title: Dental education: current scenario and future trends.
abstract: India has more than 290 dental institutions, producing over 25,000 BDS graduates every year. There are three main characteristics that are shared by any profession: Delivering the best possible education to its students, giving priority to public service over self-interest and enforcing regulations and codes of ethics through self-government. Dentistry in India is currently being challenged to maintain the professionalism. This is partly a result of pressures applied to the educational system. This article discusses some challenges in brief and attempts to attend the challenges in positive manner.
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, Kalka Dental College, Meerut Uttar Pradesh, India. drsheeba_sharma@rediffmail.com
authors.forename: Sheeba
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Vasantha
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vijayaraghavan
authors.forename: Piyush
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tandon
authors.forename: D R V
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Hemant
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Yogesh
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Rao
mesh_terms: D032781:Codes of Ethics; D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000639:trends*; D004990:Ethics, Dental; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D011361:Professional Competence; D013335:Students, Dental; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods