Blog 5: CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME
Hello everyone, I am a second year dental student at the University of Chile, it is a fairly small school but academically it is considered the best in the country. Although the education and training provided to future professionals is good, it could certainly improve many aspects. I think one of the main problems of this career is its cost, since it involves the purchase of many materials and also the procurement of patients for the treatments we must perform, I think it is very unfair that if a patient does not come to the clinic we have to pay the consequences by failing the course, this must be changed urgently. Also the academic load is very heavy, especially in the last weeks of the semester, where there are too many evaluations, homework and assignments. On the other hand, if we talk about the infrastructure of the faculty, there are only two large classrooms for classes (considering that we are approximately 120 students per generation), and the dining room is very small,...