Volume : 8, Issue : 3, March - 2019

Prospective of Oral Pathology as Profession in jammu & kashmir dental students - A Cross Sectional Study

Dr Nidhi Khajuria, Dr Ruchira Jain

Abstract :

Background: Choosing a postgraduate anch in dentistry after bachelor’s degree is quite complex and difficult, as all specialties have their own where all anches have their own importance and applicability. In such situation dental graduate should evaluate his own capability and interest rather than any pressure or persuasion from his friends or parents and hence accordingly make his selection for post-graduation specialization. The ambitions of an aspiring candidate in a particular specialty in turn contribute a lot for the future of that specialty especially in oral pathology which has the responsibility of diagnosing and eradicating precancerous and cancerous lesions. So, the study aimed to determine the fact whether the dental students in private and government dental colleges in jammu & kashmir are intersting in choosing oralpathology as a postgraduate anch after B.D.S. Methods: A questionnaire-based study was conducted among 400 students of third year,final year and interns of B.D.S The questionnaire consisted of eight close ended and one open ended items which included career choice-related questions and demographic (age and gender) data. Finally, data was collected and presented as frequency distribution. Results: Overall majority of students choose clinical department as choice about 65% (260/400) and 25% (100/400) were those who wanted to done postgraduation in oralpathology. 10% (40/400) students shown no interest in doing postgraduation after B.D.S. Conclusions: Mostly under graduate dental students have shown interset in clinical anch for the postgraduation that may be due to more oppertunities in clinical department and more private practice. `