Working experience is not a predictor of good communication: Results from a controlled trial with simulated patients.

Introduction: The importance of good communication in dentistry is proven in terms of both medical satisfaction and patient-related recovery and prevention. The present work deals with the comparison of communicative abilities and the communicative self-assessment of licensed dentists as well as students of dentistry with special emphasis on the influence of the treatment experience.

Materials And Methods: A total of 34 dentists (experimental group) with an average work experience of 16 years and 36 students (control group) with an average of 1.

Design and evaluation of an IPE module at the beginning of professional training in medicine, nursing, and physiotherapy.

Aim: Interprofessional education (IPE) is a central feature of modern education in the health care professions. Despite this, empirically founded and systematically structured IPE courses are absent from many curricula. To answer the WHO's call for improved interprofessional collaboration in the health care system, a seminar was designed, implemented and evaluated.

Oral hygiene-related self-efficacy as a predictor of oral hygiene behaviour: a prospective cohort study.

Aim: The aim of this study was to assess whether oral hygiene-related self-efficacy is correlated with current oral hygiene and might influence the outcome of oral hygiene instruction.

Materials And Methods: Hundred and twenty-six patients filled out questionnaires about oral hygiene-related self-efficacy, general self-efficacy, oral hygiene-related knowledge and demographic variables. Plaque and gingival inflammation were measured and an individual oral hygiene plan was conducted.