‘What they do not teach in a dental college!’

‘What they do not teach in a dental college!’

One of the ‘Life me kuche bhi ho sakta hi’ moment.

Delivering the 7^th Annual Oration at the national Conference of the Indian Society of Prosthodontics – Restorative – Periodontics (ISPRP) at Bhopal on 23^rd August 2014.

ISPRP is India’s first common platform for dental specialist, where dentists belonging to Prosthdontics - Restorative dentistry and Periodontics have interdisciplinary exchange.

My preparation started with getting acquainted with the association, the speciality of stakeholders, spoke to friends in respective department and then narrowed down to this unusual topic ‘What they do not teach in a dental college!’

I am sharing the titles of the slides:

·       Three keystones of the profession – Competency, Concern for the Patient, Credibility

·       Is this efficiency effective? Is this proficiency adequate enough for him to progress

a)    Facets that are essential for professional practice: Practice Modules

b)   Digital Technology

c)    Small establishment entrepreneurship

d)   How to be a good teacher: Teaching methodologies

e)    Research: Dental Audit, Representing our work in academic conferences

f)     Laws & Practice:

g)    Organising oneself: Team leader.

h)   Stress In Dentist

i)      Self – Audit

j)      When should a dentist retire?

·       Already known to us, however, WE don’t notice them

·       Competition Vs Collaboration

·       Future of Dentistry

·       Intelligence, Knowledge, wisdom and devotion

·       Let dentist become a thinking being

·       What does ‘Think Correctly’ mean?

·       What is good teacher?

·       What is a good student?

I believe the talk found receptivity with people who were predisposed. It looked that at the end of the talk some were heightened with sensitivity, some were participative and some others responded. 

Dr Sharad M Tanga