Ergonomics: Important Aspect for Dental Students

Ergonomics for the dental assistant.

Recently, ergonomics has become a popular term. The term has been used with most professions, but increasingly in the dental profession. When you hear ergonomics, many meanings may come to mind. According to Pollack (1989), ergonomics is a discipline that studies workers and their relationship to their occupational environment. This could include many different concepts such as how we position ...

Surgery for Dental Students

Effect of working characteristics and taught ergonomics on the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders amongst dental students

BACKGROUND Work-related musculoskeletal disorders are one of the main occupational health hazards affecting dental practitioners. This study was conducted to assess the prevalence of Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorder (WMSD) amongst dental students. Possible correlations with the working environment and ergonomics taught in Malaysian dental schools were also sought. METHODS Five dental sch...

Important Aspect of Knowledge Management

In this paper it is explained what Knowledge Management (KM) is and why it will play an important role in the future. This implies that KM is indeed more than just the sophisticated use of information systems or distributed databases for complex tasks. With the introduction of the Maurer-Tochtermann model for KM and the description of the basic elements of new techniques, it can be demonstrated...

Ergonomics for children: An educational program for physical education students

We present an overview of the “Ergonomics in the life-cycle” curriculum that has been delivered over the past nine years to Physical Education students at the Kibbutzim Teachers College of Education in Israel. A large part of the course is aimed at training the students to incorporate ergonomic subjects into the physical education programs in the elementary and the high schools, as well as in t...