chan, Cutis 70(1):57–61, ). Lesions are usually located on the head and neck area (Kung et al., Pathology 16:39–44, ), and the disease is more common among Asians. In this study, we present a patient with a diffuse mass on his left side of the face from the parotid area to the temporal fossa, who is also suffering from nephrotic syndrome. A review of the literature is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]