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The present study established the following specific study questions: First, how the dental hygienists in clinical settings perceive the written examination system? Second, how the dental hygienists in clinical setting perceive the practical examination system? Third, the resultant responses to how the dental hygienists in clinical setting perceive the curriculum are as follow. The subjects of the study included 200 dental hygienists who were employed by the dental hospitals, dentists, and public health centers (branches) in the Geyongnam region. Followings are the summary of the results from this study. First, it was found that the dental hygienists were satisfied with the written examination regardless of their years of experience, and that they perceived the level of difficulty as a medium. It was also found that they perceived the clinical usefulness of the written examination was low, and the number of the current written examination subjects should be appropriately adjusted. It seems that the examination subjects and points distribution for scoring are not appropriately reflecting the clinical needs. Second, the study results indicated that the dental hygienists were satisfied with the practical examination, regardless of their years of experience. It was found that they perceived the clinical usefulness of the practical examination as low, and that there was significant difference in satisfaction with the examination sites among the subjects with different experiences. It is thought that this idea came up from the variation in examination date and locational distribution, considering the burden of the local students. As for the perception of the practical examination marking, they perceived that the teachers in teaching profession are marking more objectively than the teachers in the clinical settings. Third, the dental hygienists perceived the curriculum as an average regardless of their years of experience. They also perceived that the examination subjects did not reflect the most recent dental medicine in a proper way. They highly perceived that the examination subjects were centered towards the theory. Its was found that dental prosthetics was the most required subject in the clinics, and community health dentistry and oral health administration were the least required subjects among the public oral health. It was shown that both the preventive treatment subject and dental prosthetics should be reinforced in order to secure the specialty. It was found that the assignment in the clinics were usually more related with the subjects. Given that the problem sets for the assessment of problem solving ability in practical settings have been issues in all the examinations for all types of health care workers, it is necessary to improve the national examination for dental hygienists as well. The national examination should be used for assessing clinical usefulness, rather than assessing the memory capacity of the testee. In addition, it is expected that a new direction for the development of the examination questionnaires for national examination should be determined through the converged opinions by utilizing clinical practitioners who are able to figure out the practical abilities of dental hygienists.