Benefits for the dental profession
As a non-profit making organisation UDENTE benefits the dental profession by promoting worldwide learning through sharing the latest knowledge and research in the field. It also:
- Addresses the needs of increasing numbers of dental students learning in a modern and global society.
- Meets the Dental Schools' academic needs by creating a new learning platform development to enhance a customised and a holistic learning capability.
- Enables the schools of the worldwide dental professions to integrate through its IT blueprint and in so doing help develop their IT capabilities into the 21st century or create them where none exist. Dental schools can also contribute to UDENTE content.
- Facilitates educational and technological research (e.g. impact of mobile technologies).
Plugging the shortage gap by reaching out
UDENTE is a unique opportunity to offer our students access to one of the best available contemporary dental curricula. The Institute of clinical dentistry at the University of Tromsø is the northern-most dental school in the world. We have access to all of the modern information and communication technologies. However, access to good teaching materials in all subjects is not always available locally. The UDENTE project provides an internationally oriented, quality assured dental curriculum that our students will enjoy. It will also be very useful in providing an important, internationally recognized basis for the bench-marking of our own curriculum.
Professor Arne Hensten
Institute of Clinical Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø
