A profile of dentists working in the general and community dental services in Scotland in 1987.
A questionnaire was sent to a list of what was considered to be all (1726) practitioners in the General Dental Service (GDS) and Community Dental Service (CDS) in Scotland. The overall response rate was 72%. A comparison of certain characteristics of the respondents with those of the entire group of dentists who were sent questionnaires suggested that the respondents comprised an acceptable cross-section. Proportionally more females worked in the CDS than in the GDS and many of the differences between the general characteristics of practitioners in the two services appeared to reflect differences which are known to exist between the career patterns of male and female dental practitioners. Most respondents (84.7%) claimed to have attended a post-graduate course within the last 5 years, although only 33.4% claimed to have attended more than one course per year. Over three-quarters of the respondents (76.0%) claimed that they belonged to a professional society, whilst 98.5% stated that they regularly read a professional journal or practice newspaper of some description.
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D003149:Community Dentistry; D003752:Dental Health Services; D003815:Dentists / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003816:Dentists, Women / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011636:Public Health Dentistry; D012606:Scotland; D013222:State Medicine; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D000078329:Workforce