Academic Programmes
UnderGraduate Programme & Curriculum
The Department is involved in training undergraduate students in a holistic manner. Apart from lectures, exercises are designed to help the student understand the community aspects of dentistry. The students are required to submit a seminar on their allotted topics.
Field programs:
- Assessment of oral health status of the community using WHO proforma
- Preparation of oral health education material like posters, models, stage plays, skits, lectures etc.
- Understanding community health problems
- Visit to primary health centres
- Visit to water purification units
- Visit to waste disposal units
- Visit to water recycling plants
- Visit to incineration plants
- Visit to rural satellite centres run by the institution
- Organization of community oral health programme
- School dental health programme
- Oral and dental treatment camps for rural and semi-urban population
- Rural centre postings for the interns
- WHO and door-to-door health surveys for interns