Te Whatu Ora, Health New Zealand, New Zealand.
Sir John Walsh Research Institute, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago, 310 Great King Street, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2024 Sep;28(3):1339-1351. doi: 10.1007/s10006-024-01261-y. Epub 2024 May 27.
To explore the ability of Dental Students (DS), Medical Students (MS), Trainee Interns (TI) and Pre-vocational Junior Doctors (JD) in identifying procedures performed by Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS), the scope of practice (SOP) of OMS and ability to differentiate OMS from similar specialities.
The study included 282 complete responses to a survey consisting of: 9 demographic questions, 11 OMS awareness, professional ambition, teaching and exposure, confidence in identifying and referring questions and 70 procedural/scenario questions across four domains. Collected data was qualitatively and statistically analysed using SPSS V29.
OMS awareness was limited. 92.2% reported None to Small amount of OMS teaching and exposure during university, with 66.0% preferring to have had a Fair to Significant amount. DS experienced more than medical respondents (2.1 vs. 1.5, p < 0.001). Most respondents reported No to Low confidence in identifying the SOP and procedures performed by OMS (67.7%) and referring to OMS (62.4%) compared to similar specialities (32.4% and 33.2%, respectively). 52.9% of procedures performed by OMS were correctly identified as being performed by OMS. The ability to identify the OMS SOP (8.7%) and differentiate OMS from similar specialities (5.0%) was low, however better among DS than medical respondents (14.9% vs. 6.3%, p = 0.002 and 12.2% vs. 2.2%, p < 0.001).
The study has highlighted a deficit in the understanding of OMS with potential implications in the public and private healthcare sector. Identification of procedures, OMS SOP and ability to differentiate OMS from similar specialities is limited however slightly better among DS.
探讨牙科学生（DS）、医学生（MS）、实习医生（TI）和初级职业医生（JD）在识别口腔颌面外科（OMS）所进行的程序、OMS 的执业范围（SOP）以及区分 OMS 与类似专业的能力。
这项研究包括对一项调查的 282 项完整回复，该调查包括 9 个人口统计学问题、11 个 OMS 意识、职业抱负、教学和接触、识别和转诊问题的信心以及 70 个程序/情景问题，涵盖四个领域。使用 SPSS V29 对收集的数据进行定性和统计分析。
OMS 意识有限。92.2%的人报告在大学期间接受的 OMS 教学和接触很少，有 66.0%的人希望接受适量至大量的教学和接触。DS 比医学受访者体验到更多的教学和接触（2.1 比 1.5，p<0.001）。大多数受访者报告在识别 OMS 的 SOP 和进行的程序以及转诊给 OMS 方面的信心程度较低（分别为 67.7%和 62.4%），而对类似专业的信心程度则较高（分别为 32.4%和 33.2%）。52.9%的 OMS 进行的程序被正确识别为 OMS 进行的程序。识别 OMS SOP（8.7%）和区分 OMS 与类似专业（5.0%）的能力较低，但 DS 比医学受访者要好（14.9%比 6.3%，p=0.002 和 12.2%比 2.2%，p<0.001）。
该研究强调了对 OMS 的理解存在不足，这可能对公共和私营医疗保健部门产生影响。对程序、OMS SOP 和区分 OMS 与类似专业的能力的识别有限，但 DS 稍好一些。
