An Appraisal of Dental Students’ Perception of Integrating Reflective Practice into the Curriculum: A Pre–Post Intervention Study
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: AIM: To evaluate dental students' perception of reflective practice before and after an educational intervention. Second, to investigate how it might be more effectively incorporated into dental education. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A 2-hour session for reflective writing instructions was done as a group discussion and feedback between the instructor and the learners. A template for reflection based on Gibbs' reflective cycle was used. Fifty-one third-year dental students (academic year 2023-2024) participated in this study. Forty-four students consented and filled out an anonymous pre-session electronic survey. The survey comprised two parts including demographics (two questions) and reflective skills related part (11 questions). Twenty-nine students consented and filled out an anonymous post-session electronic survey. The survey included the same parts as the previous, as well as added opinion-related questions (2 questions). RESULTS: = 8, 27.6%). There was a statistically significant difference in the evaluation of dental students' perception of reflective practice before and after the session, favoring progress in reflective skills related to their capacity for self-assessment, reflection-on-action, and peer learning. Pre-session sex disparity was resolved after the session. CONCLUSION: Dental students' perception of reflective practice enhanced after the educational intervention, and they favored its integration into the curriculum by organized group discussion. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE: . An Appraisal of Dental Students' Perception of Integrating Reflective Practice into the Curriculum: A Pre-Post Intervention Study. J Contemp Dent Pract 2024;25(12):1084-1091.
Institution: King Abdulaziz University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408219686