Impact of COVID-19-Related Personal Protective Equipment Changes on Dental Education: A Qualitative Study to Explore Faculty and Student Perspective
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Interview guide.
(1) How has the additional PPE due to COVID-19 impacted your overall clinical learning experience? (2) How has the additional PPE due to COVID-19 has affected your learning experience on the clinical floor? Communication How has the additional PPE due to COVID-19 has affected your interaction with faculty on the clinic floor while treating the patients? (1) What about nonverbal communication? (2) What about paraverbal communication (tone of voice, clarity, attentiveness, volume, pacing of questions, and voice inflection)? Clinical instructions How has the additional PPE affect the clinical instruction you are receiving? (1) Preprocedure. (2) During-procedure: clinical demonstrations by the faculty. (3) Postprocedure. Discussion and feedback How has the additional PPE due to COVID-19 has affected your posttreatment daily feedback (huddle, after treatment discussion)? Patient interaction (1) How has the additional PPE due to COVID-19 has impacted your interaction with patients? (2) Delivery of the treatment plan. (3) Preprocedure discussion. (4) Postprocedure instruction. How has the impact of COVID-19 on your clinical learning experience affected your future plans? Is there anything else you would like to add?
Interview guide questions used during the focus groups.
