Wolf, Thomas Gerhard; Wagner, Ralf Friedrich; Zeyer, Oliver; Ilhan, Duygu; Crnić, Tin; Otterbach, Ernst-Jürgen; Campus, Guglielmo (2020). Expectations regarding dental practice: A cross-sectional survey of European dental students. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(19), p. 7296. MDPI 10.3390/ijerph17197296
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Obtaining information on expectations among dental students regarding their career
planning was the main purpose of this observational online survey. The questionnaire was designed with 18 items in five different languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Data were collected on nationality, age, sex, country of residence, university attended, semester, expected year of graduation and expectations about future career. More than 3000 participants (n = 3851, 2863 females 74.34% and 988 males 25.66% with a sex ratio of 0.35) participated in the survey. Almost one-third (31.29%) of the participants plan to start their own practice at least three years after vocational training, a quarter (25.76%) after three, and only 12.59% after one year. A positive influence of the family in the decision to start a practice was observed in 50.07% of the sample with a statistically significant difference regarding sex (p < 0.01). Almost one-third of the participants did not wish to work in an institution run by private equity or insurance companies, while 21.79% would work in that environment (p < 0.01). European dental students desire mainly to become self-employed and start their own practice. New professional practices also offer them options for their future career that they have not yet decided on or thought about.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > School of Dental Medicine > Department of Preventive, Restorative and Pediatric Dentistry |
UniBE Contributor: |
Wolf, Thomas Gerhard, Campus, Guglielmo Giuseppe |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
ISSN: |
1661-7827 |
Publisher: |
MDPI |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Thomas Gerhard Wolf |
Date Deposited: |
07 Oct 2020 08:14 |
Last Modified: |
07 Aug 2024 15:45 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3390/ijerph17197296 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
future career; expectations; liberal dental practice; Europe; dental students |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.146887 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/146887 |
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