Predicting dentists' career choices: using the Myers-Briggs type indicator

Article Abstract:

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a personality test used in determining career preferences, may not indicate differences between general dentists and dental specialists. Using a multiple-choice test, the MBTI categorizes personality types, such as extroverts, introverts, thinkers, and feelers. Researchers analyzed MBTI results and types of employment for 1,117 people who graduated from a dental school over a 20-year period. Among general practitioners and specialists, the most common personality types were sensing types, thinkers, and judgers. Sensing types prefer routine methods of problem solving and do not rely on intuition; thinkers are logical rather than emotional; and judgers tend to make decisions and execute plans without delay. Practitioners and specialists tended to be both introverts and extroverts, though introverts were more common. There were not significant trends in personality type differences between specialists and general practitioners.

Usage, Dentistry, Personalities, Vocational guidance, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Test)

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Dentists' personal values: an exploratory investigation

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Evidence suggests that dentists and the general population have similar value systems with dentists, however, tending to place greater value in intellectual rather than religious attributes. Researchers evaluated the responses from 221 surveys asking dentists to rank the importance of 36 personal value characteristics. They compared these responses with a national survey of the general population. Both dentists and the general population ranked family security and honesty as the top values. Dentists ranked the values of being intellectual, logical, capable, independent, and imaginative higher than the general population. The general population, however, ranked the values of salvation, national security, world peace, and being broad-minded and forgiving higher than dentists. These trends were similar for both younger and older dentists and for male and female dentists.

Analysis, Ethical aspects, Values, Values (Philosophy)

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Identifying rosacea: what all dentists should know

Article Abstract:

The symptoms and appearance of rosacea are reviewed so dentists can refer patients with this skin condition to a dermatologist. Rosacea causes redness, dilated blood vessels, and skin lesions on the face. Dentists are in a good position to identify patients with this condition because many people visit a dentist for treatments that will make their teeth look better.

Risk factors, Physiological aspects, Acne rosacea

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