Motivation Towards Career Choice of Brazilian Freshman Students in a Fifteen-Year Period

dc.creatorFreire, MDM
dc.creatorJordao, LMR
dc.creatorFerreira, ND
dc.creatorNunes, MD
dc.creatorQueiroz, MG
dc.creatorLeles, CR
dc.date2011
dc.dateJAN
dc.date2014-08-01T18:41:58Z
dc.date2015-11-26T17:57:32Z
dc.date2014-08-01T18:41:58Z
dc.date2015-11-26T17:57:32Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-29T00:41:05Z
dc.date.available2018-03-29T00:41:05Z
dc.identifierJournal Of Dental Education. Amer Dental Education Assoc, v. 75, n. 1, n. 115, n. 121, 2011.
dc.identifier0022-0337
dc.identifierWOS:000285956100014
dc.identifierhttp://www.repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/82287
dc.identifierhttp://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/82287
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/1291509
dc.descriptionExamining dental students' profiles and perspectives contributes to discussions concerning dental education and practice. This study aimed, first, to investigate Brazilian dental students' reasons for pursuing dentistry as an occupation and, secondly, to consider the professional expectations of freshman students at a Brazilian public university over a fifteen-year period. A cross-sectional study was performed using data from a self-administered questionnaire to all first-year students enrolled in the 1993-95 and 2006-08 periods at the Federal University of Goias, Brazil (n=376). A total of 296 students responded (response rate=78.7 percent). Frequency analysis and chi-square tests were used to compare frequencies between the two time periods. Job conception was cited as the primary reason for pursuing dentistry, and the students considered oral health promotion and oral disease prevention as the primary purposes of dentistry. Most students intended to serve both high and low socioeconomic populations and both private and public practices after graduation. The majority cited an interest in specializing in clinical fields, orthodontics being the most frequent option. Significant trends included a greater interest in health promotion and public services and specializing in aesthetic dentistry and implantology in the 2006-08 period. This study revealed significant differences in the freshman students' motivations and professional perspectives over time. Personal views and concepts about profession are major influencing factors for choosing dentistry as a career.
dc.description75
dc.description1
dc.description115
dc.description121
dc.languageen
dc.publisherAmer Dental Education Assoc
dc.publisherWashington
dc.publisherEUA
dc.relationJournal Of Dental Education
dc.relationJ. Dent. Educ.
dc.rightsaberto
dc.sourceWeb of Science
dc.subjectdental education
dc.subjectstudents
dc.subjectdental
dc.subjectcareer choice
dc.subjectprofessional practice
dc.subjectBrazil
dc.subjectDental Students
dc.subjectAttitudes
dc.titleMotivation Towards Career Choice of Brazilian Freshman Students in a Fifteen-Year Period
dc.typeArtículos de revistas


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