objective: numerous studies have emphasized on the importance of developing an ideal educational system for high-quality dental education. the present study sought to assess the perception of dental students on operative dentistry education in department of restorative dentistry, shahid beheshti dental school, tehran, iran.   methods: in this descriptive cross-sectional study, 220 students were...

Objectives The aim of this research was to examine the reasons for the need to change and bring about integration in the dental curriculum in Iran and worldwide. Methods The qualitative method was used in this research. The real experiences of some reliable universities over the world and in Iran were studied on the necessity to change the dental curriculum and the integrated curriculum throug...

Urgent dental care education is a critical aspect of the D.D.S. curriculum as dental students must be adequately prepared to face real-world dental emergency challenges in practice. Dental emergency education is likely the most variable component of the dental curriculum. To assess potential differences in emergency education, a sixteen-question survey was sent to directors of urgent care of al...

The implementation of an implant dental curriculum in U.S. dental schools has been consistently increasing from 33 percent in 1974 to 97 percent in 2004. Among these, only 51 percent have clinical components implemented. A survey of students conducted in 2004 at New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) showed an inadequacy in clinical implant restoration experience by graduation. This p...

BACKGROUND Globalization of the professions has become a necessity among schools and universities across the world. It has affected the medical and dental professions in terms of curriculum design and student and patient needs. In Japan, where medicine and dentistry are taught mainly in the Japanese language, profession-based courses in English, known as Medical English and Dental English, have...

An understanding of international dental education systems is critical for the education of foreign-trained dentists in U.S. dental programs. However, there is little information on this topic. This article provides information regarding 1) dental history, 2) dental school system, 3) curriculum/examination at dental school, and 4) dental licensure in India and Japan. There are 185 dental school...

based on the current emphasis on competency-based education, as a part of need assessment phase of dental curriculum revision in iran, in the present study the dental graduates' perspective concerning the minimum competency requirements for an iranian general dentist has been investigated.based on the three available major competency documents in the literature a questionnaire was developed in ...

objective: predoctoral dental implant education is included in dental school teaching curricula in most of the developed and some developing countries; however, it was not introduced into undergraduate curriculum of some countries and iranian dental schools. our purpose was to investigate the status of the predoctoral dental implant education of dental schools in the world. materials and method...

The current dental curriculum in China was developed from the system in the Soviet Union in the 1950s. This curriculum is outdated and must be reformed to keep pace with the developments of modern dental education. The new dental educational system should be customized to China's needs: care for a large population with poor overall oral health, operating within a government-owned, centralized h...