title: [Analysis of Shanghai residents' cognition and approbation to dental practical clinic].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To know about Shanghai residents' cognition and approbation to dental practical clinic and discuss the appropriate mode of clinical teaching.
  
  
  METHODS
  100 residents were chosen in five super-markets in five different districts randomly to fill in a questionnaire.
  
  
  RESULTS
  475 questionnaires were effective among 502 questionnaires and the efficiency was 94.62%; 10.32% informants knew the practical clinic, 56.84% informants would like to know it; 40.21% informants would like to choose the specialists, meanwhile 37.68% informants would choose the interns; 65.43% informants were satisfied with the dental interns.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The cognition and approbation of residents to dental practical clinic should be enhanced, hospitals and schools should strengthen propaganda and improve teaching, in order to advancing the approbation based on upgrading the cognition.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Dentistry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China. richael_smilefm@163.com
authors.forename: Ming-yi
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Ming-yang
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Jin-heng
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ya-qin
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003071:Cognition; D003729:Dental Care; D004497:Education, Dental; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires