INTERACTIVE LECTURE FOR DENTAL STUDENTS

15.02.2018

The first lecture using the new interactive multimedia system took place on 14, February in lecture hall of Dental Medical Center. The dean of faculty professor Nataliia Bidenko (department of pediatric therapeutic dentistry and prevention of dental diseases, head at department – professor Oleksandr Savychuk) read the lecture in new format in propedeutics of pediatric therapeutic dentistry to students in the 2nd course of dental faculty.

The lecture was devoted to morphological peculiarities of teeth and jaws at children of different age. The second year students of dental faculty only started their acquaintance with the dentistry in the fourth semester and the study of basics of dental science and practice is waiting for them, as well as mastering the practical skills on artificial teeth, work on phantoms at updated simulation center. So the desire of students to join to the future specialty as soon as possible is natural. They actively joined to discussion of questions, put by the lecturer, and answered the questions of tests using the panels for quiz. The answers for final questions demonstrated that the overwhelming majority of students mastered the taught material and understood its importance for clinical pediatric dentistry. The representatives from all special departments of faculty were present at the lecture as reading the lectures in new format using modern technical facilities shall become a daily norm.

The anonymous polling, performed at the end of the lecture, showed the positive attitude of students to modernization of lecture process and their responses testified to the fact that they highly assess the changes that take place at University.

Department of Pediatric Therapeutic Dentistry and Prevention of Dental Diseases

Dean’s office of dental faculty