Abstract

Aim: The basic aim of this study is to establish techniques to impart the best education to the students, clearly define goals and sense of personal and social responsibility along with commitment to address ethical and moral dilemmas.

Introduction: In Dental curriculum clinical orientation is important to prepare the pre-clinical under graduate students to manage the quality and the quantity of the work as well as groom their personalities to effectively perform their duties and responsibilities.

Materials and methods: The Cross-sectional study include 164 students of third and final year from 3 Government Colleges of Punjab. The data was collected on a specially designed Performa that was developed by a team of dental experts and through literature review.

Results: In this study less than 50% of the students had hospital visit, familiarity with inter departmental functionalities and their rules and regulations. 90.85% of the participants have information regarding the use of PPE. More than 50% knew how to approach patient, history taking, differential diagnosis, treatment planning, different medications, medical emergencies and their treatments and how to deal with patient attendants. 63.41% of the participants were familiar with stress management.

Conclusion: It can be concluded from this study that immediate measures should be taken to evaluate the short comings and to ensure that the students have adequate knowledge about various perspectives important for the pre-clinical orientation, so that they can perform their duties better in latter part.

Keywords: Pre-Clinical; Dental Students; Orientation; Participants