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Educational value of a university‐sponsored community dental clinic: a three year student evaluation
Author(s) -
Freed
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.1002/j.0022-0337.1976.40.2.tb00947.x
Subject(s) - pride , medical education , value (mathematics) , psychology , scope (computer science) , medicine , family medicine , service (business) , nursing , political science , machine learning , computer science , law , programming language , economy , economics
The overall assessment of the clinic experience by the students was positive. Response to the open‐ended questions showed that a number of students took pride in the Venice clinic and that they gained a great deal of personal and professional satisfaction from being able to provide service to people in a low‐income and minority community. Almost 90% stated that their understanding of health problems of the poor was improved; 75% felt that their ability to relate to patients from different backgrounds was broadened; and 45% expressed more willingness to practice in a low‐income area. This community setting also enlarged the scope of the students' clinical experience. Over 50% saw pathological conditions that they had not viewed previously. In addition, over 90% of the students did at least 50% more work, and over half of these performed twice as much treatment.