OBJECTIVE The current trend in medical education is to abandon the experience-based traditional model and embrace the competency-based education model (CBE). The basic principle behind CBE is standardization. The first step in standardization is to determine what students must know, what they must accomplish, and what attitude they should display, and the establishment of educational goals. One...

The aim of this study was to assess the attitude of dental students towards elderly patients. This increased the awareness of the need of the geriatric dental education within the undergraduate dental curriculum, which is the pressing need for today. The study was carried out at the de,Montmorency College of Dentistry, Lahore –Pakistan. It was a descriptive cross sectional study. Study sample c...

Students' reasons for choosing dentistry as a profession have not been well documented, especially in the developing countries. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the reasons why undergraduate Yemeni dental students who attended the University of Science and Technology (UST) chose dentistry as a career. A total of 300 out of 500 responses were recorded for this study, a response ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to study the knowledge and attitude of the pediatricians and family physicians on the dental counterpart, i.e. pediatric dentistry and the objective of this study were to determine what can improve the knowledge and attitude on pediatric dentistry and suggest certain methodologies to more participation of physicians in improving oral health. MATERIALS AND ...

The rapid development of the undergraduate major in public health over the past 15 years has led to a debate about the most appropriate framing for the degree. Should it be viewed as a liberal education degree (akin to academic disciplines such as psychology and political science) or as a professional training degree (akin to disciplines such as nursing and management)? This paper presents an o...

The basic purpose of teaching and training at undergraduate level is to prepare medical graduates to serve better at primary health care level. The patients with physical illness have concomitant emotional problems requiring professional handling, therefore teaching of psychiatry at undergraduate level becomes even more relevant and essential. The main aim of primary health care is to de-profes...

Background: The most common restorative materials used in dentistry are amalgam and composite. Amalgam is a controversial material owing to its mercury toxicity. With recent advances the properties of composite materials, there has been shift towards use. Objectives: aim this study was understand perceptions undergraduate dental students northern Saudi Arabian school about choice for restoring ...

A questionnaire addressing factors that affect career choices by pediatric dentistry advanced education students was mailed to 52 training programs. Two hundred and thirty-two completed surveys from 45 responding programs were returned. The responses were analyzed for women and men and citizens and noncitizens. Concern for spouse career opportunities affected women's personal career decisions s...

Journal of Dental Education ■ Volume 67, Number 6 This article is the first in this new section, which consists of submissions authored solely by undergraduate dental and allied dental students. Articles in this section may cover the entire spectrum of academic dentistry from clinical and educational research to student perceptions of educational methodologies and critical issues in dental educ...