Faculty development programs help dental faculty members to be associated with emerging trends, to stay in tune with the latest trends and techniques in dentistry and provide quality care to their patients and quality education to students. Our institution has created a Dental Education Unit for the range and quality of Faculty Development Programmes in emerging trends in Dental Educational Technology.

The objectives of the Dental Education Unit are as follows

  1. To provide ongoing professional development opportunities.
  2. To share knowledge acquired freely.
  3. To stay up-to-date on current trends in dentistry by conducting workshops, symposiums and CDE programs
  4. To offer students clinical orientation
  5. To develop department-level policies to enhance classroom teaching
  6. To implement problem-based learning in accordance with the curriculum
  7. To employ best practices in question paper setting
  8. To sensitize faculty to digital evaluation methods
  9. To continuously monitor and provide feedback for internal audit and quality control
  10. Improving the quality of Faculty Development Programs by carrying out self-assessments
  11. Encouraging understanding of ethical and legal issues that influence dental practice
  12. Cultivating lifelong learning habits
  13. Ensuring that courses cover a wide range of relevant topics