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The purpose of this study was to examine the awareness of dental hygiene seniors about collegecurriculum and employment as prospective professional workers in the field of dentistry in an attempt toexplore how their employment could be boosted and facilitated. The subjects in this study were dentalhygiene students who were scheduled to graduate from a three-year-course college around Seoul. Asurvey was conducted for about three months from August through October 2006, and the answersheets from 226 students were gathered. Out of them, 190 answer sheets were analyzed with SPSS 12.0program. After statistical data on frequency and percentage were obtained, t-test was carried out. Thefindings of the study were as follows;1. 85.8 percent of the students investigated attended the college due to the strong possibility of getting ajob, and 89.5 percent chose the department for the same reason. 53.7 percent decided to choose thecollege and department at their own option.2. As for their experiential perception of college education, college education was considered to beconducive to raising social status(57.4%), guaranteeing a large income(81.5%), the pursuit oflearning(35.3%), and building up morality and citizenship(42.1%).3. A practical curriculum(74.2%) was viewed as most important for employment, followed by fieldpractice(62.6%), job seminar(71.6%), employment programs(75.8%), career counseling(75.3%),publicity activities (74.2%) and help-wanted/job hunting information system (74.7%). 71.5 percentfound it necessary to be connected to working graduates, and 74.2 percent asked for career guidanceby professors.4. Concerning their satisfaction level with college education related to employment, the satisfaction rateswith practical curriculum, field practice, job seminar, career counseling, publicity activities, help-wanted/ job hunting information system, connections with working graduates and career guidance byprofessors respectively stood at 81.6 percent, 81.0 percent, 34.8 percent, 28.5 percent, 35.4 percent,40.1 percent, 27.4 percent and 53.8 percent. 5. Regarding their post-graduation career plans, 91.6 percent wanted to work at dental hospitals orclinics, and 3.7 percent hoped to get other kinds of jobs. 2.6 percent planned to transfer to auniversity. As to preferred workplace, dental hospitals, university dental hospitals and dental clinicswere preferred by 23.2 percent, 19.4 percent and 7.9 percent respectively.6. As for their employment-related priority, they took social status, economic compensation,interpersonal relations, welfare benefits, commuting distance and commuting time into account, andtheir priorities were statistically significantly different(*p＜0.05, **p＜0.01).
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