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Integrating student feedback during “Dental Curriculum Hack-A-thon”

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, May 2018
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Title
Integrating student feedback during “Dental Curriculum Hack-A-thon”
Published in
BMC Medical Education, May 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12909-018-1189-z
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Authors

Shawheen S. Saffari, R. Frederick Lambert, Lucy Dang, Sarah Pagni, Irina F. Dragan

Abstract

The future of dental education is at crossroads. This study used the parameter of the 2016 Dental Curriculum Hack-a-Thon to assess intra- and inter-institutional agreement between student and faculty views regarding dental curriculums to determine if there is an impact in student perceptions towards dental education from before and after the event. This exploratory, cross-sectional study involved two surveys, with Survey 1 being distributed among four faculty-student pairs of the four participating dental schools answering 14 questions. Survey 2 assessed the views of 20 participating dental students through 26 questions in a pre- and post- event survey design. Descriptive statistics were used to explore differences in perceptions towards dental education across both instrument surveys. The results revealed valuable student insights regarding intra- and inter-institutional agreement relevant for the change in dental curriculum that needs to occur. Survey 2 revealed that mandatory attendance in didactic courses, electronic based examination preferences, and the preference of preclinical courses being held in the first and second years of a four-year dental curriculum were of particular importance to student participants. The results of this study indicate that exposure and participation in subjects pertaining to dental education can be influential on student preferences and opinions on how dental education should be delivered in a four-year curriculum.

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Unknown 45 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 20%
Lecturer 4 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 9%
Student > Postgraduate 3 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 7%
Other 10 22%
Unknown 12 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 17 38%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 7%
Social Sciences 3 7%
Psychology 3 7%
Engineering 2 4%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 14 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 May 2018.
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#4,637,916
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#778
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#89,575
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#26
of 97 outputs
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