INTERNATIONAL STAFF AT THE DENTAL FACULTY OF UGMU AS A PART OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

Subject: In 2018, for the first time at the Ural State Medical University dental department, the IADS (International Association of Dental Students) international student exchange program began, during which students are invited to an internship at the dental faculty and the dental clinic of the USMU for 2-4 weeks. Purpose of the article: To show the possibilities of this form of training for future dentists, as an international internship at the dental faculty, as part of student exchange between universities. Material, methods, results: At the end of July 2018, 4 students of the fifth year who studied in the specialty of dentistry at the medical faculty of the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and 1 fourth-year student of the Dental Faculty of the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (Iran) came to the IADS internship for the "Dentistry" (in english). The cycle of training consisted of lectures and practical exercises with development of manual skills. During the cycle the guests got acquainted with the structure of the university, visited the bases of the dental clinic of the Ural Medical State University, dental clinics of the graduates of the USMA. Also, foreign colleagues were organized tours to the vivarium of UGMU, the central research laboratory of UGMU and the laboratory of physical and chemical methods of research of the Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. At the end of the cycle, the guests noted the high saturation of the course with practical exercises, the availability of visual material and the equipment of classes with equipment and tools. Conclusions: Carrying out an international internship for foreign students is one of the steps to forming a multilingual environ at the university, whose goal is to enter the international educational and scientific space.