Sixth year Dentistry students are participating in the intensive induction to face the extramural boarding school.

With the firm intention that improvements must always go hand in hand with all the relevant actors that influence the training of professionals, the Dentistry career at the University of La Serena is carrying out the induction into internship of the students who are studying the eleventh level.

The modules, which are divided into different topics and which have been addressed by different professionals in the area, according to what the work field requires, prepare students to face real situations within what is primary public care, one of the most important steps in the training of future dentists.

The career, although it covers several types of clinics and internships internally, the most decisive and representative is that of the extramural internship, which positions them in a real work scenario, with patients - some critical - in the public health sector, and with the supervision of the peer dentists who work in the Family Health Centers of the communes of Coquimbo and La Serena.

“In our graduation profile it is stated that we train comprehensive dentists and that is what we have been fulfilling, and we have realized that they have developed in a good way. This week prepares them to face activities that they will develop during the year, they are reinforced with knowledge that they already have but that they must handle with great accuracy and application, with approaches to cases that could occur, where methodological, technical dental, and pharmacological concepts are reviewed. and medical emergencies,” said the academic and person in charge of clinical fields of teaching care relations and the care internship for students in their final year of the degree, Paula Arriagada.

The professional assured that all the activities carried out in the program are in accordance with the Strategic Development Plan that the institution has declared, and for this reason, she assures that they have worked a lot on the accreditation process of the program and are constantly self-assessment, so each of the activities carried out contributes to the competencies they want to develop and the graduation profile that has been declared to be achieved in the students.

“In general, the program has very good relationships with colleagues who work in the public care system, both in primary and secondary. We have been very well evaluated when we have gone out into the field and carried out actions that have been a contribution to the health network,” said the academic.

The specialist also assured that “it is a bar that we have high and we want to continue maintaining it and always raising it, it is really necessary to make a difference because there are many dentists in the country; Therefore, we have to give the imprint of a state public university and of students trained with that profile to be able to work in the public system.”

Written by Patricia Castro, DEIP