Questionnaire Survey on the 4th Workshop at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Jaw Deformities and Future Prospects

The 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Jaw Deformities was held in 2008, and the 4th education workshop, which included a lecture and training on cephalometric prediction, was held at the same time. To analyze the degree of satisfaction with the contents of the workshop, a questionnaire survey was conducted. Participants were requested to complete a questionnaire and a free-response section which allowed participants to freely express their opinions about the program.The degree of satisfaction with the workshop, discussion and training was higher than that for the lecture. As for the training programs, the participants requested not only basic contents but also more advanced contents. Both expert participants and young participants attended the workshop, so it was considered that the training programs should be designed to suit the experience of the participants to create more practical and popular workshops.Future training programs should be divided into a basic course and an advanced course, which should be conducted concurrently by the same staff in separate places. This would enable more efficient educational results to be obtained with limited time, funds and staff available.