| First-year oral health and dentistry student perceptions of future professional work. | |
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PMID: 22251341 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Objectives: To explore and compare how pre-doctoral dentistry (BDS) and oral health (BOH) students characterise their future professional work at the start and end of their first-year professional programme. Materials and methods: All BDS and BOH students were given an anonymous survey on the first and last days of their 2009 course. Start and end surveys (ES) were completed by 75% of BDS (51) and 83% of BOH students (33). This paper examines students' responses to two questions asking them to identify a situation characterising their future professional work and a professional difficulty they would likely encounter. Student responses were analysed inductively to identify key themes and confirm each theme's 'weighting' based on frequency of mention. Results: Students' answers to both questions revealed eight characterisations of future professional work involving the following: restorative tasks, patient-related concerns, patient emotion and behaviour, population-level/public health concerns, disease prevention and monitoring, communication, teamwork and self-management. In ES responses, BDS students emphasised restorative tasks as central to a dentist's work, and in both surveys perceived 'dealing with patients' as a central difficulty. In contrast, BOH students' answers to both questions revealed a patient care emphasis, and in both surveys, BOH students emphasised patient-related concerns as a likely difficulty. Conclusion: Bachelor of Dentistry students characterised their work as primarily interventive, and BOH students, as primarily patient-centred, communicative, and preventive. Whilst BDS students apparently valued restorative capabilities, BOH students valued the ability to ensure patient well-being. Further research will examine students' differing perceptions and how these change over time. |
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V Anderson; M Kang; L Foster Page |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2011-05-23 |
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Title: European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe Volume: 16 ISSN: 1600-0579 ISO Abbreviation: Eur J Dent Educ Publication Date: 2012 Feb |
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Created Date: 2012-01-18 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9712132 Medline TA: Eur J Dent Educ Country: Denmark |
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Languages: eng Pagination: e166-73 Citation Subset: D |
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© 2011 John Wiley & Sons A/S. |
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Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. |
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