Abstract:

Factors such as talent, character, tendencies, and the person’s self-recognition are important factors that influence professional success. The aim of this study is to evaluate the students of the Faculty of Dentistry of Suleyman Demirel University’s opinions on the factors in their career preferences, their expectations in the training process and the need for doctoral/specialist training. Students of the Dental School of Medicine have been given information about the study. The answers to the survey forms that 182 students who participated voluntarily in the study filled between classes I-V were rated in percentage. A total of 105 girls, 77 men, 37 of the class I, 47 of the class II, participated in the study. Class 4th, Class 4th, Class 4th and Class 4th. 27 is a student of the V class. At the beginning of the reasons for participants to choose dentistry as a profession, 53.3 per cent is the option "they want to be a dentist or dentist, but they win the faculty of dentistry due to their score rankings in the university entrance examinations." It was observed that the majority of participants prefered dentistry after medicine or other professions was 65.4%. The Dentistry training process, although it is found to be in accordance with the expectations of 35% of students, and by other students; the duration could be shorter 41% or longer 14.8%. Moreover, a large majority of 80.2 percent of them found that doctoral/specialist training is necessary after a bachelor’s degree. The study finds that the factors that influence students’ career preferences are first “pointed” and then “family’s desire”. In the study, in relation to the educational process, different opinions were observed between students. The need for a doctoral/specialist education is accepted by the vast majority of students

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