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The distance education via Internet, known as e-learning is already a reality in many learning institutions worldwide. In Brazil , some successful initiatives are providing to their students ways of accessing information, allowing them to have total autonomy to keep themselves updated when and where it is most convenient - such as distance updating programs, Pro-Odonto, the result of a partnership between ABO and Artmed/Panamericana Editora and implemented through the Health System in Distance Continuing Education (Sescad).
All those enrolled in the Pro-Odonto also have this new manner of educational updating via Web - a virtual environment for modern and dynamic learning. The sites of post-graduation programs in Surgery, Aesthetics, Prevention, Implant Dentistry and Orthodontics are accessed by hundreds of members each month through the site www.sescad.com.br . In those sites, students find important complementary material for updating, especially produced for e-learning system and that meets the needs of each dentistry specialty besides news; scientific issues on more complex matters, with specialists being interviewed about approached subjects; events of their expertise area; and information from abstracts of international scientific papers presenting researches and new procedures that are fundamental to their daily practice, among other contents.
The virtual library is another important source that is made available through the e-Learning. Among the latest contents offered is the abstract of "Treatment effects of mini-implants for en-masse retraction of anterior teeth in bialveolar dental protrusion patients: a randomized controlled trial," from the edition of last July's American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.
There are new contents in the portals of all programs, keeping the dentist up to date with the best in national and international scientific production.
Further information: www.sescad.com.br
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