Dental public health education in Egypt: a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aim

Dental Public Health (DPH) education prepares future workforce to promote positive oral health behaviors, prevent oral diseases, and monitor disease distribution and trends taking into considerations best practices, needs and available resources. Scarce information is available about dental education in African countries and Egypt has the greatest number of dental schools in Africa. This study assessed the undergraduate DPH education in Egyptian universities including topics taught, methods of teaching, assessment, and the academics' specialties.

Methods

A survey targeted 43 Egyptian universities with Bachelor of Dentistry (BDS) programs identified on the website of the Supreme Council of Egyptian Universities in 2022. Thirty-six deans could be reached by

SUBMITTER: Gouda H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10675885 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature