Evaluation of anatomy courses in the faculty of dentistry in line with the views of academic staff and exam performance of students
Evaluation of anatomy courses in the faculty of dentistry in line with the views of academic staff and exam performance of students
Aim: Basic medical sciences have an important place in the curriculum of faculties of dentistry, just as in all fields of science dealingwith health. One of these is anatomy. In the Faculty of Dentistry at İnönü University, anatomy course is taught in parallel with theFaculty of Medicine. The aim of this study is to compare the exam performances of medical faculty and dentistry faculty studentssince the curriculum of anatomy course at İnönü University is taught by the same faculty members and also to learn the attitudes ofinstructors at the faculty of dentistry through a questionnaire.Material and Methods: First, we compared the success rates of faculty of medicine and faculty of dentistry second year studentsin their anatomy practice exams during the academic years 2016-2017, 2017-2018 and 2018-2019. After, we conducted a study inwhich we asked the students to define anatomic structures on radiological images at the end of the academic year 2018-2019 whenanatomy courses ended in both faculties. In the final stage of the study, we conducted a questionnaire for the instructors to get theiropinions about the anatomy courses they received during their undergraduate education.Results: In all but one of the end of the board exams which were conducted during the three academic years, the success percentageof dentistry faculty students were found to be lower than those of medical faculty students. In the study in which we asked about theanatomic structures through radiological images, the number of the correct answers given by dentistry faculty students was lowerthan the number of correct answers given by medical faculty students. We believe that the success rate of dentistry faculty studentswere low since they lost their interest in the course because they were learning information they thought they would not need all theirlives long. 73.91% of the instructors think that they received anatomy education more than they needed for their profession, whichsupports our opinion.Conclusion: We believe that it is wrong to follow the exact medical faculty curriculum in dentistry faculty for anatomy course.
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- Yayın Aralığı: Aylık
- Yayıncı: İnönü Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi
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