Röding K
School of Dentistry, Division of Education and Research, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden.
Eur J Dent Educ. 1997 Feb;1(1):30-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0579.1997.tb00007.x.
In 1992, The Faculty of Dentistry of The Karolinska Institute (KI) introduced a dental undergraduate programme specifically for Baltic students. Initiative for this programme came from both the Ministries of Health in Estonia and Latvia and a Member's Bill in the Swedish Committee for Foreign Affairs. The first 10 students were admitted in January 1992, and in 1994, a further 8 students were accepted. The main objective is to train Baltic students according to the Scandinavian model of dental education, in order to facilitate a positive development in dentistry in these countries. Candidates for the programme, dental students in Latvia or Estonia who had completed several preclinical years, were interviewed and tested in their home countries by a Swedish Admissions Committee. The curriculum comprises 7 semesters at the School of Dentistry, and includes complementary courses in basic science, preventive dentistry, and theoretical and practical courses in all fields of clinical dentistry. The students work with increasing independence, treating patients with a great variety of oral diseases and from different age groups. A course in Informatics is central and forms a base for a research-based assignment in collaboration with the respective home universities. The Baltic Programme is the first time KI has designed and implemented a specially tailored dental undergraduate curriculum in English for a selected group of foreign undergraduates. The students have proved to be ambitious and industrious, with very high academic standards. Their results in the written examinations were equal to or better than those of the home students. Of the 9 students who to date have completed the course, all are working as dentists in their respective countries and 6 are associated with their university.
1992年,卡罗林斯卡学院(KI)牙科学院推出了一项专门针对波罗的海地区学生的牙科本科课程。该项目的倡议来自爱沙尼亚和拉脱维亚的卫生部以及瑞典外交事务委员会的一项议员法案。1992年1月录取了首批10名学生,1994年又录取了8名学生。主要目标是按照斯堪的纳维亚牙科教育模式培养波罗的海地区的学生,以促进这些国家牙科领域的积极发展。该项目的候选人是拉脱维亚或爱沙尼亚已完成几个临床前学年的牙科学生,由瑞典招生委员会在其本国进行面试和测试。课程包括在牙科学院的7个学期,涵盖基础科学、预防牙科的补充课程以及临床牙科各个领域的理论和实践课程。学生们的独立性不断增强,治疗患有各种口腔疾病、来自不同年龄组的患者。信息学课程是核心课程,为与各自本国大学合作开展的基于研究的作业奠定基础。波罗的海项目是KI首次为选定的一群外国本科生设计并实施以英语授课的专门定制的牙科本科课程。事实证明,这些学生雄心勃勃、勤奋努力,学术水平很高。他们在笔试中的成绩与本国学生相当或更好。在迄今为止已完成该课程的9名学生中,所有人都在各自国家从事牙医工作,其中6人与他们的大学有联系。