Table 5 The proportion of the Iranian senior dental students (n = 438) who agreed or completely agreed with the necessity of the extension of the three phases of national dental curriculum, and the distribution of responses by sex and dental schools’ 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 (%) | ||||
Basic science phase | 33 (8.3) | 19 (10.7) | 14 (6.3) | 0.118 | 16 (9.5) | 17 (7.4) | 0.44 |
Pre-clinical phase | 108 (28.6) | 47 (30.1) | 61 (27.6) | 0.593 | 61 (38.1) | 47 (21.7) | < 0.001 |
Clinical phase | 266 (69.1) | 108 (64.3) | 158 (72.8) | 0.07 | 107 (65.2) | 159 (71.9) | 0.16 |