Students recruitment procedures in the school of dental medicine of casablanca

Introduction: the access in first year of the studies of dental medicine is opened on competition to the candidates holders of the high school degree (HSD) obtained in one of the series or the sectors -or the equivalent recognized diploma-: experimental sciences, economical sciences and mathematical sciences. The competition takes place in two phases including a preselection of the candidates and the written tests. The objective of this work is to try to figure out if this means of recruitment of the students in our school allows to select future graduates capable properly answering the requirements of odontology. Material and methods: the studied population is represented by the students of the fifth year (of the academic year 2012-2013 The list and the notes of the students during 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th years were obtained with the service of schooling of the dental Faculty of Medicine of Casablanca. The exploitation and the analysis of the results were realized by the SPSS 10.0 software. The threshold of meaning retained for all the tests is 5 % (p=0.05). Results: the studied results are relating to selection criteria. Then correlations were looked for between the results of the materials, the practical class and the clinical services on one hand, and the criteria of admission on the other hand. Discussion: the competition to the dental Faculty of Medicine of Casablanca does not contain either interview, or oral test, nor practical evaluation. The results of correlation between the results of the materials. practical class and clinical services with the criteria of admission, show a low positive association was observed in our study compared with other studies. Finally, several suggestions were proposed, to improve the quality of selection criteria in our faculty.