Creating virtual 3-dimensional models for teaching pre-clinical tooth preparation: Students' usages and perceptions
| Autor: | M. J. Metz, J. C. Chou, N. Choi, B. T. Harris, J. R. Charette, Wei-Shao Lin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Virtual model
Male Models Anatomic medicine.medical_specialty 020205 medical informatics Teaching Materials media_common.quotation_subject Students Dental 3d model 02 engineering and technology Dental education Education 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine Perception Surveys and Questionnaires 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering medicine Humans General Dentistry Education Dental media_common Response rate (survey) Medical education Virtual Reality Tooth Preparation 030206 dentistry Test (assessment) Exact test Endocrinology Denture Partial Removable Female Smartphone Construct (philosophy) Psychology Procedures and Techniques Utilization |
| Zdroj: | European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe. 22(3) |
| ISSN: | 1600-0579 |
| Popis: | Purpose This research aimed to evaluate the students' usage and perceptions of using smartphones in their general dental education and learning tooth preparation with the individually designed virtual 3D instructional models in the pre-clinical removable partial denture course. Materials and methods Second-year dental students were asked to voluntarily participate in a survey to investigate their demographic information, general usages of smartphones, perception of smartphones usage in dental education (construct 1) and perception of individually designed virtual 3D instructional models (construct 2). Students' responses of general usages of the smartphones were compared with their demographic and educational backgrounds using nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test (for age) and Fisher's exact test (for sex, race and educational background). The sums of scores of the construct 1 and construct 2 were tested for associations with student's demographic and educational backgrounds using the Pearson product-moment correlation (for age), t test (for sex and educational background) or one-way ANOVA F test (for race) (α = .05). Results A 75% response rate (N = 90) was achieved in this study, and all 90 participants owned smartphones. Students' responses to general usages of the smartphones were not significantly influenced by their demographic background. For the construct 1, more than 73% of participants responded either agree or strongly agree to the usage of smartphones in general dental education and pre-clinical setting; however, only 49% of participants responded the same way in the clinical setting. For the construct 2, 48 of 90 participants viewed the 3D models, and more than 73% of these 48 participants responded either agree or strongly agree to the usage of the 3D models in the pre-clinical course. Student's demographic background did not have significant influence on the sums of scores of the construct 1 and construct 2. Conclusions Within the limitations of this study, high usages and ownerships of smartphones were found amongst the students surveyed. The individually designed virtual 3D instructional models as supplemental teaching materials in the pre-clinical course were perceived positively by the students. |
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