Strides in Development of Medical Education

The Opinion of Dental Students of Kerman Iran Regarding their Achievement Level in Learning Objectives of Pediatric Dentistry Courses

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Azadeh Horri 1
Fatemeh Jahanimoghadam 1
Hamid Reza Poor Eslami 2
Fardin Najafpoor 3

1 Pediatrics Dentists, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Oral and Dental Diseases Research Center, School of Dentistry, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

2 Pediatrics Dentists, Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Oral and Dental Diseases Research Center, School of Dentistry, , Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

3 Dentist, School of Dentistry, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Abstract
  Background & Objective: Pediatric dentistry is one of the basic sciences related to oral health The aim of the present study is to assess the opinion of dental students of Kerman Iran concerning education in preclinical and clinical pediatrics in order to determined shortcomings and deficiencies   Methods: This crosssectional study was performed on students who choose practical pediatric dentistry courses Data collection was performed by a questionnaire which includes two parts demographic characteristics and educational aims of pediatric dentistry courses Students independent ttest ANOVA and chisquare were applied to analyze the data by SPSS software   Results: Results showed that 389% of students in the Pediatric1 course evaluated their satisfaction with achieving educational aims as quite satisfactory 472% as satisfactory and 139% as unsatisfactory   The Pediatric 2 and 3 courses were evaluated as quite satisfactory by 543% and 355% of students satisfactory by 257% and 581% and unsatisfactory by 20% and 65% respectively   Conclusion: In the Pediatric 3 course more than 90% of students evaluated their achievement of educational aims as quite satisfactory or satisfactory It seems that with increase in the number of courses passed the level of achievement of educational aims also increases

Keywords

Pediatric Dentistry
Learning objectives
Program evaluation
Students
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Strides in Development of Medical Education
Volume 11, Issue 3
2014
Pages 378-386

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