Motivations and future plans of the final year students in a Chinese dental school.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding dental students' future career choice and motivation could provide beneficial references for both educators and students, but there were few studies on students in a Chinese dental school. The study aimed to investigate Chinese final year dental students' the short-term and long-term plans, motivations, and identify the influence of gender on the future plans.

Methods

A total of 265 final year dental school students of the School of Stomatology, China Medical University from 2016 through 2020 were invited to complete an anonymous, 27-item questionnaire. Moreover, almost all of questions were in multiple-choice formats. Data were categorized and analysed using chi-square comparative analyses.

Results

88.3% of respondents decided to pursue a gra

SUBMITTER: Xu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8829983 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature