Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of Iranian medical and dental students in thinking critically and to assess their ability in using definite components of critical thinking (CT). Methods: Multistage cluster sampling was utilized to recruit 125 preclinical (1st, 2nd and 3rd year of study) students in Yazd Shaheed Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in Yazd, I...

BACKGROUND The training of dental students in the management of medical emergencies is of utmost importance as they may encounter some of these emergencies at some point in their career. AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the medical emergency education in a Nigerian Dental School. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out among 124 final year dental...

Interprofessional collaboration has become a critical component of accreditation standards in dentistry and medicine. This article reports on implementation in an academic setting of a prenatal oral health program (pOHP) that addresses coordinated care, accreditation standards, and new clinical practice guidelines. The pOHP is an educational intervention for third-year medical students, residen...

Dear Dr. Alvares: Many low-income families face the problem of not being able to support the medical and dental needs of their children. Resources such as health fairs and school visits are often the only means by which parents are able to provide medical and dental care for their kids. The UCLA School of Dentistry joined forces with a UCLA undergraduate club, the Predental Student Outreach Pro...

AIM Sport-related dental injuries are a growing concern worldwide. Regardless of how minor they may appear, some of them can lead to traumas which have a negative impact on quality of life, producing psychological and social discomfort. In view of the widespread lack of knowledge with regard to first aid procedures in cases of dental trauma, we would like to report the current state of knowledg...

ethics has become the bridge between morals, values, patient needs and effective treatment. medical ethics has a 2500 year history in medical education, but  it has only been in the last 30 years that it has come to terms of formal inclusion in medical curricula(1) .the purpose of contemporary dental education is that graduates will be competent in clinic and patient care with high level of  kn...