JIDAM
"An Official Journal of IDA - Madras
Branch" ©2019.
Department of Public Health Dentistryz,
Thai Moogambigai Dental College and Hospital Chennai, Tamilnadu
BACKGROUND: Bachelor of dental surgery (BDS) is a five year undergraduate degree program. When student pass final BDS examination, they have to complete, compulsory one year of rotatory internship program. Internship is a period when the fresh graduates refine their skill; get the clinical and professional skill. And above all increase their community skill while dealing with the patient. But the Covid pandemic has affected the internship program of the fresh dental graduates. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the experiences & perception of interns of dental college during Covid-19 pandemic. METHODOLOGY: A cross sectional study was conducted among interns of VSPM’s Dental college & Research Centre, Nagpur. RESULTS: Out of 108 participants 93 (86%) of them said that Covid-19 crisis affected their internship training and achievement skill. 73 (68%) of them said decrease in patients during Covid-19 pandemic affected their skills and experience. 63 (58%) of interns did not preferred online learning experience over hands on experience while 23 (21%) of them preferred it. CONCLUSION: For the interns, internship is the bonus period where they refine their clinical skills. Due to the crisis they had got less exposure to patients due to decrease in number of patients. But at the same time they got a different experience while working in this pandemic situation. They learnt how to handle the situation while working in the pandemic situation.
Internship program , dental interns, Covid-19 pandemic.
Volume No: 9, Issue No: 2