Innovations and Best Practices. At the end of the academic year students are asked to evaluate anonymously in a standarized questionary the relevance of the programme, as well as methods and quality of teaching. The results are analysed to ensure the deficiencies are rectified at the earliest possible opportunity. The questionnary is a part of evaluation of teaching organized by Xxxx’x office, concerning all subjects included in the curriculum. Plans for Future Changes Computer-based presentations will be introduced as an additional visual aid for lectures. Students will have the opportunity to improve their self-learning by getting access to student-oriented histology software in the newly created Laboratory of Medical Education, belonging to the Department of Histology.
Innovations and Best Practices. The syllabus is specially designed for dentistry students and integrated with other disciplines. Plans for Future Changes We plan to shift the classes to the morning hours, which would allow to improve the quality of bedside teaching.
Innovations and Best Practices. Teaching maxillofacial surgery at the final year of studies after the full course of general medicine and oral surgery.
Innovations and Best Practices. Changes in the curriculum are now being implemented and a separate computer course will be given to first-year dental students, allowing us to devote more time to teaching biostatistics and more advanced use of computers. Plans for Future Changes We plan to develop closer interaction between dental disciplines and the content of our courses. The new location of the Dental School and its computerisation should ensure closer links.
Innovations and Best Practices. The language course is specifically designed to integrate with the dental syllabus. Plans for future changes Modernization and expansion of equipment (books, TV sets, audio and video cassettes, etc.)
Innovations and Best Practices. A concept for the curriculum with a focus on the students learning as one main principle • Empowering of the students in many ways and in different settings • The holistic view with a health orientation • Contextual learning based on an educational rationale with inter-disciplinary integration, an experiential continuum and meaning-making • Clinical learning experiences from the very first year and the evidence-based approach throughout the curriculum including the clinical settings • Assessment and different assessment methods with students self-assessment as an integral part of their competence development
Innovations and Best Practices. The Oral Eco-system - Problem-based approach gives the students the opportunity to learn basic biology in a professional context and in an integrated fashion. Both circumstances are known to improve learning and knowledge application. - Major innovations made within basic biology include that we do NOT try to cover all knowledge in the basic biology domain but select the content in the form of priority problems. The priority problems primarily consist of oral conditions commonly found in the community or of events that are eductionally relevant as they are in need of explanations in terms of underlying processes, principles or mechanisms. The selection of the content of basic biology curriculum is thus based on its clinical or educational relevance. - Furthermore, we have devised a set of key concepts such as the ´oral ecosystem’ to promote students learning and understanding (meaning-making) of phenomena and their relation to the context in which they take place. - Complementary lectures and seminars with experts from both basic biology and clinical sciences are arranged in order to facilitate transfer of basic biology knowledge to the clinical domains and to give frequent qualitative feedback. These seminars high-light the connection between undergraduate education and research which also serves to open the scholarly discourse to the student, inducing them to see arguments for and against standpoints constituting the scientific exchange of opinions and different knowledge structure of basic sciences and their clinical applications.
Innovations and Best Practices. Exposure to realistic clinical situations in paediatric dentistry during a three semester period. Clinical discussions lead by teachers during clinical study groups, which comprise one hour of the four in each clinical session. Possibilities to join the work at the staff specialist clinic for special treatments like nitrous oxide sedation and full fixed orthodontic appliance treatments.
Innovations and Best Practices. The behavioural sciences in the curriculum are reinforced by the use of the bio/psycho/socio/cultural approach. Evaluation has been made by a multi disciplinary group in order to guarantee the integration of behavioral and social sciences with biological and clinical sciences.
Innovations and Best Practices. A wider utilization of newly obtained teaching moulds and models (body sections, the structures of the muscles and viscera, the middle and inner ear, the regions of the head, etc) in explaining the study material; utilization of computerized tomography, ultrasonography, x-ray contrast pictures and other imaging material. Open discussion of the new study programmes and specific feature of the regulations; improving of examination methods.
