Students' self-confidence and perceived quality of prosthodontics education: A study in the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the University of Porto.
education quality
removable prosthodontics
self-confidence
undergraduate students
Journal
European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe
ISSN: 1600-0579
Titre abrégé: Eur J Dent Educ
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9712132
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2020
Aug 2020
Historique:
received:
21
11
2019
revised:
21
04
2020
accepted:
27
04
2020
pubmed:
4
5
2020
medline:
22
7
2020
entrez:
4
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Oral rehabilitation with removable dentures (RDs) is still a viable choice for the edentulous population. Fostering students' confidence in prosthodontic procedures should be a major concern in dental schools. This study has three purposes: (a) to measure the self-reported confidence levels of undergraduate dental students when performing removable prosthodontic treatments; (b) to evaluate the students' perceived quality of removable prosthodontics education; and (c) to assess the students' suggestions to improve removable prosthodontics education. An anonymous questionnaire was delivered to third-, fourth- and fifth-year students of the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the University of Porto (FMDUP) (n = 176). Data from quantitative questions were statistically analysed with IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows (V.24.0), whilst qualitative data were clustered into topics and analysed in Excel. With a 100% response rate, most students felt "confident" and "very confident" in RD clinical procedures. Overall, the 5th-year students had higher confidence than 4th-year ones, except when surveying diagnostic casts. Our findings also revealed that students considered the removable prosthodontics education "Good" and "Very good," and their main suggestions were related to increasing the time allocated to clinical practice. Students' confidence in carrying out removable prosthodontic procedures grew as they progressed through the course. Overall, the students' evaluation of the quality of prosthodontics education was positive, and their main suggestion to improve their confidence levels was increasing the clinical experience.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
559-571Informations de copyright
© 2020 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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