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The Perceptions and Challenges of a First Year Dental Student : a Cross-Sectional Study
Objectives: 1. To study the student's perception with regard to dentistry
2. To study the student's perception with regard to the curriculum.
3. To study the student's perception about the teaching methodology.
4. To study the types of problems faced by students of first year BDS .
5. To study the percieved effects of the problems faced on their academic performance .
This study will assist in understanding fears and internal complexes faced by dental students related to the profession .
Methods: Methodology: An e- questionnaire study was conducted on 932 second year Bachelor of Dental Surgery students studying in various dental colleges of India. The questions help us gauge problems and hurdles faced by a dental sophomore like information related to difficulty levels, laborious nature, attention span required for various subjects, however, the two subjective questions inquired from the students their suggestions and view - points regarding how first year of dentistry be made into a more pleasant learning experience keeping in mind the basics of the academics. Chi- square test to find out relativity and association between the variables.
Results: Results: Pre-clinical Prosthodontics was found the most laborious and a gender wise significant difference (p<0.01) was noted amongst female (437, 71.06%) and males (157, 49.53%). Opting for dentistry as a choice of career was significantly influenced by a dentist in the immediate family (p=0.009).
Conclusions: . Conclusion: This study highlighted that students are usually unaware about the course, the type of content reading, learning, laborious nature of practical work etc. Therefore, students that are in the pre medical program and their parents need more awareness on the subject of dentistry before they chose it as their career.
2. To study the student's perception with regard to the curriculum.
3. To study the student's perception about the teaching methodology.
4. To study the types of problems faced by students of first year BDS .
5. To study the percieved effects of the problems faced on their academic performance .
This study will assist in understanding fears and internal complexes faced by dental students related to the profession .
Methods: Methodology: An e- questionnaire study was conducted on 932 second year Bachelor of Dental Surgery students studying in various dental colleges of India. The questions help us gauge problems and hurdles faced by a dental sophomore like information related to difficulty levels, laborious nature, attention span required for various subjects, however, the two subjective questions inquired from the students their suggestions and view - points regarding how first year of dentistry be made into a more pleasant learning experience keeping in mind the basics of the academics. Chi- square test to find out relativity and association between the variables.
Results: Results: Pre-clinical Prosthodontics was found the most laborious and a gender wise significant difference (p<0.01) was noted amongst female (437, 71.06%) and males (157, 49.53%). Opting for dentistry as a choice of career was significantly influenced by a dentist in the immediate family (p=0.009).
Conclusions: . Conclusion: This study highlighted that students are usually unaware about the course, the type of content reading, learning, laborious nature of practical work etc. Therefore, students that are in the pre medical program and their parents need more awareness on the subject of dentistry before they chose it as their career.