Development and validation of scale for self evaluation of soft skills in postgraduate dental students

To develop and validate a soft skills questionnaire, and to use it for self-evaluation by postgraduate dentistry students. The cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted at University College of Dentistry, , University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan, from February 2020 to April 2020 and comprised...

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Published in:Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association 2021-01, Vol.71(Suppl 1) (1), p.S9-S13
Main Authors: Haseeb, Muhammad, Azfar, Muhammad Waheed, Ahmed, Myra, Tariq, Amina, Nawaz, Muhammad Sohaib, Sadiq, Ali
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Clinical Competence
Cross-Sectional Studies
Dental students
Diagnostic Self Evaluation
Educational aspects
Female
Graduate medical education
Humans
Male
Pakistan
Postgraduate medical education
Social skills
Social surveys
Students, Dental
Surveys
Surveys and Questionnaires
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Summary:To develop and validate a soft skills questionnaire, and to use it for self-evaluation by postgraduate dentistry students. The cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted at University College of Dentistry, , University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan, from February 2020 to April 2020 and comprised of residents from first to final year of training for either Masters in Dental Surgery or Fellowship of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan programmes. A soft skills questionnaire was generated and was validated through exploratory factor analysis of the elements and items of the questionnaire using SPSS 23. Of the 60 subjects, 37(61.7%) were MDS residents and 23(38.3%) were Fellowship residents. The mean age of the sample was 29.650±2.815 years, and 26(43.3%) subjects were males. The questionnaire was validated (p0.05). A self-generated questionnaire was successfully validated.
ISSN:0030-9982