Factors influencing dental professional career in India: An exploratory survey

Kapoor, Shivam; Puranik, Manjunath P; Uma, SR

doi:10.4103/2319-5932.140278

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“…11,12 Some studies also reveal that students chose dentistry to earn a lot of money and also wanted to improve the person's appearance. 12,15,16 Our study also showed similar results. Most of the students (undergraduates and postgraduates) reported being happy with their profession and when we compared it with other studies, we found that 48.6% of interns were happy with the dental profession.…”

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“…Most of the students (undergraduates and postgraduates) reported being happy with their profession and when we compared it with other studies, we found that 48.6% of interns were happy with the dental profession. 17 The study done by Kapoor et al 16 showed that 92.8% dental professionals were happy and enjoyed helping and improving appearance of people. Similar results were shown by us too that dentistry is not only confined to improving esthetics, but there are other aspects of dentistry also, such as surgical treatments, conservative and endodontic treatment, prosthetic treatment, implants, diagnostic and treatment planning of oral cancer, as well as oral hygiene care, but in reality, most of the dental students and professionals focus only on the esthetic part of the dentistry.…”

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Motivation and Perception for Choosing Dentistry as a Career among Students of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Bhat¹,

Chhabra²,

Sultane³

et al. 2017

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Motivation and Perception for Choosing Dentistry as a Career among Students of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Bhat¹,

Chhabra²,

Sultane³

et al. 2017

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“…For all the participants from dental programmes, dentistry was their first choice to study. Previous studies in various countries showed that 'Self-employment', 'Financial independence' (Kapoor et al, 2014) and 'Job security ' (Brand et al, 1996) were significant factors influencing the career choice of dental students. Crossley and Mubarik (2002) reported that dental students chose dentistry because of 'Regular working hours', 'Self-employment' and 'Independence'.…”

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Factors influencing choice of career: A comparative study among medical, dental and pharmacy students in a private university in Malaysia

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Background: Students choose their careers based on many factors, which vary for every country. Recent advancements in healthcare systems have made pharmacy one of the most pursued professions. Aim: To study the factors that influence students in Malaysia to choose pharmacy as their career. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among first-year medicine, dentistry and pharmacy students in a private university in Malaysia. One-way analysis of variance followed by Tukey’s post-hoc test was used to determine the factors that influenced students’ career choices. Results: There were significant differences among medicine, dentistry and pharmacy students in the mean scores for the dimensions ‘economic status’, ‘personal background’, and ‘work-life balance’ which influenced their career choice. Conclusions: Economic status, personal background and work-life balance were the factors that significantly influenced students to choose pharmacy compared with students’ choice of dentistry and medicine.

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“…This possibility would be consistent with survey evidence suggesting that dentists chose their profession based on a desire to behave altruistically. [27][28][29][30][31] It may be thus that these dental students behaved more altruistically than the literature average because pursuit of the profession selects for altruistic individuals. Further research could test this theory by conducting the same experiment, holding fixed age and gender of participants, but with a population of graduate students who are not training to be health professionals.…”

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“…In fact, altruism has been found to be the primary motivation of dental students in Australia, 27 Sweden, 28 Jordan, 29 Iran, 30 and India. 31 The literature on altruism among health care professions has found significant heterogeneity in levels of altruism among such individuals. Carreon et al found that the demographic characteristics of senior dental students were the most important determinants of altruism, with the highest reported altruism among women, African Americans, Asian/Pacific Islanders, and students with low socioeconomic status.…”

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Observed Altruism in Dental Students: An Experiment Using the Ultimatum Game

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Jarvis

Olson

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Journal of Dental Education

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Abstract:The conventional wisdom in dental and medical education is that dental and medical students experience "ethical erosion" over the duration of dental and medical school. There is some evidence for this claim, but in the case of dental education the evidence consists entirely of survey research, which does not measure behavior. The aim of this study was to measure the altruistic behavior of dental students in order to fill the significant gap in knowledge of how students are disposed to behave, rather than how they are disposed to think. To test the altruistic behavior of dental students, the authors conducted a field experiment using the Ultimatum Game, a two-player game used in economics to observe social behavior. In the game, the "proposer" is given a pot of resources, typically money, to split with the "responder." The proposer proposes a split of the pot to the responder. If the responder accepts the proposed split, both participants keep the amounts offered. If the proposal is rejected, then neither participant receives anything. In this study, the students played the proposer, and the responder was a fictional individual although the students believed they were playing the computerized game with a real person. In fall 2015, dental students from each of the four years at one university played the game. All 160 students were invited to participate, and 136 did so, for a response rate of 85%. The results showed that the students exhibited greater levels of altruism than the general population typically does. The students' altruism was at its highest in year four and was associated with the socioeconomic status of responder. This result raises the possibility that if a decreasing ability to behave altruistically is observed during dental school, it may not be due to a general disposition of students, but rather some factor specific to the educational environment.

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Factors influencing dental professional career in India: An exploratory survey

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Motivation and Perception for Choosing Dentistry as a Career among Students of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Motivation and Perception for Choosing Dentistry as a Career among Students of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Factors influencing choice of career: A comparative study among medical, dental and pharmacy students in a private university in Malaysia

Observed Altruism in Dental Students: An Experiment Using the Ultimatum Game

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