Abstract
BackgroundA new corona virus called COVID-19 and its epidemic has affected health care systems in many ways. There have also been significant changes in dental education. The present study summarizes the findings about dental education resulting from a scoping review of COVID-19 and dentistry.MethodsFirst, a comprehensive search of five databases (Google Scholar, Medline through PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Cochrane Central) was conducted with the keywords: COVID-19 and its equivalent terms, dentistry, education, oral, students, curriculum, and academics. Articles related to oral health and COVID-19 were searched. Then articles on the subject of dental education were screened and reviewed.ResultsOf the 1389 articles investigating COVID-19 and dentistry, 135 articles were related to dental education and its relationship with COVID-19. The most articles in this field were from the United States, India, and Saudi Arabia. Most of the articles were cross-sectional and then review articles. Based on the review the articles were divided into two main categories of changes and concerns, and opportunities and solutions. Moreover, the following themes were extracted: teaching-learning quality and methods, study career and how students are prepared, infection control policies, theses, exams and assessments, financial and economic security, students and staff’s mental health, school’s policies and curricula, knowledge of students and staff about COVID-19.ConclusionsDental education now faces big challenges, some of which have never been experienced before. On the other hand, the epidemic has created opportunities for dental education as well. Most of these challenges and opportunities are the same around the world, and the findings of the present study can be a good help to overcome the challenges ahead as well as a good reference to find the right questions to be answered in future studies.
Highlights
The emergence of the new Corona Virus called SARSCov-2 or Collaborative OMS Virtual Inter-Institutional Didactic (COVID)-19 in December 2019, and the announcement of its widespread infection as pandemic in March 11, 2020 by World Health Organization (WHO), has prominently affected the pattern of health care systems in several aspects [1]
Despite some other health care services, most dental services can be delivered only through close contact with patients. Since it is not possible for the patients to wear a mask during dental treatment, the whole responsibility of protection relies on the shoulder of oral health professionals [5]
The present study summarizes the findings on the dental education resulted from a scoping review on COVID-19 and dentistry
Summary
The emergence of the new Corona Virus called SARSCov-2 or COVID-19 in December 2019, and the announcement of its widespread infection as pandemic in March 11, 2020 by WHO, has prominently affected the pattern of health care systems in several aspects [1]. Despite some other health care services, most dental services can be delivered only through close contact with patients. Since it is not possible for the patients to wear a mask during dental treatment, the whole responsibility of protection relies on the shoulder of oral health professionals [5]. Farrokhi et al BMC Medical Education (2021) 21:587 Among these changes, the use of tele-dentistry (TD) can be mentioned as one of the suggestions. A new corona virus called COVID-19 and its epidemic has affected health care systems in many ways. The present study summarizes the findings about dental education resulting from a scoping review of COVID-19 and dentistry
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