The Dental Council of India (DCI) is keen to redesign the dental education system of the country with the purpose to improve the skill of the dental practitioners to ensure safety of patients and improve the health care quality of the country.
DCI president Dibyendu Mazumdar stated in the 2nd international conference on EBES held at Suman Vidyapeeth that, evidence-based system (EBES) was best-suited for redesigning the dental education programme.
EBES is an approach to every aspects of education from policy making to classroom practice, and the methods used are based on consistent evidence derived from experiments. The DCI president announced that Suman Vidyapeeth will work as a nodal centre for imparting such education to all 302 dental colleges in the country.
