Motivations to Choose Dentistry among Dental Students of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in 2013 (original) (raw)
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2014
Motive, University, Students, Iran Introduction: Our aim was to evaluate factors affecting the choices made by first-year dental and medical students in Tabriz University of Medical Sci ences, Iran. Methods: The subjects in the present descriptive cross-sectional study consisted of 104 first- year dental and medical students in the University in 2012-2013. A questionnaire was given to the students, which included demographic data and prioritization of motives. In designing the question naire, nine items were taken into account including income, social status, owning a private office, serving the community, feasibility of working with the hands, self-regulation of working hours, an interest in the field, recom mendation by the family and communication, and contact with community members. Data were analyzed with the Mann-Whitney U test using SPSS. Results: Enjoying a high social status was the most important factor (94.2%) in choosing dentistry as a major by dental students. An intere...
International Journal of Preventive and Clinical Dental Research
Introduction: Dentists in today's world play an important role in society as professional health care workers. In developing countries, dentistry as a profession is limited to a small percentage of community and still has to go a long way. Aim: To determine the motivation and perception of undergraduate and postgraduate dental students among dental colleges in Udaipur city. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among all dental students (N = 600). A self-administered questionnaire consisted of demographic information and questions regarding motivation and perception. A total of approximately 600 students were enrolled at the time of study. Further elimination was done to maintain approximately equal representation of students of each year. Thus, a total of 350 students were randomly selected from all years of dental course to keep minimal bias. Chi-square test was used for statistical analysis. Results: After statistical analysis, the difference was found to be nonsignificant (p > 0.5) in three questions while in other questions the difference was significant (p < 0.5). Conclusion: This study concludes that job security, improving esthetics, self-employment, money factor, flexibility in working hours, and professional status are the motivating and perceptive factors. So, it may be a good idea to establish educational programs in dental colleges to educate students on other aspects of dentistry.
Evaluation of The Factors Affecting the Choice of Profession of The Dental Students
Indonesian Journal of Dental Medicine
Background: Researches on motivation of students to choose dentistry as a profession has been conducted for many years. Students may choose to become dentists for reasons such as serving, being independent, working with their hands, gaining prestige, and financial security. Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate the factors in the career preferences of dental students, their expectations and opinions in the education process. Methods: 1,007 participants who answered the web-based questionnaire were included in this study. Obtained data were analysed using SPSS version 23.0 (Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). The Independent t test was used for intergroup comparisons in the data were normally distributed. Variables in more than two groups were compared using the one-way ANOVA test. Statistical significance was accepted as p<0.05 in all analyses. Results: A total of 1007 dentistry students, 370 (36.7%) male and 637 (63.3%) female, with a mean age of 21.15 ± 1.96 participated in the su...
Motivation to Follow a Career in Dentistry of Students in Three South-East European Countries
Acta Stomatologica Croatica
Objective: To investigate and compare the factors that motivated students to study dentistry in countries with similar background (Albania, Croatia and the Republic of Northern Macedonia) and to assess whether or not their motivation changed during time. Material and methods: In 2014/2015, cross-sectional studies were conducted in state funded dental schools in Tirana (Albania), Zagreb (Croatia) and Skopje (North Macedonia) to assess student views on their career motivation. All dental students from the first, third and final years of study were invited to participate. The participation was voluntary and anonymous. A five-item questionnaire was translated into languages of the participating countries. Ethics approval was granted by the Ethics Committee of the University of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Skopje. The Chi square test was used to test if there were statistically significant differences in answers between students in 3 countries, furthermore between years of the study. Results: The total number of respondents was 739 (319 in Tirana, 211 in Zagreb and 208 in Skopje) The differences in the answers between the first-year students from all three countries were statistically significant (χ 2 =82.65; p<.01). The most striking answer was to the question on parents' pressure to study dentistry, which was far more frequent in Tirana (up to 27.7%). A "positive image" was the most frequent response from students from Zagreb (up to 79.7%), but it declined from the first to the final year in Skopje. There were also significant differences between the schools within the 3 rd and final years of study. Conclusions: A positive image of dental profession was the main reason for students studying dentistry at all three schools; as many as 97% of the students of the final year in Croatia, a member of the European Union (EU). In the two non-EU countries (Albania, North Macedonia) it seemed that dental profession does not have such good status and student expectations are not being fulfilled, especially in Skopje (up to 33.9% willing to change their vocation and up to 64.5% lost their motivation to study) One of the strategies to improve the situation could be to include more clinical practice and to better organize the study.
Research and Development in Medical Education, 2013
Introduction: Our aim was to evaluate factors affecting the choices made by first-year dental and medical students in Tabriz University of Medical Sci ences, Iran. Methods: The subjects in the present descriptive cross-sectional study consisted of 104 firstyear dental and medical students in the University in 2012-2013. A questionnaire was given to the students, which included demographic data and prioritization of motives. In designing the question naire, nine items were taken into account including income, social status, owning a private office, serving the community, feasibility of working with the hands, self-regulation of working hours, an interest in the field, recom mendation by the family and communication, and contact with community members. Data were analyzed with the Mann-Whitney U test using SPSS. Results: Enjoying a high social status was the most important factor (94.2%) in choosing dentistry as a major by dental students. An interest in the field (88.2%) was the second factor in their selection of dentistry. Recommenda tion by the family and serving the community with a frequency of 50% and contact with community members with a frequency of 51% were the least important in choosing dentistry. A high social status (75%) was the most im portant factor in choosing medicine as a major by medical students. A high income (73.1%) was the second factor in choosing medicine for them. Serv ing the community with 43.1% and the feasibility of working with the hands with 28.9% were the least important factors in choosing medicine. Conclu sion: Dentistry and medicine are professions that still enjoy a high social status and most students choose these majors in order to attain such status. Differences in motives behind choosing a major by students of these two fields are related to the nature of the professions.
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Motivation and Attitude of Newly Inducted Dental Students Towards Dentistry as a Profession
Journal of Medical Sciences
Objective: To determine the motives and attitude of newly admitted first year dental students towards dentistry as a profession at Khyber College of Dentistry, Peshawar Material and methods: A cross-sectional study with questionnaire consisting of 12 questions regarding decision making for choosing dentistry as a profession, motives and attitude were given to newly admitted 50 students of first year at Khyber College of Dentistry, Peshawar. The study was done at the start of session 2020-2021. The data collected was statistically analyzed using Microsoft word 2016 and IBM SPSS Statistics Version 22.0 Results: Most of the students were internally motivated for selecting dentistry as a profession, 60% of the students didn’t have any relatives in dentistry, 30% thought that it is an honorable profession, 30% thought that it is a financially good profession and 35% selected dentistry because of independent practice Conclusion: Independent practice, financially good profession, honor in ...
Future Dental Journal, 2018
The study aimed to evaluate factors affecting the choice of dentistry as a career as well as the choice of future specialty among senior dental students registered in British University of Egypt (BUE), during the academic year 2016/2017. A questionnaire form was downloaded from the students learning forum (e-learning), the students were then asked to fill up the form and hand it in during class. Results: Out of 200, 181 students responded to the survey, with a response rate of 90.5%. 67% of the students chose dentistry according to their own will, 20.1% due to family pressure, while only 12.8% were due to their high school grades. Fixed prosthodontics was the most favored specialty among the students who aimed for further postgraduate education (23.8%) while endodontics ranked as the second most popular specialty (22.7%) and Oral surgery came in the third rank (11%). There was a statistically significant difference between males and females in choosing fixed prosthodontics as well as oral pathology (p-value ≤ 0.001). Multiple regression analysis showed that "High school category" showed statistical significance in the prediction, p < 0.05 Conclusion: 67% of our respondents think they were given sufficient inspiration and guidance to decide on future plans, while, 39% of these students were guided by faculty staff members, which constituted the highest influence rather than recommendations from practicing dentists, family members or friends.
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