Dental student involving in self assessment in preclinical dental education as learning modality

The dental school curriculum places significant influence on the acquisition of technical skills resulting at the end of dental training, a competent dentist. The goal of dental education is to prepare future clinicians for a general dental practice. The curriculum delivery utilizes learning methodology that includes lectures, pre-clinical laboratories, problem-based learning and clinical internships. The aim of our study was to show whether dental students are able to critically evaluate their work and whether their abilities to self-assess improved over the study. The study examined whether there is a positive correlation between student selfevaluation scores and instructor scores in the second year of Preclinical Cariology and Oral health, courses at the Dental Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, at the University “Goce Delcev”, Stip. The results concerning self-evaluation among second year dental students in preclinical procedures who rated themselves regularly throughout the course year exhibited some expected outcomes. The Criteria-based Self- Evaluation sheets provided the student with an orderly and systematic approach to evaluating their preclinical work