Students' motivations in choosing a career in the health professions are of great interest for educators and admission committees, particularly in the field of dentistry. This study conducted in four private dental institutions in India was designed to investigate dental students' motivations in their choice of dentistry as a career and their perceptions regarding dentistry in India. A total of...

INTRODUCTION Dental anxiety is an important challenge for many patients and clinicians. It is thus of importance to know more about dental students' own experiences with dental anxiety and their understanding of dental anxiety. The aim was to investigate differences in dental anxiety levels between dental students, psychology students, and biology students at a Norwegian university. MATERIALS...

A cross-sectional study of a cohort of 197 clinical dental students in the four accredited dental schools in Nigeria was conducted to determine the sociodemographic characteristics of these dental students and their motives for the choice of dentistry. The results indicate that the number of female dental students in Nigeria is increasing, which reflects a trend well established in virtually al...

background: assessment of educational courses has a critical impact on quality improvement in all curricula. surveys aimed at alumni and graduating students may be useful for the evaluation of the program outcomes and revision. the aims of this study were to describe levels of competency of last year students of an iranian dental school in the major skills needed for a new dentist and to invest...

INTRODUCTION Evidence-based care helps dentists provide quality dental services to patients, and such care is based on the use of reliable information about treatment and patient care from a large number of papers, books, and published textbooks. This study aimed to determine the knowledge, awareness, and attitude of dentistry students towards evidence-based dentistry. METHODS In this cross-s...

PURPOSE The purpose of the work is to estimate the knowledge connected with the rules of the oral hygiene and its correlation with everyday habits among the students of Dental studies and Medical Studies at Medical School in Lublin and Polytechnics of Lublin. MATERIAL AND METHODS A survey was conducted among 483 students: 58 2nd-year and 88 5th-year students of dentistry, 97 2nd-year and 51 5...

background: internet is an important source of up-to-date dental information for delivering educational materials. the aim of this study was to determine the use of internet among dental students in yazd. methods: in this descriptive study, a questionnaire consisting of multiple choice questions was distributed to clinical undergraduate students studying at the school of dentistry at the shahid...

ôbjective: substance use among university students is a mental health concern. the aim of the current study was to assess prevalence and motivations for substance use in a sample of dentistry students at shiraz üniversity of medical sciences in ïran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on all (236) dentistry students. data was collected using a confidential multiple-choice questio...

OBJECTIVES To explore the current psychological problems among Iraqi medical and dentistry students using a General Health Questionnaire after 6 years of armed conflicts. METHODS This study was carried out in the Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Al-Mustansiriya University, Baghdad, Iraq from January to May 2009. A total of 440 medical and dentistry students were asked to compl...

Introduction Having awareness, interest, and positive attitude toward one's fields of study leads to the development of a compatibility between demands and expectations on the one hand and future career on the other hand. This study was carried out to determine the level of awareness, attitude, and interest of medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy students of Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical...