title: [The application of Simodont system in dental education in the Netherlands].
abstract: Dental education in the Netherlands is composed of medical education and dental education. The most important things of the dental education in Netherlands are to foster students' independent learning and innovative spirit. Universities provide advanced facilities, reasonable curricular arrangement and characteristic education system. Great importance is attached to training students' practical skills and ability to apply knowledge to practice. Meanwhile, they developed a virtual digital system named Simodont, which optimize the pre-practice training and promote the training of diagnosis thinking and treatment skills. The advanced education system and approaches in the Netherlands are of great benefit to the stomatological education in China.
authors.affiliation: School of Stomatology, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Zhejiang Province, China. liuyizzd@163.com
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yuan-na
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Yue-lian
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Zhi-yuan
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Gu
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D004497:Education, Dental; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands