Blog 5: Changes to my study programme

 

Hii!!! Today we will talk about the changes I would make to my curriculum. To begin with, I am in the fourth semester of my dentistry degree at the University of Chile.

 One thing I would do to make the curriculum "better" is to have a better step from the skills development and self-care branch for professional exercise 2 (first year) and the simulations branch for professional exercise 1 (second year). year) since I personally find that it was VERY difficult to deal with things that we had not seen so well and that we did not have the necessary practice to do things with the materials. Something especially important in these branches that are practical is that as a generation we had almost the entire first year online, so it is most likely that the other generations will not be so complicated with this branch.

Another thing that I would change is the branch of scientific and clinical bases for diagnosis since, according to me, it covers a lot and it is TOO MUCH a load that it entails, so perhaps it would be a good idea to divide it.

Now talking about the load of the race, personally when I entered the race I felt that it was a lot (and I still feel it hahaha) but the truth is that you can get along "well" almost always if you know how to organize, which has made me past is that it is difficult to allocate time between branches since we have branches that are VERY time-demanding, which makes it difficult to give the other branches the time they deserve.

In my opinion, the facilities of the faculty are insufficient, since there are many students and few rooms or auditoriums, in addition, there are always MANY people in the casino and there are not enough tables so that everyone can have lunch or eat well.

The use of technologies in the faculty could be better but it is not so bad either, what is really needed is to modernize the preclinical ones and from what I know there are also things missing in the clinic.

Another VERY important issue is the teaching method, according to me it is very similar to other university degrees, where there is a quite big difference is in the practical part where we need A LOT the guidance of the teachers, who usually make demonstrations or help us solve problems with our preclinical practices.