Acceptance of video‐based teaching in paediatric dentistry by undergraduate dental students

Abstract

Five cohorts of undergraduate students (n = 160) were filmed on video tape while performing paediatric treatments. Sequences of these recordings were shown 1 day later and discussed. Thus, within one term each student was able to view himself as well as fellow students on video. After the completion of the clinical course in paediatric dentistry, students were asked by means of a questionnaire about the acceptance and benefits of video-based teaching in paediatric dentistry. 95.5% welcomed the use of video in paediatric dentistry. Concerning the benefits gained from the video showing the treatment that had been performed by the student himself, 83.4% said they had gained new insights in their own behaviour and 80.3% thought these insights to be useful for their clinical work. For the video showing treatments by fellow students, numbers were higher: 84.7 and 89.8%, respectively. Gender-specific differences revealed that women feel more disturbed by the fact that they are being filmed (7.8% vs. 14.9%), some even think that they would have performed a better treatment without the video. Out of four didactical means, video gained the highest vote, followed by seminars, lectures and slides. It is concluded that the use of video is a valuable didactical means that should be considered in teaching undergraduate students.

The effect of viewing video clips of paediatric local anaesthetic administration on the confidence of undergraduate dental students

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A qualitative study examining the preparedness of dental hygiene students for a service‐learning placement in residential aged care

“…(19)(20)(21). It has also been shown to have beneficial effects for the development of interpersonal and communication skills especially in demanding psychological situations (22).…”

Hand‐held video for clinical skills teaching

“…For example, Kneebone (Kneebone et al ., 2002, 2005, Bjork (Bjork & Kirkevold, 2000) and Kalwitzki (Kalwitzki et al ., 2003) all used at least two fixed cameras with associated sound, remote monitors and remote control systems. This amounts to quite a lot of cumbersome and expensive equipment and it is easy to see how it might be much easier to equip a simulation suite with it than to try to create and secure a semi-permanent installation in a busy public ward.…”

“…The proposition behind most of the published work found was that the educational process is enhanced if individual students have the opportunity to watch themselves in action performing some procedure and then to reflect on their performance. This can be interpersonal (Crute et al ., 1989;Mallett, 1990;Burnard, 1991;Minardi & Ritter, 1999;Pinsky & Wipf, 2000) or technical (Kneebone et al ., 2002(Kneebone et al ., , 2005Kalwitzki et al ., 2003) or both. For example, in a study involving dental students, Kalwitzki found that the students tended to select the more personally challenging rather than technically challenging examples as subjects for review (Kalwitzki et al ., 2003).…”