title: Live broadcast lectures on complete denture prosthodontics at Tokyo Medical and Dental University: comparison of two years.
abstract: A live broadcasting system was developed as part of dental education with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at Tokyo Medical and Dental University. The purpose of this study was to utilize this system in complete denture prosthodontics, especially for the procedure of making a definitive impression with custom tray border molding in edentulous patients, and to evaluate its effectiveness. Live broadcast lectures on complete denture prosthodontics were given to fourth-year students in 2009 (fifty-nine students) and in 2010 (sixty-five students). To evaluate this lecture, a questionnaire was distributed to the students and faculty members after the lecture. Almost all the students and faculty members rated the lecture as good. Students commented that the lecture was "intelligible," "inspiring," "improved understanding," "good because they could ask questions in real time," "helped to know the actual time," "good for all the students to see the same case," and "close to real experience and induced a sense of tension." The results of this study suggested that a live broadcast lecture would help students experience the real clinical situation and aid in teaching complete denture prosthodontics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Complete Denture Prosthodontics, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Maiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Iwaki
authors.forename: Manabu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kanazawa
authors.forename: Masayo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sunaga
authors.forename: Atsuhiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kinoshita
authors.forename: Shunsuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Minakuchi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003761:Dental Impression Technique; D003824:Denture, Complete; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000379:methods*; D018961:Educational Technology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011476:Prosthodontics / Q000193:education*; D012575:Schools, Dental; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014041:Tokyo; D014741:Video Recording