Current State of Undergraduate Education in Oral Implantology in Japan

Abstract

An anonymous questionnaire-based survey was used to determine the current state of and issues involved in undergraduate education in oral implantology at Tokyo Dental College. The participants comprised 139 students who had received lectures on and practical training in oral implantology in 2013. The results indicate that the overall level of student comprehension was high for both lectures and practical training content; the level of difficulty was appropriate for practical training, but the amount of practice time given requires reconsideration. Over 80% of the students gave positive responses in their overall evaluation of lectures and practical training, and the number of students who had an interest in oral implantology after finishing the course and who wanted to be involved in oral implantology as dentists increased. These results indicate that this undergraduate education program is effective in improving understanding of oral implantology. Improvement is required, however, in lecture methodology and practical training content. It is also suggested that the curriculum should be evaluated by students regularly and that the courses be subject to updating as required.

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Current status of predoctoral implant dentistry education – student’s didactic performance and self-assessment: A Systematic Review.

“…The study population was the one at different levels of undergraduate training. The included studies were conducted in different parts of the world [1,2,12,22,23]. Overall, these surveys found that the participants were poorly informed [22] to moderately well informed [23] about the implants' selection and use.…”

“…The majority of participants said that dental implants' key benefit was that they were additionally conservative:55.4% [12], 59.8% [2], 54.83% [21]. Few surveys used knowledge self-assessment the participating undergraduate students before and after the implant course [1,20,21]. The implant knowledge of the students improved for two studies [1,20] but not for one [21].…”

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“…The available literature on these aspects is vast, discrepant, and unorganized to easily draw common conclusions. The most frequent type of the studies used to measure the educational outcomes are surveys with the aim to gauge the knowledge, attitude, and perception of dental predoctoral students towards dental implants [1,2,4,12]. There are only a few consensus reports and opinions available about this topic [13,14,15].…”