CAREER PLANS OF GRADUATES OF A CANADIAN DENTAL SCHOOL: PRELIMINARY REPORT OF A 5-YEAR SURVEY.

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2016-07-01

Usama Nassar, Connor Fairbanks, Carlos Flores-Mir, Alan Kilistoff, Rick Easton

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Objective: Comprehensive data on the characteristics and opinions of graduating dental students in Canada are lacking. Specifically, only minimal information is available on graduates' immediate career plans and factors that may influence their decisions regarding these plans. Our aim was to gather such data to allow better understanding of this issue and improve the design of future studies on this topic.

Methods: The Career Development Committee at the school of dentistry, University of Alberta, designed a short survey to be administered to graduating students over 5 years to gain insight into their immediate career plans and opinions on career services at the school. Preliminary results from 2012-2014 are reported here.

Results: With a response rate of close to 90% (n = 99/111), the data reveal considerable differences in immediate career plans between the surveyed students and those in other schools in Canada and the United States. Of the students, 89% were planning to work in a general dental practice and only 9% were planning to enroll in advanced education, including general practice residency training.

Conclusion: More research is needed to better understand the factors affecting career path decisions of students.

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加拿大一所牙科学校毕业生的职业规划:五年调查的初步报告。

目的:缺乏关于加拿大牙科毕业生特点和意见的综合资料。具体来说，关于毕业生近期职业规划和可能影响他们对这些规划做出决定的因素的信息很少。我们的目的是收集这些数据，以便更好地理解这一问题，并改进关于这一主题的未来研究设计。方法:阿尔伯塔大学牙科学院职业发展委员会设计了一项简短的调查，对5年以上的毕业生进行调查，以了解他们近期的职业规划和对学校就业服务的意见。2012-2014年的初步结果报告在这里。结果:调查的回复率接近90% (n = 99/111)，数据显示被调查学生与加拿大和美国其他学校的学生在近期职业规划方面存在相当大的差异。在这些学生中，89%的人计划在全科牙科诊所工作，只有9%的人计划参加高等教育，包括全科住院医师培训。结论:需要更多的研究来更好地了解影响学生职业道路决策的因素。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.