Educare from a student perspective.

The curriculum helps to create a graduate in Dental Science who has adequate knowledge, necessary skills and such attitudes which are required for carrying out all the activities appropriate to general dental practice involving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of anomalies and diseases of the teeth, mouth, jaws and associated tissues. The area that needs improvement is the use of advanced materials in the field which are not taught by the curriculum but self taught.

Compulsory internship of one year is to be done after course completion , only by doing so will we get the course certificate , a meagre salary of 4000 per month is given during internship to the practicing interns and interns can also take up seminars or research topics under different departments and go through it. Internship is divided among different departments. Stipend of 4000 is not enough for anything, but it's given.

For a government merit student in 2019 fee's were Tuition fee 321300 per year for 5 years Special fee of 33100 Union fee 4500 Caution deposit at the time of admission 10000 in college 8000 for hostel caution deposit Material chargers vary between 1 to 1.5 lakhs taken during first year Extra expenses include Material chargers for doing lab procedures in certain departments Expenses to buy lab instruments and diagnostic instrument. Examination fees of every year varies For students belonging to reservation categories There will be no tution fees and hostel fees but other expenses remain

There will be an inter batch competition held along the whole year with different competitions occurring at different times of the year An interhouse competition held once a year , comprising of four houses in which all the students and staff are equally divided into A staff vs. Students competition involving sports. A college day which comprise dance and other cultural activities and programmes. There is cricket and football played daily in the college ground. There are a wide variety of books based on academics and others at library. A provision of computers are available at library for use. A student run union is conducting the programs at college throughout the year. A convocation ceremony is carried out each year for passing out interns.

Hostel is mostly compulsory for students from far away regions in first year except people in the same district as the college is , for them it's day scholars scheme, There are 3 meals and 1 tea and snacks given in canteen for hostelers and the food is average quality and palatable, the students might have a hard time adjusting to the canteen food. Hostel registration is done during admission and rendered 5 each year. I rented a room 3 kms away from college and commit to college using my bike Pay rent of 2k per month and food from outside.

You need to get pass marks in physics, biology and chemistry in higher secondary and need to be eligible in neet entrance exams and apply in the allotment and if you are eligible you will get seat in the college of your choice if you have good marks , depending on reservation categories the seat availability may vary. I didn't get admission to psm dental college which was my first option because i didn't have the seat availability in OBC category. Second option was EDUCARE.

Faculty to student ratio varies with each year and faculties usually take good care of the students and make sure everyone is going along with academics. Each year has that one special faculty who takes after the students and cares for them and also listens to their personal problems and there's mentorship programmes in which a mentor who is a staff is assigned a certain number of students to look after and keep in check throughout the year. There are a total of 5 sets of exams and the last one being just after 6 months from the exam before. There's practical exams for each subjects and usually practical exams are easy, but theory is hard to pass.