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Title:	Undergraduate endodontic teaching in southeast asia region and Malaysian dental students reflection on endodontic learning
Supervisor:	Safura Anita Baharin, Dr.
Keywords:	Endodontic Dissertations, Academic -- Malaysia
Issue Date:	2019
Description:	Each dental school has set up its own curriculum for endodontic teaching, which enables students to acquire predictable quality knowledge and skills after graduation. The students' perception and the levels of confidence in endodontic treatment were the key components in the quality monitoring of academic programme, as they provide valuable feedback to improve the curriculum. This study was aimed to evaluate the current endodontic curriculum for undergraduate teaching among dental schools in the Southeast Asia region and to identify the Malaysian students' experience, perception, and self-confidence level when performing the endodontic treatment. An online questionnaire was sent to the Head of the Endodontics Department (HODs) of 29 selected dental schools in the Southeast Asia region to determine their curriculum for undergraduate endodontic education. In addition, a set of online questionnaires using both scaled answers and open-ended questions were distributed to the final year dental students from 10 Malaysian dental schools to assess their experience, perception, and self – confidence levels. Completed questionnaires were returned from the HODs with a 57% response rate. There was a considerable similarity among the participating dental schools on the content of clinical teaching, with most of the dental schools advocating preflaring technique, use of sodium hypochlorite as an irrigant, calcium hydroxide as an intracanal medicament and cold lateral compaction technique as the main method of obturation. Meanwhile, completed questionnaires were returned from Malaysian students with a response rate of 67%. The upper central incisor was the first endodontically treated tooth (34.3%) and 46.8% of students claimed it as easy. Most students considered the RCT to be a difficult procedure (p<0.05), with 41.8% claiming that they had difficulty determining their working length accurately. In addition, teaching quality and clinical requirements have been assessed as satisfactory. The highest levels of confidence were observed in the placement of the dental dam (4.22±0.672) and administration of LA (4.19±0.683). Whilst, the lowest level of confidence was associated with locating all the canals in a multirooted tooth (2.97±0.815). Generally, there were no significant differences shown for students' self-confidence in performing RCT among the Malaysian universities. In conclusion, the overall endodontic curriculum among the Southeast Asian schools was comparable to each other with minor variations in the timing of preclinical practice, pre-endo treatment preparation, and endodontic personnel. In addition, most students suggested that increase in the number of clinical sessions would improve endodontic teaching in the future.,Doctor Of Clinical Dentistry Endodontology
Pages:	57
Call Number:	9 Tesis Cd WU21. S623u 2019
Publisher:	UKM, Kuala Lumpur
Appears in Collections:	Faculty of Pharmacy / Fakulti Farmasi

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