title: Social profile of first-year dentistry students at the University of Sydney.
abstract: There has been constant interest in the background of dentistry students over the years. This paper, based on the data amassed by surveying the first-year dentistry students of 1994 and 1995, builds on previous questionnaires and publications, and shows that certain trends in student make-up, predicted earlier, have been checked. The article examines such features as the gender breakdown of first-year students, age at the end of their first year, their own and their parents' countries of origin, English and non-English language proficiency, type of school attended, parents' occupations, parents' highest level of education, motivations for choosing dentistry as a career, aptitude for a career in dentistry, and previous studies and employment. The data are analysed with the view to determining changes over time in the social composition of dentistry students.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, University of Technology, Sydney.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gietzelt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D001076:Aptitude; D002321:Career Choice; D003710:Demography; D004493:Education / Q000145:classification; D004522:Educational Status; D004651:Employment; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D009517:New South Wales / Q000453:epidemiology; D009790:Occupations; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012574:Schools / Q000145:classification; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013335:Students, Dental / Q000706:statistics & numerical data