Assessment of suturing and scaling skills of periodontology and oral medicine residents by OSATS method: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Updating the method for evaluating suturing and scaling skills in dental education has attracted relatively little attention and there is no consensus to what should be assessed and how. The purpose of this study was to investigate the applicability of the Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skill (OSATS) method for these two basic skills, the possible association between the scores and demographic factors, and the level of satisfaction of residents with this method.

Methods

All six periodontics and three oral medicine residents were recruited by census method and video-recorded while performing a simple interrupted suture, a figure eight suture and scaling on a model. Then, the videos were evaluated independently via a checklist and a global rating sca

SUBMITTER: Maybodi FR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10664488 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature