IADR Abstract Archives
Evaluation of dental student's perception about professional skills.
Objectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate undergraduate dental student's perception about professional skills.
Methods: This research used the dynamic mixed method. 208 participants of dental students from first to final years were included through the purposive method. Participation was entirely voluntary. A questionnaire was formed through the literature review and validated by three experts. A pilot study was done before the circulation of the questionnaire among the targeted population. Thematic analysis was done for the qualitative analysis and IBM SPSS version 26 software was used for the quantitative analysis. Themes and subthemes were generated through coding. A P-value of ≤0.05 will be set for statistical significance. Frequencies of assessment of professional skills were calculated. Approval was obtained by the Ethical Review Committee of CMH LMC.
Results: Findings for a total of 208 dental students, 63% agreed that their instructors taught them professional skills. However, when we consider the evaluation of professional skills, the responses were flip side. The overall frequency of students’ responses showed that there is less evaluation of the professional skills of undergraduate dental students. Themes and codes generated related to the evaluation of professional skills are factors that increase the performance of students, measures to improve professional skills, factors that improve the evalaution system, and factors that improve the development and evaluation of professional skills at the institutional level.
Conclusions: Teaching professional skills are part of the curriculum in the present era. Institutes are teaching professional skills, on the other hand not evaluating these skills. There is a requirement for improvement in the evaluation system of professional skills of undergraduate dental students.
Methods: This research used the dynamic mixed method. 208 participants of dental students from first to final years were included through the purposive method. Participation was entirely voluntary. A questionnaire was formed through the literature review and validated by three experts. A pilot study was done before the circulation of the questionnaire among the targeted population. Thematic analysis was done for the qualitative analysis and IBM SPSS version 26 software was used for the quantitative analysis. Themes and subthemes were generated through coding. A P-value of ≤0.05 will be set for statistical significance. Frequencies of assessment of professional skills were calculated. Approval was obtained by the Ethical Review Committee of CMH LMC.
Results: Findings for a total of 208 dental students, 63% agreed that their instructors taught them professional skills. However, when we consider the evaluation of professional skills, the responses were flip side. The overall frequency of students’ responses showed that there is less evaluation of the professional skills of undergraduate dental students. Themes and codes generated related to the evaluation of professional skills are factors that increase the performance of students, measures to improve professional skills, factors that improve the evalaution system, and factors that improve the development and evaluation of professional skills at the institutional level.
Conclusions: Teaching professional skills are part of the curriculum in the present era. Institutes are teaching professional skills, on the other hand not evaluating these skills. There is a requirement for improvement in the evaluation system of professional skills of undergraduate dental students.