Success of first Dental Nurse online induction course using IVIDENT
The first Dental Nurse induction course run through IVIDENT’s Moodle VLE was successfully completed by participants working in Army bases in Germany, (100% pass rate) and at the AIMST University in Malaysia (92.3% pass rate) in January 2010. The prize giving for the AIMST students was carried out on 19th May 2010 by the Director of UDENTE, Prof Pat Reynolds in the presence of the Vice Chancellor of AIMST, Prof Fred Smales. The results of the educational research of the work in Malaysia were presented at the International Association of Dental Research in Barcelona on July 15th 2010 and a paper discussing the results has been published in the journal Dental Nursing:
Roberts C, Carruthers R, Hatzipanagos S, Comfort M & Reynolds PA (2010) An evaluation of an online course to Dental Surgery Assistants in Malaysia. Dental Nursing 6(10): 592 - 594
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
