[Analysis and countermeasure of dental graduates' psychological state].
OBJECTIVE
To study the dental graduates' psychological state in general dentistry and help teachers take countermeasure during clinical teaching.


METHODS
43 dental graduates were investigated in August 2008 through questionnaire, involving attitude toward career, communication in practice and so on.


RESULTS
46.51% of dental students felt optimistic about their occupation foreground, 72.09% of dental students wished be a dentist after graduation, 60.47% students felt indecisive in practice, 69.77% of students thought the preclinical theoretical study was partly useful in the practice, 65.12% of students could communicate with patients successfully.


CONCLUSIONS
The dental graduates have ambivalence in profession ideal and actuality, such as conflict between work enthusiasm and work ability, communion need and obstacle. The teachers should try to intercommunicate with students,adopt corresponding psychotherapy individually,alleviate their stress,help them complete the dental practice well.
He
Yan
Y
Department of General Dentistry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China.
Wang
Hai-ning
HN
Cao
Xia
X
Zhu
Ya-qin
YQ
D002321:Career Choice; D006801:Humans; D013334:Students; D013335:Students, Dental / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires