Perception of Causes of Repetition Amongst Dentistry Students A Novel Experience with Content Analysis

ABSTRACT: To determine the perception of fourth-year dentistry students at a private Chilean university, regarding the causes of their course repetition. Open-ended questions were asked to 14 repeating students. The resulting narratives went through content analysis using QDA Miner Lite software. Th...

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Autores principales: Fernández-Montecinos,Enrique A, Padilla-Alvear,Paula A, Díaz-Yokens,Marco
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Publicado: Universidad de La Frontera. Facultad de Medicina 2021
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-381X20210001001252021-02-16Perception of Causes of Repetition Amongst Dentistry Students A Novel Experience with Content AnalysisFernández-Montecinos,Enrique APadilla-Alvear,Paula ADíaz-Yokens,Marco academic failure academic performance perception dentistry school ABSTRACT: To determine the perception of fourth-year dentistry students at a private Chilean university, regarding the causes of their course repetition. Open-ended questions were asked to 14 repeating students. The resulting narratives went through content analysis using QDA Miner Lite software. The category "non-fullfilment with clinical requirements" had the highest frequency of appearance (52.0 %). Codes with the highest frequency of appearance were "Lacked of time" (24.0%); "Lack of proper organization of time/patient’s agenda" (18.0 %) and "Lack of knowledge of the clinical dynamics" (16.0%). The tardiness and repeated absences of the patients were mentioned as the greatest difficulty faced by the students (18.0 %). Students perceive the reasons behind their repetition, differently. However aspects associated with compliance of clinical requirements and patients management are recurring issues. Content analysis is a useful tool for acquiring and analyzing data of complex phenomena as perspectives on university repetition among higher-level dentistry students.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de La Frontera. Facultad de MedicinaInternational journal of odontostomatology v.15 n.1 20212021-03-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-381X2021000100125en10.4067/S0718-381X2021000100125
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topic academic failure
academic performance
perception
dentistry school
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Fernández-Montecinos,Enrique A
Padilla-Alvear,Paula A
Díaz-Yokens,Marco
Perception of Causes of Repetition Amongst Dentistry Students A Novel Experience with Content Analysis
description ABSTRACT: To determine the perception of fourth-year dentistry students at a private Chilean university, regarding the causes of their course repetition. Open-ended questions were asked to 14 repeating students. The resulting narratives went through content analysis using QDA Miner Lite software. The category "non-fullfilment with clinical requirements" had the highest frequency of appearance (52.0 %). Codes with the highest frequency of appearance were "Lacked of time" (24.0%); "Lack of proper organization of time/patient’s agenda" (18.0 %) and "Lack of knowledge of the clinical dynamics" (16.0%). The tardiness and repeated absences of the patients were mentioned as the greatest difficulty faced by the students (18.0 %). Students perceive the reasons behind their repetition, differently. However aspects associated with compliance of clinical requirements and patients management are recurring issues. Content analysis is a useful tool for acquiring and analyzing data of complex phenomena as perspectives on university repetition among higher-level dentistry students.
author Fernández-Montecinos,Enrique A
Padilla-Alvear,Paula A
Díaz-Yokens,Marco
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title Perception of Causes of Repetition Amongst Dentistry Students A Novel Experience with Content Analysis
title_short Perception of Causes of Repetition Amongst Dentistry Students A Novel Experience with Content Analysis
title_full Perception of Causes of Repetition Amongst Dentistry Students A Novel Experience with Content Analysis
title_fullStr Perception of Causes of Repetition Amongst Dentistry Students A Novel Experience with Content Analysis
title_full_unstemmed Perception of Causes of Repetition Amongst Dentistry Students A Novel Experience with Content Analysis
title_sort perception of causes of repetition amongst dentistry students a novel experience with content analysis
publisher Universidad de La Frontera. Facultad de Medicina
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