Possibilities and limits of a student‐led, near‐peer mentoring initiative for first‐year dental students

Health law and medical ethics are both integral parts of undergraduate medical curricula. The literature has addressed the importance of teaching law and ethics separately in medical school settings, yet there have been few descriptions of teaching law and ethics together in the same curriculum. A combined program in law and ethics required for first-year medical and dental students was developed and implemented by Professor Joseph (Jay) M. Healey, Jr., at the University of Connecticut Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine from 1975 until his death in 1993. This Article describes the thirty-hour, interactive, case-based course he created. The course, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Medicine and Dental Medicine (LEA), has continued after Jay 's death, and is one of his many legacies to us. LEA consists of fifty-six actual and hypothetical cases written by Jay from which basic legal and ethical principles are extracted by participants and reinforced by instructors.

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Trends in First-Year Dental Students’ Information Technology Knowledge and Use: Results from a U.S. Dental School in 2009, 2012, and 2017

Journal of Dental Education ◽

10.21815/jde.018.135 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 82 (12) ◽

pp. 1287-1295 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mark Scarbecz ◽

Edward J. DeSchepper

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Dental Students ◽

Dental School ◽

First Year ◽

Technology Knowledge

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Efficacy of podcasts as a supplementary teaching aid and assessment of its perceived utility in first year dental students

Australasian Medical Journal ◽

10.21767/amj.2013.1786 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 6 (9) ◽

Author(s):

Shivananda Kalludi

Keyword(s):

Dental Students ◽

First Year ◽

Perceived Utility ◽

Teaching Aid

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Dental Anxiety and Its Possible Effects on Caries Prevalence Among Group of Dental Students In Kathmandu Medical College

Journal of Nepalgunj Medical College ◽

10.3126/jngmc.v17i2.31661 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 78-81

Author(s):

Deepak Kumar Roy ◽

Punam Basnet Dixit ◽

Siddharth Ghimire ◽

Roshan Kumar Roy ◽

Aashish Pandey ◽

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Keyword(s):

Oral Health ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Dental Anxiety ◽

Dental Students ◽

World Health ◽

First Year ◽

Caries Prevalence ◽

Medical College ◽

Dental Hospital ◽

The Mean

Introduction: The prevalence of high dental anxiety varies from 2% to 30% worldwide depending on the study population, the methods applied, and the cut-off scores used. There is strong evidence that dental anxiety is associated with dental attendance; it has been reported that individuals with higher dental anxiety tend to visit the dentist irregularly, which in turn may lead to deterioration in oral health. Studies have demonstrated that dental anxiety is associated with poor self-reported and clinically assigned oral health, more decayed and missing teeth, fewer filled teeth and worse periodontal health. Dental students are the future dental doctors who will be dealing with fearful patients in future. Knowing the facts on dental anxiety will have positive impact while treating and dealing such patients. Objectives: The overall objectives of the study were to assess level of anxiety and its possible effect on prevalence of caries among dental students studying at Kathmandu medical college and Dental hospital. Specific: To access the level of anxiety among dental students of different years (from first year to final year) along it was further focused to analyse the level of anxiety among male and female dental students. Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted to choose a random convenient sample. The data were collected from dental students of first year to final year studying at Kathmandu medical college dental hospital–KMCDH. A structured questionnaire based on modified dental anxiety scale was used to collect the data. Patients were examined for dental caries prevalence using decay, missing and filled teeth (DMFT) index according to World Health Organisation guidelines. Results: The highest MDAS was seen among the younger batches and the mean values for MDAS declined with higher batch of dental students. The mean dental anxiety score for males was 8.9 and 15.5 for females. The difference was statistically significant the most fearful stimulus in dental clinic for both genders was local anesthetic injection, followed by drilling of teeth. Conclusion: Dental anxiety remains a significant problem for many patients of both gender and different age groups of examined students. Dental anxiety has a negative effect on oral health status by increasing the prevalence of decayed teeth. Further studies should be carried out using large random samples before generalizing this conclusion.

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