Post #5: Postgraduate studies

Good news, everyone.

In this post I'll be talking a little about a postgraduate course that I'm interested in:

Geriatric Dentistry, also known as Geriodontics.

Why? Well, if you take a close look at the demographic in Chile you can see that the population is experimenting some notorious ageing, so doing a little specialization in geriatrics (health care for elderly people) seems pretty logical to me.

One of the main subjects that I want to study is the caries in elderly people. 

For example, the elderly have an increased risk for root caries due to gingival recession and use of medications that in groups produce xerostomia (feeling that your mouth is dry).

Personally, I'd like to study this course here in Chile because as far as I know the revalidation process (if the studies are done out of the country) to practice this profession is way too harsh here, up to a point where the difficulty is just absurd, according to many people that have experienced this process.

If possible I'd choose to do a part-time course, the reason being that I feel I understand more and it is easier to keep concentrated because of a face-to-face interaction between the student and the teacher, things I won't frequently experience in a distance learning course.