The Adelaide undergraduates dental curriculum: an appraisal by recent graduates and final-year students.
Eighty-eight recent graduates and thirty final-year students replied to a questionnaire on the effectiveness of the present Adelaide undergraduate curriculum in relation to general dental practice. A high proportion of the first-year graduates had some difficulties in various aspects of practice management. Some first-year graduates and students lacked confidence in managing interpersonal relationships. Students especially, but also some graduates, were not competent in several clinical skills. A number of graduates and students were unhappy with the present place and purposes of the pre-clinical science subjects.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001315:Australia; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D003815:Dentists; D004497:Education, Dental; D004515:Education, Predental; D011215:Practice Management, Dental; D013335:Students, Dental