4th Phase
DISTRIBUSTION OF TEACHING - LEARNING HOURS :
| Subject | Lecture (in hours) | Tutorial (in hours) | Practical (in hours) | Clinical (in hours | Others/ Demonstration / Dissection + card Exam (in hours) | Integrated teaching (in hours) (Common | Formative Exam | Summative exam | Total hours | ||
| Preparatory leave | Exam Time | Preparatory leave | Exam Time | ||||||||
| Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery | 150 | 65 | - | 125 (P+Cli) | - |
10 hrs |
10 days |
20 days |
10 days | 35 days | 340 |
| Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics | 90 | 50 | 28 | 96 | - | 264 | |||||
| Prosthodontics | 163 | 47 | 71 | 47 | 6 | 334 | |||||
| Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopedics | 180 | 30 | 50 | 80 | - | 340 | |||||
| Pedodontics & Dental Public Health | 137 | 144 | 162 | - | - | 443 | |||||
| Total | 1721 | ||||||||||
| (Time for integrated teaching, examination preparatory leave and for formative & summative assessment is common for all subjects of the phase ) | |||||||||||
EXAMINATION & DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS :
Subjects | Written Exam marks | Structured Oral Exam marks | Practical + Clinical Exam marks | Formative Exam marks | Total Marks |
| Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery | 90 (45+45) | 100 (50+50) | 100 (50+50) | 10 (05+05) | 300 |
| Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics | 90 (45+45) | 100 (50+50) | 100 (50+50) | 10 (05+05) | 300 |
| Prosthodontics | 90 | 100 | 100 | 10 | 300 |
| Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopedics | 90 (45+45) | 100 (50+50) | 100 (50+50) | 10 (05+05) | 300 |
| Pedodontics & Dental Public Health | 90 (45+45) | 100 (50+50) | 100 (50+50) | 10 (05+05) | 300 |
| Total | 1500 | ||||
ASSESSMENT :
- There will be in-course (card/item/term) & end-course (professional) assessment for the students in 4th phase of the course. i.e. formative and professional examination.
- Formative assessment will be done through results of items, card and term ending examination & class attendance.
- For formative assessment, 10% marks of written examination of each paper of each subject is allocated
- For MCQ of each paper, 20% marks are allocated. There will be separate answer script for MCQ part of examination. Total number of MCQ will be 20.
- For SAQ of each paper, 70% marks are allocated
- Oral part of the examination will be structured
- OSPE / OSCE will be used for assessing skills/competencies. Traditional long & short cases will be also used for clinical assessment
- There will be phase final professional examination within the each academic phase.
ELIGIBILITY FOR APPEARING IN THE PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION :
- Certificate from the respective head of departments regarding students obtaining at least 75% attendance in all classes (theory, practical, tutorial, residential field practice, clinical placement etc.) during the phase.
- Obtaining at least 60% marks in examinations.
- No student shall be allowed to appear in the professional examinations unless the student passes in all the subjects of the previous professional examinations.
PASS MARKS :
- Pass marks is 60%. Student shall have to pass written (MCQ + SAQ + formative), oral, practical and clinical examination separately
Internship
After passing final professional BDS examination students have to enroll for one year log book based rotatory internship programme. Within this one year 11 months and 15 days at dental/medical college hospital and 15 days at UHC. Internship programme will be more structured and supervised. It is compulsory to complete internship training programme designed by BM&DC to get permanent registration for doing independent practice.