Vision
To evolve this dept. into a nationally recognized centre for higher learning in Prosthodontics.
Organisation of the Department
The dept of Prosthodontics is the largest floor wise and strength wise. The Dept trains students from the first year of undergraduate course till the final year BDS and later on the interns. It also runs a postgraduate wing with three students admitted every year to pursue MDS. The dept has a preclinical and a clinical wing. The preclinical wing comprises of dental material and preclinical prosthodontics laboratories along with a museum. It has clinical tutors (BDS) and para dental staff. The clinical wing has undergraduate and postgraduate sections. The undergraduate section has independent patient waiting area, reception area, student training area, laboratory, museum, stores, seminar hall, and instruments sterilization room. On an average the undergraduate section deals with 50 to 60 patients a day.
Undergraduate Program:
Objectives of Undergraduate Training
- To inculcate ethical values in students
- To train students to know, to manipulate, and to use dental materials required for treatment procedures.
- To encourage students to treat the patients independently under supervision.
- To encourage students to take part in scientific discussions and to present scientific papers at higher forum.
- To train students to solve problem based situations with evidence-based protocols.
- To encourage students to assess and meet community needs.
Postgraduate Program:
Postgraduate wing has sophisticated laboratories and maxillofacial prosthetic and implant clinic. It has preclinical and clinical work areas. The postgraduate students have a separate lounge, air-conditioned laboratories, air-conditioned seminar area with dept library and an air-conditioned staff room. The students have access to Internet and they use the modern methods of ICT in teaching and learning. They are encouraged to handle clinical work independently but under supervision. They are given programmes with deadlines. They are detailed to attend higher learning programmes in other parts of the countries. They are also trained in inter-dept activities to assimilate wide-ranging treatment modalities.
Objectives of Postgraduate Training
- To train students in independent thinking and vision while providing treatment for patients
- To make them follow latest techniques and to compulsorily use newer technologies.
- To guide them in research projects
- To detail students to attend and actively participate at state and national level conventions
- To mentor them to modify their attitudes, develop skills and human values.
- To motivate them to visit other institutes, present scientific papers, and to interact with their contemporaries from other parts of India.