Attitudes and perceptions of dental students towards artificial intelligence
Autor: | Emir Yuzbasioglu |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice 020205 medical informatics Attitude of Health Personnel Turkish media_common.quotation_subject Students Dental 02 engineering and technology Dental education Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Basic knowledge Artificial Intelligence Surveys and Questionnaires Perception 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Humans media_common Response rate (survey) business.industry Mean age 030206 dentistry General Medicine language.human_language language Female Artificial intelligence Psychology business |
Zdroj: | Journal of Dental Education. 85:60-68 |
ISSN: | 1930-7837 0022-0337 |
Popis: | Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a burning topic and use of AI in our day-to-day life has increased exponentially. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the attitudes and perceptions of Turkish dental students towards AI and to provide information about their opinions to use of AI in dentistry. Methods A 22-question survey was distributed through Google Forms to all dental students at 9 Turkish dental schools in March 2019. It consisted of various sections aiming to evaluate the dental students' knowledge and attitudes toward AI and possible applications in dentistry. Respondents' anonymity was ensured. Results A total of 1103 students (650 female, 453 male; mean age was 21.36 ± 1.93 years) responded to the questionnaire for a 21.69% response rate. Of these, about 48.40% had basic knowledge about AI technologies and 10.6% stated that they had no information sources about AI. 85.70% agreed that dentistry would be revolutionized by AI but 28.60% did not agree that AI could replace themselves in the near future. In addition, 74.60% and 79.80% of agreed on topics about AI to be included in undergraduate and postgraduate dental education, respectively. Conclusions Although participants have insufficient knowledge of AI, they are willing to improve their knowledge in this field. Participants shared an optimistic views and thought that AI will have a positive impact on dental future practice. Follow-up surveys and multinational studies should be conducted to further explore these issues. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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