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How Well Prepared are Dental Students and New Graduates in Pakistan-A Cross-Sectional National Study

Muhammad Qasim Javed
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Shazia Nawabi
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Usman Anwer Bhatti
,
Sundus Atique
,
Mustafa Hussein AlAttas
,
Ayman M Abulhamael
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Daniel Zahra
,
Kamran Ali
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Version 1 : Received: 3 January 2023 / Approved: 4 January 2023 / Online: 4 January 2023 (08:48:49 CET)

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Javed, M.Q.; Nawabi, S.; Bhatti, U.A.; Atique, S.; AlAttas, M.H.; Abulhamael, A.M.; Zahra, D.; Ali, K. How Well Prepared Are Dental Students and New Graduates in Pakistan-A Cross-Sectional National Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 1506. Javed, M.Q.; Nawabi, S.; Bhatti, U.A.; Atique, S.; AlAttas, M.H.; Abulhamael, A.M.; Zahra, D.; Ali, K. How Well Prepared Are Dental Students and New Graduates in Pakistan-A Cross-Sectional National Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 1506.

Abstract

The transition from undergraduate dental student to the actual practicing dentist is a crucial phase and ensuring the preparedness of graduates for the complexity and demands of contempo-rary dental practice is a challenging task. This study aimed to evaluate the self-perceived prepar-edness of undergraduate dental students and house officers in the dental colleges of Pakistan. Cross-sectional national study was planned to collect the information from dental students and new graduates in Pakistan. The pre-validated Dental Undergraduates Preparedness Assessment Scale (DU-PAS) was used. Purposive sampling technique was utilized to recruit house officers and undergraduate dental students from 27 dental schools in Pakistan. The data analysis was car-ried out using the R statistical environment for Windows (R Core Team, 2015). The total of 862 responses with 642 females and 219 males were analyzed in the study. Overall, clinical skills score was 30.56+9.08 and score for soft skills was 30.54+10.6. The mean age of the participants was 23.42+1.28. Deficiencies were reported in various soft skills and clinical skills attributes.The results highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of dental students and new graduates in Pakistani den-tal institutions. The findings may be used to further develop and strengthen teaching and training of dental students in Pakistan.

Keywords

Clinical Skills; Clinical Training; Competency; Cross-sectional Studies; Dental Education; Dentistry; Self-perception.

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Dentistry and Oral Surgery

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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