Evaluation of clinical skills in Qazvin faculty of dentistry through the students and teachers' points of view

ABSTRACT

Reviewing our present educational discipline will allow us to design a useful plan for improving the efficiency of dental education group. To determine the present practical training through the opinions of the dentistry students and teachers. In this descriptive- periodical study, 60 students and 24 teachers filled a questionnaire. The first questionnaire dealt with the demographic information of respondents and next seven with educational planning, the duration of training, equipments, facilities and effectiveness in the training sites. This study revealed that the students had evaluated the planning of training courses as medium [43/3%,], the participating in group talking as weak [63/3%], but their lecturers believed the planning of training course to be good [50%] and the student's intergroup activities as weak [46%]. The efficiency of the pediatric dentistry [52%], oral medicine ['50%,],Radiology, oral pathology and operative dentistry wards [48/3%] were assessed good, the same of prosthodontics [50%], oral surgery [48/3%], periodontics [60%] and endodontics wards [43/3%,] were assessed medium and of the orthodontics ward [50%] as weak by students. Regarding the results, the necessity of marking some revision in practical education of dentistry and increasing dental equipments and facilities in practical sites, seems evident