Dental Students’ Self-efficacy of Core Evaluation Factors for Each Evaluation Area of Dental National Board Examination in Korea

Lee, Bora; Nam, Jung Hyun; Huh, Jisun; Kim, Soo-Yoon; Kim, Junhewk; Choi, Seong-Ho; Hu, Kyung-Seok

doi:2021.59.11.628

J Korean Dent Assoc > Volume 59(11); 2021 > Article

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

The Journal of The Korean Dental Association 2021;59(11):628-639.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22974/jkda.2021.59.11.002 Published online October 31, 2021.

치과의사 실기시험의 영역별 핵심평가요소에 대한 치과대학생의 자기효능감

이보라¹

^¹연세대학교 치과대학 치의학교육학교실
^²연세대학교 치과대학
^³연세대학교 치과대학 BK²¹ 플러스 통합구강생명과학 사업단
^⁴연세대학교 치과대학 치주과학교실
^⁵연세대학교 치과대학 구강생물학교실

Dental Students’ Self-efficacy of Core Evaluation Factors for Each Evaluation Area of Dental National Board Examination in Korea

Bora Lee¹

, Soo-Yoon Kim^1,3

¹Department of Dental Education, Yonsei University College of Dentistry
²Senior Dental Student, Yonsei University College of Dentistry
³BK21 PLUS Project, Yonsei University College of Dentistry
⁴Department of Periodontology, Yonsei University College of Dentistry
⁵Department of Oral Biology, Yonsei University College of Dentistry

Correspondence: Kyung-Seok Hu, Tel: +82-2-2228-3047, Fax: +82-2-393-8076,
Email: hks318@yuhs.ac

Received: 16 June 2021 • Revised: 16 July 2021 • Accepted: 5 August 2021

Abstract

This study aimed to explore the self-efficacy of dental students in the evaluation areas of practical examination of the Dental National Board Examination, which will be first introduced to 2022 graduates. In this study, 22 evaluation areas of practical ex-amination and their core evaluation elements of each evaluation area were converted into a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire to investigate the self-efficacy of dental students. Statistical data analysis using SPSS was conducted to compare various student’s characteristics (α=0.05): (a) student's t-test for the gender, admission type, grade, and D3 students’ direct patient care experience in each evaluation area and (b) one-way ANOVA for the age and number of patients treated by D4 students. The results are as follows: (a) D4 students showed statistically higher scores than D3 students in 20 evaluation areas, (b) D4 students had a full direct patient care experience in 11 evaluation areas, (c) There were significant differences in five evaluation areas according to the D4’s direct patient care experience, and (d) D4 students showed low self-efficacy in three evaluation areas compared to the overall average even they have performed their direct patient care. The findings of this study indicated that it is necessary to not only enhance the direct patient care experience of predoctoral students, but also provide more additional educational experience according to the treatment area. This study suggests that the clinical practice of dental students’ needs to be designed to provide more appropriate intervention, evaluation, and feedback, rather than considering only the quantitative increase in direct patient care experience.

Key Words: Self-efficacy; Dental national board examination; Practical examination; Dental education; Dental students