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Citation: Hanxue L, Zhi Z, Xiaoyan W, Lin J, Zhengyan Y (2022). The development of oral preventive medicine in China: a long way to go. J. Edu. Res. Rev. 10(2): 20-25. doi: 10.33495/jerr_v10i2.21.167.
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To understand the cognition and teaching needs of oral medical students from oral preventive medicine courses, so as to explore the improvement of oral preventive medicine. A questionnaire was designed to investigate all kinds of students studying in the Stomatological Hospital Affiliated to Chongqing Medical University. A total of 266 students enrolled and completed the questionnaire. 83.83% of the students were interested in oral prevention courses, 77.44% of the students were satisfied with the teaching mode of oral preventive medicine courses, but 79.70% of the students thought that the existing teaching methods needed to be improved and the teaching practice needed to be enriched. Students who had already practiced in oral prevention department believed that the future trend of oral preventive medicine in clinical application would significantly increase (p=0.009<0.05).(3) 95.49% of the students were willing to learn oral preventive health care, but less than 40.6% of them were willing to engage in preventive work after graduation. The students are vague about overall cognition of the oral preventive medicine. The lack of teaching practice weakens the students' understanding of the importance of theoretical knowledge of oral preventive medicine. Therefore, the development of oral preventive medicine has a long way to go.

Keywords  Preventive dentistry   practice teaching   teaching reform