Title

Dentistry as a prospective career choice in India

Authors

RN Arun Kishore¹, K Yuvaraj Babu^2* & R Gayatri Devi³

Affiliation

¹Saveetha Dental College and hospital, Saveetha institute of medical and technical sciences, Chennai- 77, India; ²Department of Anatomy, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha institute of medical and technical sciences, Chennai -77, India; ³Department of Physiology, Saveetha Dental College and Hospital, Saveetha institute of medical and technical sciences, Chennai- 77, India

Email

Dr. Yuvaraj Babu K - E-mail: yuvarajbabu@saveetha.com, Corresponding author*

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received October 7, 2020; Revised October 27, 2020; Accepted October 27, 2020; Published December 31, 2020

Career choice is a complex decision in a student’s life. The opportunity to participate in dental education in many countries, especially in the developing ones, is limited to a small percentage of the community. There is a wide range of options for students to choose as a career
in general family, gender, personal interest; outcome expectancies can affect the decision in choosing it. Many studies showed that many individuals find themselves in occupations not really knowing why they made that particular decision. The changing nature of the dental
workforce and the need to retain the services of future members has made it important to understand why current dental students have chosen dentistry as their career. However, the choice of dentistry becomes forceful at times by peer pressure, cultural thrust or inability to
procure medicine. It is of interest to evaluate dentistry as a prospective career choice in India. The participants answered a questionnaire based online survey and the results were collected and analysed statistically. Analyses of data from the survey shows that majority
(36.72%) of students had chosen dentistry as a career choice having missed entry or selection into medicine.

Keywords

Career choice; dentistry; dental survey; career in dentistry.

Citation

Arun Kishore et al. Bioinformation 16(12): 1134-11138 (2020)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.