Clinical experience improves academic outcomes in dental Oral surgery education.

Autor: Thorpe ARDS; The School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia.; Nepean Centre for Oral Health, Nepean Hospital, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia., Hsu J; Private Dental Practice, Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia., Cox SC; The School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia.; The Nepean Centre for Oral Health, Nepean and Blue Mountains Local Health District, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe [Eur J Dent Educ] 2023 Nov; Vol. 27 (4), pp. 815-822. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Nov 17.
DOI: 10.1111/eje.12870
Abstrakt: Introduction: This paper aimed to determine if the level of a dental student's clinical experience in oral surgery influences the student's oral surgery academic outcomes.
Materials and Methods: The oral surgery clinical activity and academic outcomes for all students who completed their dental training in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 from the University of Sydney were analysed for correlation.
Results: The clinical activity performed by 313 students was recorded. There was a weak, but statistically significant, Pearson correlation between total dental extractions and academic outcomes (r = .243, p = <.001). The total number of dental extractions performed was the only statistically significant variable on academic outcomes with linear regression analysis (β = .227, p = .005; model R 2  = .077). The increase of a student's clinical experience from less than 45 to more than 65 dental extractions raised their oral surgery academic results by an average of 6.4%. There were no academic benefits to earlier clinical experience.
Conclusion: An increase in experience with dental extractions resulted in an increase in oral surgery academic outcomes, plateauing at 65 dental extractions. There was no academic advantage to dental student's having earlier clinical experience.
(© 2022 The Authors. European Journal of Dental Education published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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