Table 3 The proportion of the Iranian senior dental students (n = 438) who believed that the teaching methods used in the three phases of the national dental curriculum have been appropriate or completely appropriate, and the distribution of responses by sex and dental schools active years
From: Evaluation of national dental curriculum in Iran using senior dental students’ feedback
Total n (%) | Sex | P* | School working years | P* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male n (%) | Female n (%) | ≤ 15 years n (%) | > 15 years n (%) | ||||
Theoretical courses | 118 (34.6) | 46 (31.7) | 72 (36.7) | 0.336 | 47 (32.4) | 71 (36.2) | 0.47 |
Practical courses in the pre-clinical phase | 128 (33.7) | 54 (32.7) | 74 (34.4) | 0.730 | 45 (28.5) | 83 (37.4) | 0.07 |
Practical courses in the clinical phase | 109 (29.7) | 53 (33.8) | 56 (26.7) | 0.141 | 48 (30.6) | 61 (29.0) | 0.75 |