OBJECTIVES The aim of the article is to analyse how to use the information technologies for the sanitary education and training in dentistry. This systematic review analyses how the use of these informatics technologies facilitate the dental team formation. The aim is to understand which informatics technologies MATERIALS AND METHODS The systematic review has been performed with PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta- Analyses), that is the guide line for the report of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of health operations. Has been done a checklist of 27 item and a flow diagram of four steps. A Systematic review of English/ other languages published articles has been performed first using PubMed, IEEE e Wiley Online Library. By launching same researches in any of the database emerged that PubMed is the most suitable for this review, and so was chosen as unique source for the systematic review. The time interval of the research has been 2017-2020. The “Journal Article” has been the type of article selected. The terms used for the research has been: Dentistry, dental, odontology, E-Learning and elearning. The bibliographic research in PubMed database identified 214 Journals. Then 153 has been excluded considering the report elegibility criteria, the language filters, the type of article, the publication status and year of publication. Among those 61 Journals there was a duplicate that has been eliminated. Through the screening (analysis of title and abstract) have been excluded 8 Journals because not inherent. Through the screening (analysis of the full text) have been excluded 9 more articles. The studies included in the qualitative summary are a total of 43. RESULTS It is possible to summarize the results underling that have been found all the informations researched for any article included in the qualitative summary. From all those informations derived that has been performed a high number of research especially in 2019, with a total number of 16. Another important data concern the recipient stakeholders: In all the articles the recipients of the research are always Universities. For what concern the activities proposed or performed for the e-learning, have been several and divided into 20 main typologies. Among these the most used have been: Video lecture, Mobile learning, Blended learning and e-learning platforms. CONCLUSIONS The use of information technologies has been positively evaluated. For what concern how to use the information technologies for the sanitary education and training in dentistry, among the macro categories of related to educational activities prevailed the simulations and the virtual laboratories. Moreover has been registered a high consolidation of the academic training activity. The evaluation of those proposed and/or used typologies has been on everage positive, registering only two cases of negative evaluation in the total. We hope to repeat the same research activity at the end of Covid-19 Emergency period, to better understand how informatics technologies changed during this period. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE Although there is no absolute evidence of the greater effectiveness of training mediated by information technologies, it is evident that they are increasingly used for basic and clinical training.
Systematic review on the use of information technology in dentistry education
Gentile E.
;Plantamura P.
2021-01-01
Abstract
OBJECTIVES The aim of the article is to analyse how to use the information technologies for the sanitary education and training in dentistry. This systematic review analyses how the use of these informatics technologies facilitate the dental team formation. The aim is to understand which informatics technologies MATERIALS AND METHODS The systematic review has been performed with PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta- Analyses), that is the guide line for the report of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of health operations. Has been done a checklist of 27 item and a flow diagram of four steps. A Systematic review of English/ other languages published articles has been performed first using PubMed, IEEE e Wiley Online Library. By launching same researches in any of the database emerged that PubMed is the most suitable for this review, and so was chosen as unique source for the systematic review. The time interval of the research has been 2017-2020. The “Journal Article” has been the type of article selected. The terms used for the research has been: Dentistry, dental, odontology, E-Learning and elearning. The bibliographic research in PubMed database identified 214 Journals. Then 153 has been excluded considering the report elegibility criteria, the language filters, the type of article, the publication status and year of publication. Among those 61 Journals there was a duplicate that has been eliminated. Through the screening (analysis of title and abstract) have been excluded 8 Journals because not inherent. Through the screening (analysis of the full text) have been excluded 9 more articles. The studies included in the qualitative summary are a total of 43. RESULTS It is possible to summarize the results underling that have been found all the informations researched for any article included in the qualitative summary. From all those informations derived that has been performed a high number of research especially in 2019, with a total number of 16. Another important data concern the recipient stakeholders: In all the articles the recipients of the research are always Universities. For what concern the activities proposed or performed for the e-learning, have been several and divided into 20 main typologies. Among these the most used have been: Video lecture, Mobile learning, Blended learning and e-learning platforms. CONCLUSIONS The use of information technologies has been positively evaluated. For what concern how to use the information technologies for the sanitary education and training in dentistry, among the macro categories of related to educational activities prevailed the simulations and the virtual laboratories. Moreover has been registered a high consolidation of the academic training activity. The evaluation of those proposed and/or used typologies has been on everage positive, registering only two cases of negative evaluation in the total. We hope to repeat the same research activity at the end of Covid-19 Emergency period, to better understand how informatics technologies changed during this period. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE Although there is no absolute evidence of the greater effectiveness of training mediated by information technologies, it is evident that they are increasingly used for basic and clinical training.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
