PMID- 20646041
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20101101
LR  - 20100721
IS  - 1600-0579 (Electronic)
IS  - 1396-5883 (Linking)
VI  - 14
IP  - 3
DP  - 2010 Aug
TI  - Dental students' part-time jobs in dental practices in the Netherlands.
PG  - 151-4
LID - 10.1111/j.1600-0579.2009.00608.x [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVE: In the Netherlands, the Individual Health Care Professions Act (IHCP 
      Act) allows dental students, amongst other non-qualified individuals, to work 
      under certain conditions in a dental practice. The aim of the study was to 
      determine how many dental students have part-time employment in dental practice 
      and which professional tasks they carry out. We also asked the dental students 
      their opinion about the IHCP Act. MATERIAL AND METHODS: All the enrolled dental 
      students at the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA) in the Netherlands 
      received a questionnaire by e-mail. Within 1 month, two reminders were sent. 
      RESULTS: The response was 44% (427 students). Of the responding students, 71% had 
      paid employment in addition to their study. Twenty-five per cent of all students 
      worked in a dental practice, usually 8 h a week. Study year and age were 
      positively related to working part-time in dental practice. Activities frequently 
      performed were providing chair side assistance, giving oral hygiene instruction, 
      fluoride applications, scaling and root planning. The self-reported knowledge 
      about the IHCP Act was positively related to study year and working in a dental 
      practice. Hardly any information about the requirements of the IHCP Act with 
      regard to delegation of tasks was provided by the employer. CONCLUSION: Many 
      Dutch dental students work in a dental practice, taking over a variety of tasks. 
      Although the self-reported knowledge about the IHCP Act was relatively high, many 
      dental students expressed the need for more detailed information about the legal 
      aspects of their tasks.
FAU - Poorterman, J H G
AU  - Poorterman JH
AD  - Departments of Social Dentistry and Behavioural Sciences, Academic Centre for 
      Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), Amsterdam, the Netherlands. j.poorterman@acta.nl
FAU - Dikkes, B T
AU  - Dikkes BT
FAU - Brand, H S
AU  - Brand HS
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Eur J Dent Educ
JT  - European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for 
      Dental Education in Europe
JID - 9712132
RN  - 0 (Fluorides, Topical)
MH  - Adult
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Attitude of Health Personnel
MH  - Delegation, Professional/legislation & jurisprudence
MH  - Dental Assistants
MH  - Dental Scaling
MH  - *Employment
MH  - Female
MH  - Fluorides, Topical/therapeutic use
MH  - Health Education, Dental
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Netherlands
MH  - Oral Hygiene/education
MH  - *Preceptorship/legislation & jurisprudence
MH  - Root Planing
MH  - *Students, Dental/psychology
EDAT- 2010/07/22 06:00
MHDA- 2010/11/03 06:00
CRDT- 2010/07/22 06:00
PHST- 2010/07/22 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/07/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/11/03 06:00 [medline]
AID - EJE608 [pii]
AID - 10.1111/j.1600-0579.2009.00608.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Eur J Dent Educ. 2010 Aug;14(3):151-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0579.2009.00608.x.