Technological innovation, generational change, maintaining quality levels in dentistry: these are among the main challenges of the sector in Italy, to be faced starting from the years of university education with an adequate strategy. They were discussed today in the Cu.Bo Auditorium of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma during the joint initiative with ASL Roma1 "University and Regional Health System together for Third Millennium Dentistry - Future prospects of training and the dental profession" during which the agreement between ASL Roma1 and was presented Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma on training, internships and orientation.
Current trends show, with 10 dentists leaving in the next ten years and an average age of professionals of 50 years (source ANDI Study Center), the urgency of renewal for Italian dentistry but this can only happen by creating new synergies such as those between public and private, between the world of training and the world of dentists. For this reason ASL Roma 1 e UCBM brought together the best professionals in the sector to present the strategic collaboration agreement on training and the dental profession, an example of public-private collaboration in this sense.
The agreement, which will last three years, involves several Dental facilities of the ASL Roma1 distributed throughout the Capital and includes the carrying out of practical-evaluative, formative and orientation internships at the maxillofacial surgery department of San Hospital Presidium Filippo blacks, the Presidium New Queen Margaret in Trastevere, the garrison Cassia-San'Andrea and achievement Outpatient Clinic Circonvallazione Nomentana. Students will be followed by an internal tutor who will draw up a training project that will be responsible and will provide all the necessary assistance for the correct execution of the internship.
"Today's event - underlined the Executive Director of ASL Roma 1 Giuseppe Quintavalle - with the presentation of the agreement between ASL Roma 1 and Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma on training, internships and orientation represents a concrete opportunity to create an example of a virtuous ecosystem and a strong connection between public and private with the aim of improving the training of healthcare professionals, promoting the exchange of experiences and innovation and offering increasingly higher quality services to our population".
"We want to give life to a concrete action that creates a real exchange between generations, experiences and models – said the CEO and General Manager UCBM Andrea Rossi - We know how urgent it is to respond to these challenges to shape tomorrow a dentistry that is up to the current one, today among the most modern in the world. The agreement with the ASL Roma 1 represents a concrete step to bring to the heart of public structures the vital energies coming from the most advanced and technological training that we can make available to our students thanks to cutting-edge facilities such as the university Simulation Center inaugurated at the end of 2024".
In the city of Rome alone, 19% of Italian students in Dentistry are enrolled, with numbers growing by 24% from 2020 to today. According to the latest Eures report, almost 50% of dentistry graduates feel the need to complete their path with further professional experiences with particular question on technological innovation. The self-assessment on the courses is between 8 and 8,5 for diagnosis, theoretical-scientific and specialist preparation, while it is close to a grade of 7 for innovative techniques and organizational and management skills.
"Italian dentistry represents excellence at a global level thanks to the existence of very high-profile university courses - underlined the teacher. Vincenzo Di Lazzaro, Dean of the Departmental Faculty of Medicine and Surgery UCBM - In this context, our University offers its educational contribution with an extremely innovative project based on cutting-edge technologies but also on a humanistic education. We want to train dentists who are able to adequately respond to the challenges launched by continuous technological evolution but who at the same time, also thanks to the experience gained in the different realities of the Regional Health System, are ready to immediately enter the world of work with the right skills".
The synergy that will be created between public and private, between training and the world of professionals is therefore the starting point for a new vision of the future of dentistry in which generational exchange becomes a guarantee of renewal of skills, improvement of care for patients, replacement of forces in the name of quality, possibility of innovation in care.
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