V.S.P.M Dental College and Research Center, Nagpur

Background

Dental Education today must ensure that professionals are well equipped to deal with the challenges of tomorrow. in increasingly globalized scenario, the way we educate our professionals will decide the future of our country.

Dental Education strives to balance the use of traditional teaching methods with technically advanced systems to meet the needs of an ever expanding curriculum

Primary goals include the development of a knowledge base for a problem solving, fostering inquisitive mind and a critical appreciation of developments. Secondary goals include gaining knowledge of human behavior and skills in patient communication and management.

Educators are faced with many challenges like limited time of didactic and clinical coursework, limited clinical material, so on. Therefore it is important that expectation of what can be achieved should be realistic but at the same time training should make clinicians who are able to manage problems in given situation & available resources and also adapt themselves to future demands of profession.

Thus need to produce effective teachers; ones who are ‘Competent’ (have clinical knowledge & skills) as well as ‘performers’ (able to impart the knowledge & skills to their pupils) also.

Mission

To create and sustain well-trained faculty base and to encourage education related research for academic advancement.

Vision

To provide quality dental health-care to community by excellence in dental education.