Jorge Tricio

• BDS, MSc, FHEA, PhD
• Full Professor at University of the Andes, Chile

Introduction: Peer-assessment is increasingly used in health education. The aims of the present study were to evaluate the reliability, accuracy, educational impact and student’s perceptions of an undergraduate pre-clinical and clinical dental students’ structured and prospective peer-assessment and peer-feedback protocol. Materials and Methods: Tw...

Objectives: To develop and pilot a modified DOPS form to enable peer-assessment and feedback of clinical performance of undergraduate BDS Year-2 and Year-5 students. Methods: The general contents and anchor scale of standard DOPS forms were adapted for peer-assessment. For BDS-2 assessment domains were mapped against the Conservative Dentistry cou...

Objective: To evaluate the academic and reflection effects of a longitudinal, formative, structured peer-assessment protocol of clinical performance, as a framework for immediate peer-feedback of undergraduate students. Method: Eighty-three volunteer BDS year-5 students completed an online version of the Kember’s Reflective Questionnaire (RQ) at...

Objectives: To investigate the reliability, validity and acceptability of a Structured Clinical Reasoning Examination (SCRE). Methods: The SCRE was developed to assess year-5 students’ communication skills and ability to evaluate, understand and apply deep knowledge to structured clinical scenarios across four domains: Oral Disease; Primary Dental...

Background: Health professions learners are taught by full-time university faculty and by clinicians who teach alongside their clinical practice. This distributed healthcare education model ensures high-quality education but is at risk due to high learner demand, shortage of educators, and economic pressures. Understanding what factors influence cl...

INTRODUCTION: 3D-printing technology can provide customizable simulations, but its effects on patient care quality have not been well studied. This study aimed to assess the impact of practicing with patient-specific 3D-printed teeth models on the quality of 'patients' dental preparations performed by students transitioning to clinical training. A...

Introduction: Clinical educators' optimal motivation is paramount to their performance and wellbeing as well as to learners. However, teaching in clinical settings is time-consuming, often uncompensated, and combines various obligations. Therefore, we aimed to identify factors influencing clinical educators' motivation to teach that supported reten...

Objective: To study the utility of simulation videos with embedded quiz items compared and in combination with live hands-on demonstrations of dental procedures. Methods: Thirty-three videos with embedded items were developed to help students understand the procedures they had to practice in the simulation laboratory. Videos were uploaded to the...

Introduction: Peer observation of online teaching has been suggested to maintain and monitor online learning standards. However, this practice and the designed peer observation forms have been almost exclusively restricted to face-to-face or stand-alone synchronous/asynchronous sessions. This study, therefore, aimed to identify criteria for the suc...

Giving constructive feedback is crucial to ensure and facilitate learners in bridging the gap between their current performance and the desired standards of competence. Giving effective feedback is a skill that can be learned, practised, and improved. Therefore, our aim is to explore models in clinical settings and assess their transferability to d...

Objective: This pilot study aimed to investigate the perceptions of dental students and their tutors of a deliberate simulated practice using patient-specific virtual and three-dimensional (3D) printed teeth models. This is before they perform their first indirect posterior tooth restoration on their patients. Methods: Seventy-eight fourth-year de...

Objective: To investigate the effect of an online module in promoting study strategies based on neuroscience applied to education for first-year dental students at the University of the Andes in Santiago, Chile. Methods: Four weeks after the start of the 2018 first academic semester, all 82 first-year dental students (72% females, 28% males, ave...

Objective: This pilot study aimed to investigate the perceptions of dental students and their tutors of a deliberate simulated practice using patient-specific virtual and 3D-printed teeth models before they performed their first indirect posterior tooth restoration on their patients. Methods: Seventy-eight fourth-year dental students from the 2021...

It aimed to present the design, implementation, and lessons learned from two fit-for-purpose online interprofessional faculty development programs for educational practice improvement in the health professions. Both programs were designed to enhance teaching and learning practices in an interprofessional environment based on four pillars: professio...

Background and Objectives: Well-designed interprofessional programmes amongst learners in the health professions has been found to foster teamwork, communication, and valuing the role of others in the healthcare team. On the contrary, poorly planned and delivered interprofessional initiatives may generate reluctance to engage in interprofessional c...

Objective This study aimed to explore the experiences of students and personnel at a Chilean dental school during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Methods This phenomenological descriptive qualitative study reported staff and students’ experiences during the pandemic through in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews. These were recorded on audio and video with a...

Healthcare clinical staff perceived the need for pedagogical instruction, especially in those strategies related to their regular and daily teaching practice; Teaching & Learning and Assessment.

PURPOSE: Using Self-Determination Theory, the purpose was to determine whether work climate, students’ motivation, and teachers’ basic psychological needs could predict clinical teachers’ autonomous and controlled motivation to teach and whether clinical teachers’ motivations could predict student- and teacher-centered teaching approaches METHODS:...

Purpose: It aimed to know how dental students’ general course experiences and the satisfaction or frustration of their basic psychological needs influence passion for studying and, how passion influences students’ study strategies in Chile. Methods: A correlational cross-sectional study was conducted in 3Chilean Dental Schools between April and Ju...

En años recientes, la educación interprofesional ha aumentado su popularidad en la formación de odontólogos con el fin de facilitar la colaboración entre los miembros del equipo de salud y mejorar la calidad en la atención profesional. Por consiguiente, el propósito de este estudio es describir y analizar dónde, por qué y cómo se está realizando la...

-Conocer conceptos generales de evaluación médica. -Identificar el modelo de Competencia Clínica de Miller 1990. -Conocer la utilidad y cualidades de una buena evaluación. -Describir la estructura de una correcta pregunta de opción múltiple. -Identificar cómo escribir correctamente preguntas de opción múltiple para ciencias de base y clínicas. -Des...

Academic performance has been defined as the achievement of goals, results or objectives established in the subject program that the student is taking and it is important to study the factors that can predict it. The objective of this study is to establish the correlation between performance in weekly quizzes with performance in global tests and th...

Introduction: As teaching strategies, the seminar and fishbowl approaches promote active learning and shift the focus from the teacher to the learner. The aim of this study was to compare the self-reported perceptions of each student-centred teaching technique among a group of dental students as well as resultant quiz scores after each teaching tec...

With new digital systems, the role of the microscope as an irreplaceable instrument in the teaching of histology has been called into question. In this study academic performance and student perception for two learning methods were compared: digital and light microscopy, in the muscle tissue unit of the morphology course for first-year undergraduat...

Introduction The use of multiple choice questions (MCQs) is a well-accepted method to evaluate the professional competencies in medical science education. Nevertheless, assessment items written by faculty without training are lacking in quality (Naeem et al 2012). Their improvement might endorse with the validity of the examination, better achievem...

Objectives To evaluate the impact of faculty development teaching skills focused on a learner-centered approach after 4-years. Methods At the beginning of the 2015, all dental faculty members were invited to anonymously and voluntarily complete the Approaches to Teaching Inventory (ATI) questionnaire (scale:1-50), aiming to assess whether the thei...

Objetive To investigate non-clinical care aspects in our undergraduate dental students training program that need improvement using a modified patient feedback questionnaire (PFQ). Methods At the end of 2017 academic year, the PFQ was implemented as a pilot assessment for all 81 year-4 (Y4) and 63 year-5 (Y5) students working at the Child and Adult...

Introduction: Pedagogically, reflection allows the integration of new experiences with existing knowledge and skills, promoting self-regulated learning, which helps and encourages professional development. This is achieved by increasing students' self-awareness of their own instructional process, improving learning opportunities through a more in-d...

Conocer la importancia de las evaluaciones. Diferenciar entre el propósito de una evaluación formativa y sumativa. Identificar el modelo de Competencia Clínica de Miller 1990. Contrastar el concepto actual de validez de las evaluaciones (Kane 2013). Analizar la necesidad de evaluación triangulada.

Objectives To compare the clinical examination skills that needed improvement between year-4 and year-5 undergraduate dental students, through the use of a modified Mini-CEX form as a formative assessment instrument. Methods At the beginning of the 2017 academic year the Mini-CEX was implemented as a formative assessment instrument for all 81 yea...

Purpose: To determine dental students' motivational profiles through a person-centred approach and to analyse the associations with the satisfaction of their basic psychological needs, study strategies, academic performance, self-esteem, and vitality. Methods: A total of 924 students from the University of San Sebastian (Chile) participated in t...

Supplement 1. Spanish versions of the scales that were used.

Supplement 3. Audio recording of the abstract.

In recent years interprofessional education has increased its popularity in the teaching and learning of dentists with the aim of improving collaboration and quality of service. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to describe and analyse the where, why and how of interprofessional education in dental education. A scoping systematic review was c...

The quality of assessment items is important to ensure reliable decisions are taken. However, it is generally known that assessment items written by faculty without training are lacking in quality (Naeem, van der Vleuten; 2012), and that this can affect tests' reliability and validity (Downing, 2005). This study aimed at determining the effectivene...

Introduction Clinical reasoning is a fundamental and core clinical competence of healthcare professionals. The study aimed to investigate the utility of the Structured Professional Reasoning Exercise (SPRE), a new competence assessment method designed to measure dental students’ clinical reasoning in simulated scenarios, covering the clinical areas...

Purpose: To assess the impact of developing staff teaching and learning skills on their perceptions and approaches to teaching, as well as their students´ experiences and approaches to learning, before and after training, at a Dental School in Chile. Methods: Before training (2014), staff completed the Approaches to Teaching Inventory (ATI), to a...

Objectives To investigate students’ perceptions and impact of moving from presentation seminars on Oral Medicine to a more dynamic fishbowl learning format. Methods Oral Medicine seminars consisted of 8-10 year-3 and year-5 students’ teams preparing a subject to be presented to their classmates. In March 2016 seminars were replaced by the fishbow...

Aims: The Constructive Alignment (CA) model (Biggs 1999) is being implemented at the University of the Andes Dental School as a process of teaching quality assurance. The model promotes that teaching-learning activities and assessment tasks must be “aligned” with the course intended learning outcomes in order to improve students´ learning. This stu...

Aims: To evaluate the relationship between grit, as perseverance and passion for long term goals, and academic achievements in first year dental students at the University of the Andes, Santiago, Chile. Materials and Methods: Starting 2015 academic year, all 98 first year dental students from University of the Andes were invited to voluntarily comp...

Aims: To develop a curriculum mapping model and scrutinise its results to serve as a diagnostic tool in a teaching and learning quality assurance process at the University of the Andes Dental School. Materials and Methods: A curriculum mapping model (CMM) template was developed to display key elements of the curriculum to provide a detailed vision...

Introduction: Peer-assessment and feedback is encouraged to enhance students’ learning. The aim of this study was to quantitatively and qualitatively analyse pre-clinical and clinical dental students’ written peer-feedback provided as part of a continuous, formative and structured peer-assessment protocol. Materials and Methods: 309 Year-2 and Yea...

Fostering Dental Students’ Academic Achievements and Reflection Skills through Clinical Peer-assessment and Feedback Jorge A. Tricio, Mark J. Woolford, Michael P. Escudier Abstract Purpose/Objectives: Peer-assessment is increasingly being encouraged to enhance students’ learning. This study aimed to evaluate the educational impact in terms of aca...

Introduction: Reflection is regarded as an important and essential component of healthcare professionals’ education and practice. This cross-sectional study aimed to explore the levels of reflection habits of dental students and clinical and PhD postgraduate trainees, and to establish the relationship between students’ reflection and their academic...

Acceptability is a required quality for a sound assessment. For students, acceptability of a test is strongly influenced by perception of fairness. Computer-based assessment has been reported to be preferred by students provided that strict controls to prevent cheating are in place. This may be difficult to achieve as e-assessments are often taken...

Acceptability is a required quality for a sound assessment. For students, acceptability of a test is strongly influenced by perception of fairness. Computer-based assessment has been reported to be preferred by students provided that strict controls to prevent cheating are in place. This may be difficult to achieve as e-assessments are often taken...

Seventy-five implants were installed in 12 fresh ethanol-treated bovine ribs by use of a torque gauge manometer to measure the force needed to screw the implants fully into the bone. Digital radiographs were taken and a density histogram of the bone at the implant/bone interface was obtained. The damping characteristics of the implant/bone interfac...

To evaluate the relative efficacy of a non-degradable osmotic slow-release dosage form containing 6.6 mg cetylpyridinium chloride (MOTS [Mucosal Oral Therapeutic System] CPC) to inhibit new plaque formation and gingivitis, a single-blind, randomised, parallel group pilot study was set up. 52 healthy volunteers were assigned to receive one of the fo...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the capability of the Periotest device in detecting and monitoring functional changes in the periodontal as well as in the pari-implant damping characteristics. In the first part of this study, 107 teeth were splinted by means of 40 full acrylic fixed prostheses (AFP) and another 37 teeth were splinted b...

The Periotest device was used to evaluate the damping characteristics of different bone-to-implant interfaces of Brånemark implants. Implant and abutment lengths were found to have a significant influence on Periotest value (PTV). There was no statistical difference between PTVs of implants located in the anterior and posterior areas of the same ja...

The Periotest method, an objective, noninvasive clinical diagnostic method, is a dynamic procedure that measures the resistance of the periodontium to a defined impact load. It has been reported that Periotest values depend to some extent on tooth mobility, but mainly on the damping characteristics of the periodontium. Nevertheless, the real clinic...

The Periotest® device was used to evaluate the damping characteristics of different bone-to-implant interfaces of Brånemark implants. Implant and abutment lengths were found to have a significant influence on Periotest value (PTV). There was no statistical difference between PTVs of implants located in the anterior and posterior areas of the same j...

The aim of this study was to obtain a better understanding of the Periotest method when used to detect subclinical mobility of osseointegrated implants. Four hundred two screw-shaped implants were tested with the Periotest device at the time of abutment connection. Several factors, including jaw location, implant and abutment length, and gender, we...