Oral Hygiene: Oral Hygiene
Code: SXP25K2
- Degree title
- Oral Hygienist
- Credits
- 210 ects
- Duration
- 3.5 years (210 cr)
- Start semester
- Spring 2025
- Teaching language
- Finnish
Descriptions
The curriculum offers students a learning path which enables a flexible study process including a provision of multidisciplinary studies from other degree programmes or a variety of general studies available for all students at Helsinki Metropolia UAS. The curriculum also serves as a source of information for the working environment and our international partners.
The provision of studies consists of study units providing a minimum of 5 ECTS credits. Innovation project is common with other degree programs. The multidisciplinary approach to learning is also embraced by offering students the possibility of choosing a multidisciplinary, elective study module of 15 ECTS comprising one or more multi-field modules as well. The provision of studies enables students to complete 30 ECTS in the term.
Some studies can be organized in English.
Development
The curriculum meets the demands of degree requirements, competence and development needs of the working environment as well as the requirements for the national and international cooperation. It also reflects a student-oriented and learning- and competence-based foundation. Learning objectives convey students of the competence level required of them and help them evaluate their own learning. The objectives of competence have been determined in cooperation with representatives of both the workplace and Helsinki Metropolia UAS and therefore convey information of students’ competence levels and readiness for work tasks to the workplace. Competence-based curriculum enables student mobility within and between other UAS. In addition, it makes the recognition and credit transfer for previously acquired competence (AHOT) easier as well as enables the comparison of degrees obtained in different countries.
International studies are part of the learning path of each learner in the form of international exchange, practice placement or international studies within home institution, such as common core requirement studies in English or Finnish degree programmes or open studies in international network learning environments.
Further information
Responsible for the curriculum, head of degree program Riikka Jokimäki
Administrator for the curriculum, Programme Coordinator Tanja Kaipiainen.
Objective
As a starting point for learning, the focus is on situations and problems arising from professional practices, and the learning process aims to find evidence-based solutions for them. Project work including development work and projects of the student’s field of study is employed as the main learning method. Various learning environments supporting learning are used to deepen and develop competence, for example in the learning environments of pharmacotherapy, health promotion and simulation. As for the learning environments of independent study, they offer students the opportunity to practise clinical skills. The teaching methods have been diversified by increasing the possibilities for digital learning. Throughout the learning process, students assume the responsibility for their learning. Their competence in studies is evaluated by an evaluation framework, which consists of competence areas including professional knowledge base, professional skills and actions as well as ethics, cooperation and development. Students become proficient in continuous development of their competence and further studies.
In the early stage of the Degree programme of Oral Hygienist, before working with the patients, the practical training takes place in simulated learning environment in the learning studio. There the student practices clinical oral health care. The simulation environment creates a reproduction of the clinical caring situation of the patient. In that case the motoric skills of the student and the control of the caring environment develops. As the clinical skills have been accumulated, the student practices the clinical oral health care at the Metropolia oral health care teaching clinic. There the students take care of the patients referred by the dentists of Oral Health Care of the City of Helsinki either independently or as a professional team work with the dentistry students of the University of Helsinki.
The internship is 75 ECTS: the training will take place both in the simulation environment and in working life.
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