Five hundred and seventy-eight dental students from the Catholic University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands), graduated between 1982 and 1990, were asked by questionnaire to give their opinion on their undergraduate dental training. Most respondents thought the undergraduate dental education prepared them reasonably well for general practice. Yet imperfections in the education were noticed. These imperfections show resemblance and slight differences from a similar survey in ACTA, the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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J Coll Physicians Surg Pak
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Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Frontier Medical and Dental College, Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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