Survey of dental practice/dental education in Victoria Part I. Questionnaire/general aspects

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A questionnaire was designed to canvas the opinions of dentists registered with the Dental Board and residents in the State of Victoria, with a view to assessign the present undergraduate curriculum in relation to clinical dental practice. All respondents were requested to provide information about age, sex, registration, type/location of practice and qualifications. The questionnaire sought opinions from all respondents regarding the priority to be given to basic sciences and medical sciences as well as the introduction of topics not presently included in the undergraduate course. Questions were also posed in relation to physical assessment of applicants for the dental course, the timing of introduction to clinical procedures and the desirability of an intern year (Section A). Other sections were designed to ascertain the current trends and busyness of general dental practice (Sections B and C) and of restricted/specialist practice (Section C and E), the views of recent graduates and postgraduates with respect to the appropriateness of their training for clinical practice (Sections D and F, respectively) and, in a separate questionnaire, the perceived views of graduating students with respect to their training for registration as dentists. The results of the survey were prepared in the form of four papers, namely, General aspects (Part 1), Recent graduates/-graduating students (Part II), Current trends in general dental practice (Part III) and Specialists dental practice (Part IV). This paper deals with the results of Section A of the survey, which, it is suggested, needed to be considered in any view of the curriculum.

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