Cheng Feng-Chou, Tang Li-Hua, Lee Kou-Jung, Lin Yueh-Tuan, Yang Fu-Hsien, Chen Mu-Hsiung, Chiang Chun-Pin
Chia-Te Dental Clinic, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
School of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
J Dent Sci. 2023 Jul;18(3):1354-1360. doi: 10.1016/j.jds.2023.05.004. Epub 2023 May 14.
BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: In Taiwan, dental radiology has a long history of development. However, there are very few dental radiology curricula in Taiwan's dental education system. This study explored preliminarily the dental radiology course designed for dentist continuing education in Taiwan.
This study used the method of dental radiology education survey by questionnaire to evaluate participating dentists' learning outcomes by assessing their perceptions of the dental radiology course.
In this study, 117 participating dentists filled out the questionnaires completely after the class of dentist continuing education. The results showed that most of participating dentists agreed that dental radiology courses were rare in dental school curriculum and dentist continuing education. Moreover, most of participating dentists found this course to be helpful in raising their basic knowledge and skill about dental radiology, their attitude towards dental radiology, and their interest in further learning of dental radiology. They were satisfied with the course. The degree of agreement for each question was high, and all the mean scores for each question were between 4.53 and 4.77. The numbers (rates) of respondents who answered as agree were between 105 and 113 (between 89.74% and 96.58%).
The dental radiology course contributed to an increase in dentists' basic knowledge and skill about dental radiology and their awareness and understanding of the importance of dental radiology. Considering the effectiveness of the dental radiology course on dentists' basic knowledge/skill and attitude of dental radiology, this model shows promise for further use in dentist continuing education.
背景/目的：在台湾，口腔放射学有着悠久的发展历史。然而，台湾牙科教育体系中的口腔放射学课程非常少。本研究初步探索了为台湾牙医继续教育设计的口腔放射学课程。
本研究采用问卷调查的口腔放射学教育调查方法，通过评估参与的牙医对口腔放射学课程的看法来评价他们的学习成果。
在本研究中，117名参与的牙医在完成牙医继续教育课程后完整填写了问卷。结果显示，大多数参与的牙医认为口腔放射学课程在牙科学院课程和牙医继续教育中很少见。此外，大多数参与的牙医发现该课程有助于提高他们关于口腔放射学的基础知识和技能、对口腔放射学的态度以及进一步学习口腔放射学的兴趣。他们对该课程感到满意。每个问题的同意程度都很高，每个问题的平均得分都在4.53至4.77之间。回答同意的受访者人数（比例）在105至113之间（在89.74%至96.58%之间）。
口腔放射学课程有助于提高牙医关于口腔放射学的基础知识和技能，以及他们对口腔放射学重要性的认识和理解。考虑到口腔放射学课程对牙医基础知识/技能和口腔放射学态度的有效性，该模式有望在牙医继续教育中进一步应用。
