Background: In the last three decades there is a growing recognition in the dental profession that dental education must go beyond teaching the technicalities of dentistry and include professionalism and communication skills that the future dentist may need. Such skills are best taught in a student-centered way. Literature suggests that student-centered elements are difficult to introduce in traditional, teacher-centered curricula. This is especially true in post-communist countries where higher education was under strict state control for decades. The aim of the piece of research presented here was to investigate how difficult it is to introduce a student-centered career skills course in a traditionally teachercentered dental curriculum.Methods: Considering the needs of our final-year dental students and Super's model of career development, we created an undergraduate curricular career skills course running for two semesters in two languages (Hungarian and English). The primary aim of the course is to help students with their career expectations and develop their identity as a professional workforce. The secondary aim is to teach skills that students can use when applying for a job. At the end of the semesters, we assessed our students' satisfaction with various aspects of the course by using a questionnaire. Results were analyzed item-wise and according to the main aspects of the course (i.e., groups of items organized around a particular aspect). Results: General satisfaction with the course was high, and practical skills training (such as CV and motivation letter writing) got the highest scores. From the answers it appears that the students were the least comfortable with having to deal with their personal values and preferences. Conclusions: While it is common for universities to offer various forms of career intervention, to our knowledge, no other university offers a curricular career skills course specifically for dental students. Our student-centered course designed in a problem-based learning framework worked even in a traditionally teacher-centered educational environment, where university students are rarely encouraged to be active participants in courses. By sharing our experience, we would like to encourage our fellow dental educators working in similar environments to devise and offer such courses.

Introduction: The compromise effect is a well-known phenomenon in the world of marketing, but it is rarely examined in medical settings. In dental setting, the patient often has to make treatment-related decisions with price as the only available and comprehensible information to help informed choice. Aim: We sought to determine if the compromise effect plays a role in dental treatment choices, and if yes, how the effect is modified by factors such as perceived quality, professional jargon in the explanations, or the importance of keeping one’s own teeth intact. Method: 676 volunteers participated in this questionnaire-based study. The questionnaires were filled in anonymously. Altogether 8 versions of the same questionnaire were generated, in which the following information was given in varying combinations: the names of five different dental treatments from cheap to expensive, their possible prices, and additional information about the treatment. Statistical analysis: The significance of the relationship between the relative frequency of responses and the available additional information was determined by chi-square test and Fisher’s exact test. Results: The respondents did not approach dental treatment-related decisions on a heuristic basis by default, most probably because of their preconceptions and previous experiences in connection with dental treatments. Esthetics turned out to be of utmost importance and expectable lifespan was also information that significantly influenced the choices. Conclusion: Extra information can and does influence informed dental treatment choice on the patient side, provided it is offered in a clear, proper, and intelligible form, which points out the importance of professional communication. Orv Hetil. 2019; 160(38): 1503–1509.

A feltételezhetően 2019 végén Kínából indult és világjárvánnyá vált koronavírus-betegség (COVID-19) az egészségügyi ellátórendszer minden szegmensét érinti világszerte, így hazánkban is. Mivel az egészségügyi személyzet számos egészségügyi ellátás során kapcsolatba kerülhet vírusfertőzöttekkel is, járvány idején elengedhetetlenül szükséges, hogy a különböző területen dolgozó hazai szakemberek is naprakész információt kapjanak a vírusról és a fertőzésnek a betegellátást befolyásoló aspektusairól, a javasolt intézkedésekről. A jelen közlemény egy irodalmi összefoglaló, melyben a szerzők a jelenleg elérhető, idevágó hivatkozásokat dolgozták fel, szem előtt tartva a klinikumi ellátás járványügyi vonatkozásait. A feldolgozott publikációk alapján kijelenthető, hogy az elsődlegesen a fej-nyak régiót érintő beavatkozások során, kiemelten a forgó eszköz használatát is igénylő intervenciók esetét, elengedhetetlenül szükséges a beavatkozáskor a helyiségben tartózkodó összes munkatárs teljes védelme, egyszer használatos teljes öltözékkel, szemüveggel és speciális maszkokkal. Ezen felszerelések cseréje és a rendelő tisztítása minden beavatkozás után meg kell, hogy történjen, és erre a teljes ellátóteamet oktatással előre fel kell készíteni. Annak érdekében, hogy megelőzhetők legyenek a kezelések alatti keresztfertőzések és a szakemberek fertőzései, elengedhetetlen a munkaegészségügyi és infekciókontroll-intézkedések szigorú betartása. Orv Hetil. 2020; 161(17): 660-666. Essential new information for the clinical recognition of COVID-19 infection and the prevention possibilities of healthcare personnel working in the head and neck regionThe coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic probably started in China in 2019 and is influencing the whole healthcare system worldwide. As several healthcare interventions are essential even during pandemics, it is necessary for professionals working in such fields to get up-to-date information about the virus and its aspects that can influence patient care and suggested actions. The current article is a literature review, in which the authors elaborated the recently available scientific articles with their relevancy for clinical interventions as primary factor. The processed articles emphasize that during interventions in the head and neck region, especially when using rotating instruments, it is of utmost importance for all personnel being present at the time of intervention to wear full protection, including disposable medical uniforms, glasses and special masks. These single-use items have to be changed after each intervention and the whole team has to be educated for this process in advance. In order to avoid cross-contamination and infection of personnel during intervention, it is essential to keep all work-safety and infection-control precautions extremely strictly.