Home Print this page Email this page Small font sizeDefault font sizeIncrease font size
Users Online: 517

 

Home About us Editorial board Search Ahead of print Current issue Archives Submit article Instructions Subscribe Contacts Login 
     
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Year : 2012  |  Volume : 2  |  Issue : 2  |  Page : 74-79

Students' perceptions regarding dental courses: An integrative literature review


1 Department of Preventive and Social Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2 Department of Comprehensive Care, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Correspondence Address:
Alexandre F Bulgarelli
Fernandes Vieira st, 634. Porto Alegre/RS
Brazil
Login to access the Email id

Source of Support: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development/ CNPq., Conflict of Interest: None


DOI: 10.4103/0974-7761.121263

Rights and Permissions

Background: Currently, dental courses are concerned with an academic environment with spaces to coach students to construct an ethical and a humane profile. Dental students' perceptions regarding their courses need to be the baseline to curricula evaluation. This study aims to comprehend the perceptions regarding dental courses and describe how these perceptions are currently studied. Materials and Methods: Quantitative and descriptive approach designed by an Integrative Literature Review. Authors constructed the sample of study by means of the descriptors Education; Perception; Dentistry and Curriculum. Authors crossed these descriptors at worldwide databases as Lilacs, PubMed/Medline/WofS, IBECS, Library Cochrane, and SciELO. Results: 76% of the evidences were developed by means of quantitative studies without application of a validate instrument (68%). The content, of the 25 articles analyzed, were categorized as: Perceptions about educational and social environment to evaluate an undergraduate curriculum (68%); Evaluating student's abilities and their academic interests to analyze his/her academic training (24%); Problem-Based Learning in health undergraduate courses as a possibility for perspective of learning (8%). The evidence levels of sample selection were III (4%); IV (52%); V (28%) and VI (16%). Conclusion: This research considers that new evaluations are necessary in order to validate the information about the students' perception regarding dental course.


[FULL TEXT] [PDF]*
Print this article     Email this article
 Next article
 Previous article
 Table of Contents

 Similar in PUBMED
   Search Pubmed for
   Search in Google Scholar for
 Related articles
 Citation Manager
 Access Statistics
 Reader Comments
 Email Alert *
 Add to My List *
 * Requires registration (Free)
 

 Article Access Statistics
    Viewed4370    
    Printed199    
    Emailed0    
    PDF Downloaded348    
    Comments [Add]    

Recommend this journal