Perception about their specific abilities in third-year stomatology students. Cienfuegos, 2019

Background: the change towards skills-based education means a new learning culture. Understanding that each student progresses at different rates in the mastery of a skill implies knowing how to deal with their needs timely and personalize their trajectories. Objective: to describe the third year students Stomatology career perception about their specific abilities. Methods: descriptive, observational, cross-sectional study carried out at the Cienfuegos Specialties Stomatological Clinic. All the third year stomatology students who are in the fifth semester of a Clinical Operative subject participated in the research. Results: the students perceive that they must improve the skills, mainly in the preparation of the individual medical history in sections: oral exam and diagnosis. The 50% of the students make the questioning, identify habits and treatment plan very well. In clinical procedures, only the infiltrative anesthesia technique achieves a higher percentage at the upper level of the perception scale, represented by 83.3%. Conclusions: the students’ perception regarding the specific skills is in correspondence with the academic year they study. They think that they must improve most of them. The results presented allow the faculty to develop teaching strategies that contribute to the development of these skills.