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Correlation of psychomotor skills and didactic performance among dental students in Saudi Arabia

Authors Afify AR, Zawawi KH , Othman HI, Al-Dharrab AA

Received 20 August 2013

Accepted for publication 12 September 2013

Published 16 October 2013 Volume 2013:4 Pages 223—226

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S53319

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Ahmed R Afify,1 Khalid H Zawawi,1 Hisham I Othman,2 Ayman A Al-Dharrab3

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Department of Preventive Dental Sciences, 2Department of Basic Oral and Clinical Sciences, 3Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Rehabilitation, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Objectives: The objective of this study is to investigate the correlation between the psychomotor skills and the academic performance of dental students.
Methods: Didactic and preclinical scores were collected for students who graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2011. Three courses (Dental Anatomy, Removable Prosthodontic Denture, and Orthodontics) were selected. Correlations comparing didactic and practical scores were done for the total samples, then for the males and females separately.
Results: There was no significant correlation between the practical and didactic scores for the three courses for the total sample. There was a significant correlation between all three subjects in the didactic scores. For females, the results showed that there was only a significant correlation between the practical and didactic scores for Dental Anatomy. For males, no correlation was observed between the practical and didactic scores for all subjects.
Conclusion: In the present sample, didactic performance did not correlate well with the students' psychomotor performance.

Keywords: psychomotor performance, didactic performance, dental students, correlation study, dental education, practical performance

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