undergraduate dental education

Background/Aim: Ageism can influence the quality of geriatric dental care, yet evidence among dental students remains inconsistent across cohorts. This study compares ageism between students at two institutions within the same district sharing identical training requirements and evaluated the questionnaire's internal consistency. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the 15-item, six-component ageism questionnaire was administered online to 100 undergraduate dental students (65 from Institution 1; 35 from Institution 2). Internal consistency was measured using Cronbach's alpha; Welch's t-tests compared institutions, with a Bonferroni-adjusted significance level ≤ 0.008 for the six component comparisons. Results: The mean total score was 48.81 (SD 5.83). Overall internal consistency was weak (α = 0.521). The total score did not differ significantly between institutions (48.58 vs. 49.23; t (54.12) = 0.48, p = 0.634), and no component difference was observed with Bonferroni adjustment. Conclusions: Ageist attitudes did not differ between institutions, but the questionnaire's weak overall reliability limits interpretation. Larger samples, confirmatory factor analysis, and testing of measurement invariance are warranted.

Objective: to analyse the effect of Flipped classroom with the use of 3D atlas as a positive impact on the active learning of anatomy in undergraduate dental students. Study Design: Quasi-Experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Margalla Institute of Health Sciences, Rawalpindi, Pakistan from Aug to Sep 2023. Methodology: There were 75 first-year BDS students who were randomly assigned to one of two Groups (4 were excluded): one Group got the standard classroom instruction (n=35), and the other Group got the flipped classroom with 3D atlas (n=36). Prior to the classes, there was a pre-quiz, and afterwards, there was a post-quiz. Final evaluation was based on 25 multiple-choice questions. We compared the scores from each Group. In order to assess views and experiences, a questionnaire with a 5-point Likert scale was utilised. Results; Out of seventy-five students, four students were absent, therefore, they were excluded from the study. Forty-one (57.7%) students had less or equal to 12 marks or fail in pretest while in after test ten (27.0%) students failed. Moreover, 25 (35.2%) students had 13 to 16 marks in pretest and 5(13.5%) had 13 to 16 marks in posttest. Furthermore, only 5(7.0%) Students had >16 marks in pretest whereas after flipped class, 22(59.5%) Students scored >16 which is significantly increased as p-value <0.001. Conclusion: This study demonstrates that flipped classrooms are successful for teaching anatomy, since they led to a small but statistically significant increase in the number of students passing.

هدف: تحلیل تأثیر کلاس معکوس با استفاده از اطلس سه‌بعدی به عنوان تأثیر مثبت بر یادگیری فعال آناتومی در دانشجویان کارشناسی دندان‌پزشکی. طرح مطالعه: مطالعه شبه‌آزمایشی. محل و مدت زمان مطالعه: مؤسسه علوم سلامت مارگالا، راولپندی، پاکستان از اوت تا سپتامبر ۲۰۲۳. روش‌شناسی: ۷۵ دانشجوی سال اول دندان‌پزشکی به صورت تصادفی به یکی از دو گروه تقسیم شدند (۴ نفر حذف شدند): یک گروه آموزش کلاسیک (n=35) و گروه دیگر کلاس معکوس با اطلس سه‌بعدی (n=36) را دریافت کردند. پیش از کلاس‌ها آزمون پیش‌آزمون و پس از آن آزمون پس‌آزمون برگزار شد. ارزیابی نهایی بر اساس ۲۵ سؤال چندگزینه‌ای انجام شد. نمرات هر گروه مقایسه گردید. برای ارزیابی دیدگاه‌ها و تجربیات، پرسشنامه‌ای با مقیاس لیکرت ۵ درجه‌ای استفاده شد. نتایج: از هفتاد و پنج دانشجو، چهار نفر غایب بودند و بنابراین از مطالعه حذف شدند. چهل و یک نفر (۵۷/۷٪) در پیش‌آزمون نمره کمتر یا مساوی ۱۲ یا مردود شدند، در حالی که پس از آزمون ده نفر (۲۷/۰٪) مردود شدند. همچنین، ۲۵ نفر (۳۵/۲٪) در پیش‌آزمون نمره ۱۳ تا ۱۶ و ۵ نفر (۱۳/۵٪) در پس‌آزمون نمره ۱۳ تا ۱۶ کسب کردند. علاوه بر این، تنها ۵ نفر (۷/۰٪) در پیش‌آزمون نمره بیش از ۱۶ داشتند، در حالی که پس از کلاس معکوس، ۲۲ نفر (۵۹/۵٪) نمره بیش از ۱۶ کسب کردند که به طور معناداری افزایش یافته است (p-value<0.001). نتیجه‌گیری: این مطالعه نشان می‌دهد که کلاس‌های معکوس برای آموزش آناتومی موفقیت‌آمیز هستند، زیرا منجر به افزایش اندک اما معنادار آماری در تعداد دانشجویان قبول‌شده شده‌اند.