The Opinion of Dental Students of Kerman Iran Regarding their Achievement Level in Learning Objectives of Pediatric Dentistry Courses

Background & Objective: Pediatric dentistry is one of the basic sciences related to oral health The aim of the present study is to assess the opinion of dental students of Kerman Iran concerning education in preclinical and clinical pediatrics in order to determined shortcomings and deficiencies   Methods: This crosssectional study was performed on students who choose practical pediatric dentistry courses Data collection was performed by a questionnaire which includes two parts demographic characteristics and educational aims of pediatric dentistry courses Students independent ttest ANOVA and chisquare were applied to analyze the data by SPSS software   Results: Results showed that ۳۸۹% of students in the Pediatric۱ course evaluated their satisfaction with achieving educational aims as quite satisfactory ۴۷۲% as satisfactory and ۱۳۹% as unsatisfactory   The Pediatric ۲ and ۳ courses were evaluated as quite satisfactory by ۵۴۳% and ۳۵۵% of students satisfactory by ۲۵۷% and ۵۸۱% and unsatisfactory by ۲۰% and ۶۵% respectively   Conclusion: In the Pediatric ۳ course more than ۹۰% of students evaluated their achievement of educational aims as quite satisfactory or satisfactory It seems that with increase in the number of courses passed the level of achievement of educational aims also increases