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Browsing Research Articles (Dental Management Sciences) by Issue Date
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White, John G.
(South African Dental Association, 2008-03)
Healthcare professionals are being challenged by a whole host of outside pressures and forces. The emerging healthcare environment and traditional ways of thinking are mutually exclusive. Innovative thinking is required ...
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Buch, B.; Fensham, R.; Maritz, M.P.
(South African Dental Association, 2009-09)
Concern among patients, often prompted by medical practitioners,
regarding the harmful effects of radiation caused by dental x-ray
procedures, has caused several patients of the dental school of the
University of Pretoria ...
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White, John G.
(South African Dental Association, 2010-07)
AIM: To develop and evaluate a teaching strategy for teaching communication skills in dentistry. METHODOLOGY: Phase I: Development and implementation of a course in communication skills. Phase II: Implementation of a ...
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Snyman, Lorraine; Visser, J.H.
(South African Dental Association, 2014-07)
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the study was to identify and
understand social media usage behaviour of dentists in
South Africa, in general and in particular as part of their marketing
strategy and to consider the potential ...
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Postma, Thomas Corne; White, John G.
(Wiley, 2015-05)
OBJECTIVE : The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical rationale for the
implementation of the Four Component Instructional Design Model for Complex
Learning (4C/ID-model) at the University of Pretoria with ...
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Postma, Thomas Corne
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2015-11)
BACKGROUND. In 2009 a new case-based instructional design was implemented
during the preclinical year of study of the undergraduate dental
curriculum of the University of Pretoria, South Africa. The objective of the ...
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Van der Berg-Cloete, S.E. (Sophy); Snyman, Lorraine; Postma, Thomas Corne; White, John G.
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2015-11)
BACKGROUND. The inclusion of ‘management’ competencies in medical curricula is widely propagated. There is some evidence in the literature that
undergraduate dental students regard clinical skills as more important than ...
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Postma, Thomas Corne; Bronkhorst, L.
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2015-11)
BACKGROUND. Medical and dental students often participate in joint basic science curricula, such as the basic science curriculum at the University of
Pretoria, South Africa. Reports from the USA and Australia, however, ...
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Ayo-Yusuf, Imade J.; Naidoo, S.; Ayo-Yusuf, Olalekan Abdulwahab
(South African Dental Association, 2016-02)
OBJECTIVE : To investigate the association between arealevel
socio-economic position (SEP) and oral health-related
quality of life (OHRQoL).
METHODS : Data collected from a nationally representative
sample of the South ...
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Snyman, Lorraine; Van der Berg-Cloete, S.E. (Sophy); White, John G.
(South African Dental Association, 2016-02)
OBJECTIVES : How do dentists perceive the influence of
the external environment on, and what is their confidence
in, planning the strategic management of their practices?
METHODS : A cross-sectional survey using an ...
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Mostert, Vanessa C.; Jonker, Casper Hendrik
(South African Dental Association, 2016-05)
The University of Pretoria Oral Health Centre (UPOHC) houses the School of Dentistry where dental, oral hygiene and post graduate students are trained. Dentists employed at the School of Dentistry generally do not complete ...
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Hornbeck, Patrick
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-08-19)
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, lord chancellor of England from 1515 to 1529, has played no small
part in the many literary, historical and dramatic retellings of the reign of King Henry VIII.
This article presents the first ...
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Postma, Thomas Corne; Mostert, Vanessa C.
(South African Dental Association, 2016-09)
INTRODUCTION : The University of Pretoria Oral Health Centre (UPOHC) is inundated by patients presenting with toothache, many requiring emergency pulpectomies (EPs). To date, the outcome of these procedures performed at ...
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Ayo-Yusuf, Olalekan Abdulwahab; Ayo-Yusuf, Imade J.; matjila, S.A.
(South African Dental Association, 2016-11)
OBJECTIVE : To investigate how differences in socio-economic
position (SEP) influence satisfaction with dental
services among South Africans.
METHODS : Data collected from a nationally representative
sample of the South ...
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Van der Berg-Cloete, S.E. (Sophy); Snyman, Lorraine; Postma, Thomas Corne; White, John G.
(American Dental Education Association, 2016-11)
Recent developmental frameworks suggest that dental curricula should focus on developing nonclinical skills in dental students. The aim of this study was to qualitatively map students’ perceptions of the most important ...
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Phalwane, M.G.; Postma, Thomas Corne; Ayo-Yusuf, Olalekan Abdulwahab
(South African Dental Association, 2016-11)
INTRODUCTION : There is a need to measure the social accountability
of dental students following service learning
(SL) exposure.
OBJECTIVES : To pilot the Community Service Attitudes
Scale (CSAS) and to test its ...
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Postma, Thomas Corne; White, John G.
(Wiley, 2017-02)
INTRODUCTION : There are no empirical studies that describe factors that may influence the development of integrated clinical reasoning skills in dental education. Hence, this study examines the association between outcomes ...
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Postma, Thomas Corne; White, John G.
(Wiley, 2017-02)
INTRODUCTION : “Relevance” is a key concept in adult learning. Hence this study
sought to examine students perceptions of relevance of the teaching and learning in relation to different instructional designs employed in ...
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Postma, Thomas Corne; White, John G.
(Wiley, 2017-05)
INTRODUCTION : Integration is a key concern in discipline-based undergraduate dental curricula. Therefore, this study compared feedback on integration from students who participated in different instructional designs in a ...
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Snyman, Lorraine; Van der Berg-Cloete, S.E. (Sophy); White, John G.
(South African Dental Association, 2017-06)
OBJECTIVES : The study investigated whether dentists in
South Africa are actively planning for retirement and if
they are confident about being able to retire as financially
independent.
METHODS : An anonymous online ...