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Comparative Efficacy Of Video And Text Instructional Modalities For An Oral Surgery Technique Among Dental Students, Ho-Hyun Brian Sun, Jeffrey A. Elo, Grant D. Mcclendon, Hardev Singh, Chan M. Park Jul 2018

Comparative Efficacy Of Video And Text Instructional Modalities For An Oral Surgery Technique Among Dental Students, Ho-Hyun Brian Sun, Jeffrey A. Elo, Grant D. Mcclendon, Hardev Singh, Chan M. Park

Pacific Journal of Health

Purpose: To gauge the efficacy of video media in pre-doctoral oral and maxillofacial surgery education and compare it to traditional text-based learning materials.

Methods: Twenty novice dental students were randomly divided into two groups to place an Erich arch bar to the maxillary dentition of a dentoform. Group A was given a 10 minute video instruction while Group B was given 10 minutes to review written text instruction. All participants were given 45 minutes to place the arch bar on a dentoform while being recorded. This session concluded with a survey of student perceptions using the SEEQ. The …