Student and Faculty Satisfaction with Their Dental Curriculum in a Dental College in Saudi Arabia

Table 3

Importance of various factors affecting why existing curriculum is being implemented according to the two groups.

	Teachers	Students
	Mean	Mean
Fulfills college mission and vision	8.1	6.3
Reflects colleges tradition	8.0	6.6
Prepares competent graduates	7.7	7.1
Doable given teaching staff training	7.3	7.0
Follows best practices in dental education	6.5	6.6
Negotiation product between departments	6.4	6.3
Required by university regulations	5.7	7.2
High risk associated with changing to other alternative	4.9	6.8
No other alternative proposed	4.8	6.2
Not aware other curricular models exist	3.6	5.5

Statistically significant difference at .