title: Attitudes and awareness of final-year predoctoral dental and medical students to medical problems in dentistry.
abstract: An increasing proportion of the population is medically compromised. Dental and medical staff need to communicate and cooperate to afford these patients the best possible health care. In this study, the attitude towards and awareness of medical problems were examined in final-year predoctoral (undergraduate) dental and in final-year medical students. The results revealed that most dental students felt their knowledge of and training in medical problems in dentistry to be moderate to good. In contrast, most medical students thought both their knowledge and training in medical problems in dentistry to be only poor to moderate. Dental students rated the importance of medical problems in dentistry higher than did medical students.
authors.affiliation: Eastman Dental Institute for Oral Health Care Sciences and International Centres for Excellence in Dentistry, WHO Collaborating Centre for Disability, Culture and Oral Health, University College London, University of London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Yehuda
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gill
authors.forename: Crispian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Scully
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D002983:Clinical Competence; D017742:Dental Care for Chronically Ill; D004194:Disease; D004497:Education, Dental; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009059:Mouth Diseases; D013335:Students, Dental / Q000523:psychology*; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*