Table 1 The curriculum-defined competencies that below 30% of the Iranian senior dental students (n = 438) believed in the adequacy of dentistry program to cover them, and the distribution of the students’ responses according to their sex and dental school active years
From: Evaluation of national dental curriculum in Iran using senior dental students’ feedback
Total n (%) | Sex | P* | School working years | P* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male n (%) | Female n (%) | ≤ 15 years n (%) | > 15 years n (%) | ||||
Theoretical | |||||||
Implementation of evidence-based dentistry principles** | 70 (20.7) | 44 (27.2) | 26 (14.8) | 0.005 | 44 (23.5) | 26 (17.2) | 0.16 |
Maintenance of dental equipment | 77 (18.2) | 42 (22.3) | 35 (14.8) | 0.046 | 29 (15.6) | 48 (20.2) | 0.23 |
Performing other intra-oral surgeries (other than tooth extraction) | 79 (18.5) | 34 (17.9) | 45 (19.0) | 0.77 | 41 (21.9) | 38 (15.8) | 0.11 |
Practice management | 80 (18.8) | 41 (21.5) | 39 (16.7) | 0.21 | 31 (16.6) | 49 (20.6) | 0.29 |
Performing a medical research** | 84 (24.7) | 44 (27.2) | 40 (22.5) | 0.32 | 49 (26.2) | 35 (22.9) | 0.48 |
Endodontic re-treatment of a multiple-root tooth | 88 (21.0) | 45 (24.3) | 43 (18.4) | 0.14 | 39 (21.4) | 49 (20.7) | 0.85 |
Complicated surgical extraction of wisdom teeth | 102 (23.8) | 49 (25.8) | 53 (22.2) | 0.38 | 55 (29.4) | 47 (19.4) | 0.02 |
Performing periodontal surgeries | 111 (26.1) | 44 (23.3) | 67 (28.4) | 0.23 | 53 (28.5) | 58 (24.3) | 0.33 |
Practical | |||||||
Performing other intra-oral surgeries (other than tooth extraction) | 57 (13.8) | 33 (17.4) | 24 (10.9) | 0.03 | 29 (16.1) | 28 (12.0) | 0.23 |
Maintenance of dental equipment | 62 (14.9) | 35 (19.1) | 27 (11.6) | 0.03 | 24 (13.2) | 38*16.3) | 0.38 |
Implementation of evidence-based dentistry principles** | 64 (19.5) | 42 (26.9) | 22 (12.8) | 0.001 | 39 (21.5) | 25 (17.0) | 0.30 |
Practice management | 67 (16.2) | 37 (20.3) | 30 (12.9) | 0.04 | 28 (15.6) | 39 (16.6) | 0.79 |
Complicated surgical extraction of wisdom teeth | 68 (16.3) | 35 (19.1) | 33 (14.1) | 0.17 | 42 (23.5) | 26 (10.9) | 0.001 |
Performing a medical research** | 68 (20.5) | 35 (22.3) | 33 (19.0) | 0.45 | 36 (19.8) | 32 (21.5) | 0.70 |
Endodontic re-treatment of a multiple-root tooth | 71 (17.3) | 38 (20.7) | 33 (14.5) | 0.1 | 31 (17.1) | 40 (17.4) | 0.94 |
Management of medical emergencies | 72 (17.5) | 29 (16.1) | 43 (18.6) | 0.51 | 31 (17.3) | 41 (17.7) | 0.93 |
Performing periodontal surgeries | 74 (17.8) | 35 (19.1) | 39 (16.7) | 0.53 | 42 (23.1) | 32 (13.7) | 0.013 |
Fabrication of space-maintainers | 89 (21.3) | 50 (27.0) | 39 (16.7) | 0.01 | 59 (32.4) | 30 (12.7) | < 0.001 |
Professional behavior with other colleagues** | 93 (28.3) | 44 (28.6) | 49 (28.0) | 0.91 | 49 (27.2) | 44 (29.5) | 0.64 |
Management of dental emergencies | 103 (25.1) | 50 (27.3) | 53 (23.3) | 0.36 | 50 (27.9) | 53 (22.9) | 0.25 |
Prescribing necessary drugs when needed | 111 (27.2) | 49 (27.1) | 62 (27.3) | 0.96 | 47 (26.0) | 64 (28.2) | 0.62 |
Simple surgical extraction of wisdom teeth | 114 (27.2) | 62 (33.7) | 52 (22.1) | 0.008 | 71 (39.0) | 43 (18.1) | < 0.001 |