DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF EFFECTIVENESS OF SIMULATION TECHNIQUE FOR TRAINING MANUAL SKILLS IN MODULE "CARIESOLOGY AND DENTAL HARD TISSUE DISEASES"
Mastering practical skills with the help of simulation training eliminates the risk to the life and health of the patient, provides an individual approach to the training process, the possibility of repeatedly working out the skill and bringing manipulation to automatism, as well as objective control of the quality of its performance. The aim of the study is to determine the effectiveness of the simulation method of training manual skills modulo "Cariesology and diseases of hard tooth tissues" in clinical conditions. Methods: the material of the 1st stage of the study was 104 people, students of the 3rd year, divided into a control group, where training was carried out using standard phantoms and a study group where a V generation dental simulator CDS 100 was used. The material of stage 2 was presented by 68 people who participated in stage 1 and were divided into groups similar to stage 1, for 2016 young specialists. Results: in the control group, the main causes of complications in the preparation of the carious cavity at both stage 1 and 2 are perforation of the pulp chamber, inadequacy of necrotomy and cavity geometry with ANOVA factor 1.15 for stage 1 of the study and 1.21 for stage 2, which indicates the statistical identity of predictors of this group. In the study group, there was no statistically significant difference in the quality of repaired cavities for the above predictors at stages 1 and 2 of the study, ANOVA factor 0.85, which indicates the statistical significance of such a predictor as the preliminary acquisition of motion automatism acquired when working with a simulator. Conclusion: the use of the CDS 100 computer interactive simulator provides a higher level of acquisition, and most importantly, the "survival" of practical skills, confirmed by subsequent clinical practice, compared to the classical form of training.