{"id":1273,"date":"2023-08-25T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:06:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:06:02","slug":"smd-meets-with-a3es-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/2023\/08\/25\/smd-meets-with-a3es-board-of-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"SMD Meets with A3ES Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the institutional meeting between the Dentists&#8217; Union <em>[&#8220;Sindicato dos M\u00e9dicos Dentistas&#8221; \u2013 SMD] <\/em>and the Board of Directors of the Higher Education Assessment and Accreditation Agency <em>[&#8220;Ag\u00eancia de Avalia\u00e7\u00e3o e Acredita\u00e7\u00e3o Do Ensino Superior&#8221; &#8211; A3ES],<\/em> the &#8220;issue of professional vacancies in some institutions, which clearly contributes to poor quality teaching,&#8221; was addressed, according to a digital publication by the SMD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a meeting in which &#8220;important commitments were agreed&#8221;, the SMD emphasised &#8220;the lack of regulation [within the sector] that has prevailed over the last decade&#8221;, thus allowing the number of &#8220;dentists to double&#8221;, while also &#8220;demanding&#8221; that &#8220;the available tools be used to amend the situation&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This institutional meeting was attended by representatives of the SMD, namely, Jo\u00e3o Neto, Isabel Banza and Teresa Eliseu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/SMD-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/SMD-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/SMD-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Teresa Eliseu and Isabel Banza<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a gathering that took place on the 20th of July, the meeting was the starting point for SMD to express &#8220;its concern surrounding the increase in the numerus clausus, the opening of yet another dental course and the lack of quality in its teaching&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[130,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}