PMID- 34520609
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220408
LR  - 20220716
IS  - 1600-0579 (Electronic)
IS  - 1396-5883 (Print)
IS  - 1396-5883 (Linking)
VI  - 26
IP  - 2
DP  - 2022 May
TI  - The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on student performance and self-evaluation in 
      preclinical operative dentistry.
PG  - 377-383
LID - 10.1111/eje.12713 [doi]
AB  - INTRODUCTION: During the COVID-19 pandemic, dental schools were required to 
      reformat their curricula to accommodate regulations mandated to protect the 
      health of students and faculty. For students enrolled in the Operative Dentistry 
      preclinical courses at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM), this 
      modified curriculum included frontloading the course with lectures delivered 
      remotely, followed by in-person laboratory exercises of learned concepts. The aim 
      of this article was to determine the impact that the modifications had on student 
      performance and student self-evaluation capabilities. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 
      Thirty-eight students were introduced to this restructured course. Their 
      performance in a final multiple-choice (MC) examination, four preclinical 
      laboratory competency assessments (class II amalgam preparation and restoration, 
      class III composite preparation and restoration) and their self-assessment of 
      these preclinical competency assessments were then compared with the pre-COVID 
      pandemic (P-CP) classes from years 2014 to 2019 (n = 216 students). Linear 
      regressions were performed to determine differences in mean faculty scores, 
      self-assessment scores, student-faculty score gaps (S-F gaps) and absolute S-F 
      gaps seen between the class impacted by the pandemic and the P-CP classes. 
      RESULTS: The results demonstrated that students during the COVID-19 pandemic 
      (D-CP) had a higher average faculty score in all four preclinical laboratory 
      competency assessments and in the final MC examination. In addition, the S-F gap 
      was smaller in this cohort as compared with the P-CP classes. CONCLUSION: Despite 
      the challenges of restructuring the preclinical curricula, D-CP students 
      performed better than their P-CP predecessors in multiple facets of this 
      Operative Dentistry course including self-assessment accuracy.
CI  - (c) 2021 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
FAU - Inoue, Natalie
AU  - Inoue N
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2917-7593
AD  - Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
FAU - Aldosari, Muath
AU  - Aldosari M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2200-2408
AD  - Department of Periodontics and Community Dentistry, King Saud University College 
      of Dentistry, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
AD  - Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental 
      Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
FAU - Park, Sang E
AU  - Park SE
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2575-7635
AD  - Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences, Harvard School of 
      Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
FAU - Ohyama, Hiroe
AU  - Ohyama H
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3599-1671
AD  - Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences, Harvard School of 
      Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210918
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
MH  - *COVID-19
MH  - Clinical Competence
MH  - Curriculum
MH  - *Dentistry, Operative/education
MH  - Diagnostic Self Evaluation
MH  - Education, Dental/methods
MH  - Educational Measurement/methods
MH  - Humans
MH  - Pandemics
MH  - Self-Assessment
MH  - Students, Dental
PMC - PMC8652620
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - COVID-19 pandemic
OT  - preclinical dentistry
OT  - predoctoral education
OT  - self-evaluation
OT  - student performance
EDAT- 2021/09/15 06:00
MHDA- 2022/04/09 06:00
PMCR- 2021/09/18
CRDT- 2021/09/14 17:33
PHST- 2021/08/17 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/06/25 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/09/01 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/09/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/04/09 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/09/14 17:33 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/09/18 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - EJE12713 [pii]
AID - 10.1111/eje.12713 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Eur J Dent Educ. 2022 May;26(2):377-383. doi: 10.1111/eje.12713. Epub 2021 Sep 
      18.