Online Versus Real Time Dental Education

What is More Effective Online Versus Real Time Dental Education

Through covid period the concept of distant, online and hybrid learning evolved in reaction to lockdown. This hindered the capability of students to receive and practice on patients as they should do. The current study compared data of two classes that had different education systems because of COVID-19. Class 2020 had nearly a complete online teaching of theoretical part, practical and minimal patient interaction. Class 2021 had the opportunity to try both systems because of partial lockdown in 2020 and complete return to work in 2021.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Educational Problems
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: online teaching; Other: In class teaching

Detailed Description

Methodology

Evaluation of the quality of teaching of oral surgery curriculum during the COVID 19 lock down.

The Objective Achieving high quality teaching in similar future situations. The Standards used for evaluation. The course report published by the faculty student's affair section and the students survey.

ETHICS & ENGAGEMENT This data was collected from the course report published by the faculty student's affair section. All students shared in the survey consented that their data can be used and presented for research and audit purposes. All adjunctive research presented in this audit got ethical clearance from the Faculty Ethical Committee.

sample Fourth year students studying oral surgery had online teaching and forty students had real time teaching.

Survey Questions A short five-question survey was used to assess the students overall and was given to 40 students from each class to assess the student's satisfaction with the quality of the education.

The survey questions:

1. Technical skills taught during the academic year were valuable or not.
2. real patients provide higher skills compared to dummies and models
3. Teaching in real classroom is better than teaching through online portal
4. do you prefer introudction of dummies before real time patients
5. Regarding the overall satisfaction by the education system The survey portal had a percentage satisfactory meter. Responses over 50% or equal 50% were considered yes and responses below 50% were considered no.

Statistical assessment:

Chi-square test was used to assess the statistical significance between the results using SPSS software.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 80
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Egypt
  • Cairo, Egypt, 11757
    • Ain Shams University
  • Cairo, Egypt, 11361
    • Faculty Of Dentistry Ain Shams University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• fourth year students attending normally in ain shams university

Exclusion Criteria:

• any student who is repeating or had this course before

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Quadruple

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: online teaching; Teaching was done completely online	Other: online teaching; teaching of subject was done using online system only
Active Comparator: Conventional class room; Teaching was done completely offline in classroom	Other: In class teaching; subjects were explained in normal class room

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
effectiveness of online teaching	through a survey 40 students will volunteer for online teaching education survey assessment	3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Ain Shams University
• Investigators: Study Chair: Mohamed diaa, Ain Shams

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Haridy R, Abdalla MA, Kaisarly D, Gezawi ME. A cross-sectional multicenter survey on the future of dental education in the era of COVID-19: Alternatives and implications. J Dent Educ. 2021 Apr;85(4):483-493. doi: 10.1002/jdd.12498. Epub 2020 Dec 1.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2022
• Primary Completion (Actual): January 1, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): January 1, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 21, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 21, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): August 24, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 24, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 21, 2023
• Last Verified: August 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 21/8/2023asu

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

IPD Plan Description

Introduction: Through covid period the concept of distant, online and hybrid learning evolved in reaction to lockdown. This hindered the capability of students to receive and practice on patients as they should do.

Methodology: The current study compared data of two classes that had different education systems because of COVID-19.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No