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...

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...

conclusions based on the students perspective, the most important aspect of effective teaching was teaching method. having the ability in the subject clear transmission, being fair and clear communication were the priorities in each aspect. results in the field of knowledge, teaching method, power of communication and individual characteristics the priorities were subject predomination with ave...

background: dental students’ attendance in community fields prepares them to get involved in oral health promotion programs.  the aim of this study was to evaluate dental students` attitude toward education in community dentistry fields at an iranian dental school. methods: 125 dental students participated in a questionnaire survey.  the questionnaire included questions regarding students’ back...

Admission to dental school in Flanders 2 Abstract Dental education in Europe faces enormous challenges. One deals with the admission to dental school. Although admission procedures vary considerably across Europe, a characteristic of some systems is that the same procedure is used across students who will ultimately pursue different majors (medical or dental). This is based on the assumptions t...

objectives: a public health course has an important role in theundergraduate education of pharmacy and dentistry in termsof emphasizing preventive care. the purpose of this study is toevaluate the views of pharmacy and dentistry students on a publichealth course and preventive health care.methods: 173 students enrolled at ege university, facultiesof pharmacy and dentistry completed a swot (stre...

The purpose of this paper is to present an outline of student's practice of interviewing simulated patients at behavioral science in dentistry. This practice was initiated as part of a newly introduced behavioral science course at our school of dentistry, to enable students to acquire communication skills, comprehensive understanding, and a proper attitude vis-à-vis patients. Students as well a...

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...

BACKGROUND The present study aimed to examine the impact of "curricula for undergraduate education in oriental medicine (OM)/complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)" on student awareness of OM. A questionnaire survey was conducted involving the Nagasaki University School of Dentistry (NUSD), a university that implements education in OM as part of its undergraduate curriculum, and Tokyo Den...