title: [Analysis and countermeasure of dental graduates' psychological state].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Dentistry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Hai-ning
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xia
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Ya-qin
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D006801:Humans; D013334:Students; D013335:Students, Dental / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires