Publications by authors named "Kirsty B Hill"
Article Synopsis
- The paper explores the evolution of dental education and research at the Birmingham School of Dentistry over 150 years since its opening in 1858.
- Throughout its history, the school has highlighted the importance of adaptability for dental professionals, especially with the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The author emphasizes that the future of dentistry holds exciting prospects for both education and research.
Introduction: Increasingly, dental education is using digital strategies to deliver teaching; however, not all of these learning materials are engaging and effective.
Aim: To evaluate the perception and knowledge retention of undergraduate dental students after using two different digital learning tools: quizzes and PDF.
Methods: Thirty-three students from a Dental School in the United Kingdom took part in the research.
Instant messaging (IM) is when users communicate instantly via their mobile devices, and it has become one of the most preferred choices of tools to communicate amongst health professions students. The aim of this study was to understand how dental students communicate via IM, faculty members' perspectives on using IM to communicate with students, and whether such tools are useful in the learning environment. After free-associating themes on online communication, two draft topic guides for structured interviews were designed that focussed on mobile device-related communication activities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: This study investigates the attributes of a 'good dentist' with respect to the opinions of dental patients, dental students and qualified dentists and determines whether the dental profession and its patients are in agreement with the standards published by the General Dental Council (GDC) in 2005. A questionnaire was circulated amongst the above groups at the University Of Birmingham, School of Dentistry. Each participant was asked to rank 14 attributes for a dentist in order of their importance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: The aim was to assess the oral health needs of homeless people in dedicated homeless dental units in London, Cardiff and Glasgow and a homeless shelter in Birmingham in order to allow recommendations for service delivery to be made for this socially excluded group.
Methodology: Two questionnaires were designed, one to be completed by homeless people and the other by members of the dental team. A total of seventeen staff working in homeless dentistry completed questionnaires.