MSc Dentistry and Dental Prosthetics (LM-46) – Venice Mestre

Teaching activities are divided into integrated courses and elective courses.

Integrated courses are the compulsory courses included in the Study Plan. They are formed by combining different courses, including courses belonging to different scientific-disciplinary sectors, in order to achieve a specific common educational objective.

Elective courses are offered exclusively as part of the educational activities chosen by the student and include academic lectures and/or seminars. They provide the cultural background necessary to personalise the student’s curriculum and are aimed at exploring specific areas of knowledge and educational aspects that enhance the graduate’s preparation and training. These objectives are achieved by: responding to the student’s individual interests and inclinations; expanding on topics that are not included in the “core curriculum” of the integrated courses; and promoting a multidisciplinary approach. The range of these educational activities, from which students may make their own individual choice, is organised annually on the basis of proposals submitted by the degree programme’s teaching staff. Elective Educational Activities (ADO) are delivered through interactive teaching methods that encourage students’ active and continuous participation, including lectures, seminars, tutorial activities, elective internships, and clinical and laboratory tutorials.

Types of teaching activities. Within each course, the allocation of University Credits (CFU) and teaching time among the different types of teaching activities is defined as follows:

Ex-cathedra lecture: (hereinafter referred to as a “lecture”) the presentation of a specific topic identified by a title and included in the educational curriculum of the Degree Programme. It is delivered by a lecturer according to a predefined schedule and is addressed to students regularly enrolled in a given year of the programme, who may also be divided into small groups.

Seminar: a teaching activity with the same characteristics as a lecture, but delivered simultaneously by several lecturers, including lecturers from different disciplinary fields (or with different areas of expertise), and, as such, recorded in the official lecture register. Clinical-pathological conferences that may be established as part of clinical courses are also recognised as seminar activities.

Tutorial Teaching (practical sessions): an interactive teaching method addressed to a small number of students. This teaching activity provides knowledge useful for professional practice, primarily through stimuli arising from the analysis of problems, as well as by providing the methodological skills required to solve such problems.

Professional Training Activities: aimed at enabling students to acquire specific professional skills and are carried out in laboratories, simulation rooms and clinics. The compulsory clinical placement is a form of tutorial teaching that requires students to carry out practical activities with progressively increasing levels of autonomy, simulating activities performed in professional practice. At every stage of the compulsory clinical placement, students are required to work under the direct supervision of a tutor-lecturer. The clinical skills acquired through professional training activities are assessed as part of the final examination grade for the course responsible for organising the relevant professional training activities.

Responsibility for the planning and organisation of the clinical placement is assigned to the Academic Manager and the Coordinator of Professional Training Activities. The overall training programme must ensure adequate theoretical preparation and appropriate professional training, including through clinical placements, in compliance with the standards and number of hours established by European Union directives. Training is carried out under the supervision of tutors belonging to the relevant professional profile or to a related scientific-disciplinary sector, with established professional and teaching experience. At the clinical placement sites, service staff are also appointed as contact persons/supervisors who collaborate in the management and delivery of the clinical placement.