Report of an experience: self-study to foster self-regulated learning for International Dental Degree Program (IDDP) students in Canada

• Autor(a) principal: Grazziotin-Soares, Renata
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Doig, Peter, Ardenghi, Diego Machado
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/1195
• topic: Education; Dental; Students; Evidence-Based Dentistry.; Educação em Odontologia; Estudantes de Odontologia; Odontologia Baseada em Evidências.

This article aimed to briefly report a self-study methodology experience performed in the International Dental Degree Program (IDDP) in a University in Canada. This approach fostered students` self-regulated learning. Due to Covid-19 pandemic the on-site dentistry school classes were discontinued. Students from the IDDP were allowed to go to on-site only to perform pre-clinical activities (supervised by one faculty member at a time). As the 2020 class of the IDDP program was small (2 students), the director of the IDDP Program and faculty members considered that self-study would be an appropriate idea.  We noticed that students were successful in self-regulating their learning. Some of the examples for that were: students used note-taking sheets, monitored their comprehension of class lecture material, asked questions etc. The experience with IDDP students showed that the self-study opportunity was a favorable learning environment for the teaching of pre-clinical disciplines.