Revitalizing Dental Education: Aligning Curriculum with Contemporary Dentistry
A 4-year BDS curriculum is followed in dental colleges since inception of Pakistan. Modern dentistry has gone far ahead and many contemporary core subjects are found missing from it due to shorter length of time. In many countries, our dental graduates are not accepted for employment for this reaso...
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KARACHI MEDICAL AND DENTAL COLLEGE
2024-02-01
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A 4-year BDS curriculum is followed in dental colleges since inception of Pakistan. Modern dentistry has gone far ahead and many contemporary core subjects are found missing from it due to shorter length of time. In many countries, our dental graduates are not accepted for employment for this reason. It is need of the hour to look into the matter with some serious outlook and modify it as per the requirement of time. A 5-year education plan will best suit to accommodate the contemporary missing subjects.
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| spelling | doaj.art-3bdfc083aa904ce4acb952d0834c51f82024-03-01T09:44:51ZengKARACHI MEDICAL AND DENTAL COLLEGEAnnals of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and Karachi Medical & Dental College1563-32412024-02-01291Revitalizing Dental Education: Aligning Curriculum with Contemporary DentistryAsaad Javaid mirza0Mohammad Amin1Saadia Saad2Baqai Medical UniversityTaibah Univeristy, MadinahBaqai Medical University A 4-year BDS curriculum is followed in dental colleges since inception of Pakistan. Modern dentistry has gone far ahead and many contemporary core subjects are found missing from it due to shorter length of time. In many countries, our dental graduates are not accepted for employment for this reason. It is need of the hour to look into the matter with some serious outlook and modify it as per the requirement of time. A 5-year education plan will best suit to accommodate the contemporary missing subjects. https://www.annals-ashkmdc.org/index.php/ashkmdc/article/view/717Dental curriculummodifying dental curriculumcotemporary dentistry |
| spellingShingle | Asaad Javaid mirza Mohammad Amin Saadia Saad Revitalizing Dental Education: Aligning Curriculum with Contemporary Dentistry Annals of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and Karachi Medical & Dental College Dental curriculum modifying dental curriculum cotemporary dentistry |
| title | Revitalizing Dental Education: Aligning Curriculum with Contemporary Dentistry |
| title_full | Revitalizing Dental Education: Aligning Curriculum with Contemporary Dentistry |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Revitalizing Dental Education: Aligning Curriculum with Contemporary Dentistry |
| title_short | Revitalizing Dental Education: Aligning Curriculum with Contemporary Dentistry |
| title_sort | revitalizing dental education aligning curriculum with contemporary dentistry |
| topic | Dental curriculum modifying dental curriculum cotemporary dentistry |
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