TY  - JOUR
T1  - Evaluating the Pandemic's Effect on Clinical Skill Development Among Dental Students
A1  - Hadil Shaiba
A1  - Maya John
A1  - Souham Meshoul
JF  - Annals Journal of Dental and Medical Assisting
Y1  - 2024
VL  - 4
IS  - 1
SP  - 30
EP  - 37
N2  - Many policies are being put in place to ensure that during the pandemic, human-to-human contact is minimized. The importance of screening and triaging patients before starting any dental procedures is heavily emphasized. Dentists are advised to wear face shields, facemasks (preferably N-95), and personal protective equipment (PPE) kits. Our study intends to fill in the gaps in the previous papers by comparing the clinical skills of undergraduate students at King Saud University in the COVID-19 clinical scenario to those of students who hadn't studied dentistry under the same circumstances. Four groups of undergraduate students representing various undergrad batches and their corresponding clinical performance over their undergraduate years participated in cross-sectional questionnaire-based research. Graduates served as the control group for interns since they graduated without the COVID-19 precautions having an impact on their clinical performance. We enquired about a fifth-year student's clinical performance both with and without the safeguards. Additionally, we found no discernible difference in the simple situations (S, S+). One of the advanced case criteria (M, M+, M++) showed a notable variation, nevertheless, with M denoting the least complex form and M++ denoting the most complex, depending on the severity of the situation and the number of specialties involved. When comparing undergraduate dentistry students at King Saud University who studied COVID-19 precautions to those who did not, the former's clinical performance suffered.
UR  - https://tsdp.net/article/evaluating-the-pandemics-effect-on-clinical-skill-development-among-dental-students-q5krn4xq5iaeeuy
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