Dental Summer School, Porto, Portugal

The Dental Summer School is designed for foreign dental students and is a three-week program which will take place at the University of Porto, Portugal, in July 2023..


What Does It Involve?

The summer school will provide students with a detailed overview of life as a dental student at the University of Porto, including lectures, and practical based activities, as well as clinical practice with patients at the dental clinic of Faculty of Dental Medicine. 
Places are extremely limited (maximum 16) due to the practical nature of the event. If you would like to register an interest in this summer school, please complete the interest form below. Please note, that this is not an application form. When applications are open (March 2023), those who have completed the interest form will be notified. Participants will be eligible for 6 ECTS credits.


The Program's broad range of activities include:

• Lectures from world-renowned faculty
• Pre-clinical and hands-on training
• Live surgeries and dental procedures
• Formal and informal interactions with faculty and current students
• University residences
• School insurance

The Dental Summer School continuous training course is an eminently practical course and aims at in-depth training in the scientific field and the techniques in question, and also intends to contribute to the updating of knowledge of students of Dentistry.

The number of contact hours for laboratory practical classes exceeds the limits laid down in the regulation for the application of curricular credits at the U.Porto, this is because students acquire, in advance, in theoretical-practical classes and seminars, where individual study requires greater dedication, the concepts to be applied in practical classes.

According to the regulations in force, the sum of the number of contact hours for a training course must be between approximately 25% and approximately 35% of the total number of working hours foreseen for it. As such, this training comprises 162 hours of student work, of which: 90 hours of participant work (with clinical sessions, seminars and laboratory practice, and assessment); 72 hours of individual study (dedicated to research work, among other non-contact activities, as well as study and preparation for assessment), should confer 6 ECTS credits.

TARGET AUDIENCE:
Students in the final year of the Integrated Master Degree in Dental Medicine (Dentistry), coming from Foreign Universities.

SPECIFIC CONDITIONS FOR ADMISSION AND SELECTION CRITERIA
The candidates will be selected by order of application, up to the maximum number of vacancies defined for the course, provided that they meet the specific entry requirements of the application form and provide:
- document proving attendance of the penultimate year and registration in the final year of the studies.