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KIEL, Germany: Academics at the Faculty of Medicine at Kiel University have developed a new international master’s degree programme to offer further training for university lecturers in the field of dentistry and medicine. The accredited International Master of Applied Scientific Dental/Medical Education and Research will be offered for the first time this coming winter semester.
“Above all, we want to strengthen the quality of research and teaching in the field of oral medicine and present our teaching approaches, as well as international approaches with this new master’s degree programme,” said Prof. Jörg Wiltfang, Director of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein. Wiltfang will co-ordinate the degree programme at the Faculty of Medicine together with Prof. Christof Dörfer, Director of the Department of Dental Preservation and Periodontics at the centre. The advanced degree programme is intended to appeal to the next generation of academics and particularly to international candidates.
During the two-year degree programme, lecturers will teach students the fundamentals of research, establishing a research group, structuring studies and publishing research results. Internationally recognised research results, in particular, also from the Faculty of Medicine, will determine the content of the degree programme. In addition, teaching methods, quality management, staff management and communication are topics included in the curriculum. Students will also learn how to develop and implement teaching curricula independently in accordance with current didactic standards.
The part-time advanced degree programme in this form is unique in Germany and is arranged across four semesters. Twenty places are available per semester. In order to gain admission to the programme, prospective candidates must provide evidence that they have obtained a degree in Medicine or Dentistry and are currently working or had previously worked at a university. Those interested can register for the coming winter semester until 1 October 2014.
The programme was developed in collaboration with the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at Kiel University and the Institute for Quality Development of Schools in Schleswig-Holstein.
