IVIDENT
IVIDENT (International Virtual Dental School) was an innovative £2.3 million, 3 year UK government funded enterprise to deliver all aspects of dental education through a flexible online environment. It was highly commended at the prestigious Medical Futures Innovation Awards. This commendation was awarded in the category of Dental & Oral Health in December 2008. It was completed on time and on budget in March 2010.
The IVIDENT partners were:
Lead
King’s College London Dental Institute
Funding Partners
HEFCE
Department of Health
Academic Partners
University of Portsmouth
University of Bristol Dental School
Queen’s University Belfast School of Dentistry
Eastman Dental Institute
Hospital Trust Partners
Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital Trust
King’s College Hospital Trust
South Central Strategic Health Authority
Business Partner
Tier 2 Consulting
With the support of these partners IVIDENT developed high quality dental education that is flexible, personalised, quality assured, seamless, and without boundaries to benefit the whole dental education community. This resulted in UDENTE, the world’s first international virtual dental school.
Facing the future collaboratively
UDENTE is an innovative solution for the 21st Century. It will create a collaborative flexible learning environment that will enable faculty to adapt, communicate and embrace the opportunities that the digital era provides. In facing such a future together, local and global outcomes can be measured and shared for the benefit of dental healthcare worldwide.
Professor Johann de Vries
School of Dentistry Faculty of Health Sciences,University of Adelaide, Australia
