AN ASSESSMENT OF DENTAL STUDENTS SATISFACTION WITH THE TEACHING METHODOLOGIES EMPLOYED AT DENTAL COLLEGES

Introduction: In the today's competitive world there is a great need of quality assurance among each and every field especially education. Despite their extraordinary infrastructure many institutes fail to provide quality education to the students. In such circumstances purpose of our study was mainly focused toward having an insight of the quality of education in the field of dentistry. And also with the advent of modern educational methodologies, the learner has the major role in deciding his learning styles, so this study also focuses on what and how students want in their curriculum. Methods: This research was cross sectional and it used a questionnaire based survey to evaluate the degree of student satisfaction regarding teaching methodologies followed at their dental colleges. The data was analyzed using SPSS v 17.0. Results: The results obtained by our research showed a high degree of satisfaction among the dental students regarding their teaching methodology. The result obtained was that none of the student showed signs of high dissatisfaction but there were 16/127 i.e. 12.6% of the students who were Dissatisfied and remaining 87.4% i.e. 111/127 of the students were satisfied in which 23/127 18.1% were greatly satisfied with their teachers' way of educating them. Conclusion: This research provided a proposal to all the dental colleges of Pakistan that they should keep a record of what the students want. This provides the student an encouragement to express their views and also enable the students to take a central role in the system of education.