title: Pediatric dentistry clinical education venues evaluation by pre and post-doctoral students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate dental students' perspectives about pre- and post-doctoral pediatric dentistry education venues.
  
  
  METHODS
  Surveys with visual analog scales (from 0 to 100) measuring the educational contribution of pediatric dentistry venues were conducted. The pre-doctoral venues included a 3rd year university twilight clinic (UTC), a 3rd year urban community based clinic (CBC) and 4th year mobile clinics (MCs). The post-doctoral venues included treatment of children under general anesthesia, oral sedations, a regular clinic (no sedations), seminars, journal club, case conferences and studding for the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Analyses of variance between the scores indicated that the 3rd year CBC score (68.2 ± 4.5) was statistically significant higher (p= .007) than the one for the 3rd year UTC score (44.9 ± 6.1). The 4th year students' MCs score (61.4 ± 4.0) was statistically significant higher than their retrospective scores for the 3rd year CBC (56.4 ± 4.4) or UTC (42.2 ± 4.9) scores (p= .03 and .004 respectively). Among the didactic or clinical post-doctoral venues, the regular clinic and the seminars received the highest scores (84.3 ± 1.7 and 71.6 ± 2.8 respectively).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  pre-doctoral community-based clinical education and post-doctoral regular university based clinic are considered by students to provide the main contribution to pediatric dental education.
authors: University of Kentucky College of Dentistry.
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Bimstein
authors: University of Kentucky College of Dentistry.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Mayes
authors: University of Kentucky College of Dentistry.
authors: Hc
authors: H
authors: Mittal
mesh_terms: D000766:Anesthesia, Dental; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002648:Child; D003151:Community Health Centers; D016292:Procedural Sedation; D019140:Dental Care for Children; D003740:Dental Clinics / Q000145:classification*; D004497:Education, Dental; D006801:Humans; D007629:Kentucky; D008952:Mobile Health Units; D010377:Pediatric Dentistry / Q000193:education*; D011231:Preceptorship; D013335:Students, Dental / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D019037:Urban Health Services; D064232:Visual Analog Scale
keywords: Dentistry; Education; Pediatric Dentistry