Perceptions and challenges of a first-year dental student – A cross-sectional study
| Autor: | Manhar Kaur Shinh, Rajesh Kshirsagar, Ridhi Narang, Praveena Venkatesh Kulkarni, Amanish Singh, Harjupinder Kaur |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Indian Journal of Dental Research, Vol 33, Iss 2, Pp 212-215 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0970-9290 1998-3603 |
| DOI: | 10.4103/ijdr.ijdr_402_21 |
| Popis: | Introduction: Undergraduate dental training is demanding and rigorous, unaware students face a lot of challenges after entering the course. Thus, the study aims to find out from a dental sophomore the challenges they face during the first year of dental school. Methodology: An e-questionnaire study was conducted on 932 second-year Bachelor of Dental Surgery students of India. The questions help us gauge problems and hurdles faced by a dental sophomore like information related to difficulty levels, laborious nature and so on. Chi-square test is to find out relativity and association between the variables. Results: Pre-clinical prosthodontics was found the most laborious and a gender-wise significant difference (P < 0.01) was noted amongst females (437, 71.06%) and males (157, 49.53%). Conclusion: This study highlighted that students are usually unaware about the course, the type of content reading, learning, laborious nature of practical work and so on. |
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