Lecture title
The challenges and opportunities of digital technologies on dental education.
Session
Although the dental related professions have been flooded by digital technologies and all professionals had to adapt their practices to accommodate the digital transition, dental schools didn’t follow the same pace and remained slower on its adoption.
To be able to catchup, many challenges will raise for dental schools, mainly related to curricular program adjustment, teaching environment transformation and development of professor’s digital competences.
It will also offer great opportunities for collaboration between schools and dental companies, related to educational and research activities that can benefit both, but most of all benefit student’s and the future of dental care treatments for the society.
Let us take a deeper look into the subject and reflect on everyone’s role to be part of the needed digital transformation of dental education.
CV
- Bachelor’s in dental technology, from the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the University of Lisbon – Portugal.
- Degree in Education Sciences in Allied Health Area, from Ferris State University – Michigan – USA.
- Master in Pedagogy in Higher Education, from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Lisbon – Portugal.
- PhD in Health Sciences and Technologies in the Area of Dental Technology, from the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the University of Lisbon – Portugal.
- Assistant Professor, Member of the Pedagogical Committee, President of the Coordination Committee and Regent of the Curricular Units of Dental Morphology (I and II) and Fixed Prosthesis Laboratory Techniques (I, II, III and IV) of the Degree in Dental Prosthesis, Member of the Committee of Coordination of the master’s degree in Oral Health Sciences and the Postgraduate Degree in Digital Technologies of Dental Technology at the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the University of Lisbon – Portugal.
- Member of the Technical Assessment Committee for the area of Dental Technology of the Ministry of Health - Portugal.
- Founder, Former President of the Board and General Assembly and President of the Scientific Committee of the Portuguese Association of Dental Technicians (APTPD) – Portugal.
- Technical Coordinator of the fixed prosthesis and implantology area at dental technology laboratory Nuno Ferreira da Silva Lda. (NFSLab) – Portugal.