Department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics

SOPs for functioning of the office:

• Official Working Hours 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

• Maintaining records of all the documents received and dispatched from the department

• To put up all the received documents before the chairman

• To carry out the duty in accordance with the comments of the chairman.

• To make arrangements for the exams conducted in the department

• Filing documents in their respective files (Office file/Personal file/Circular file/ Notice Board file/ PG file/NAAC/IQAC/File for Minutes of BOS).

• To maintain all the details of purchases and expenditure made by the department.

• The following record registers are maintained by the office

Official Work Records

1. Register for received documents

2. Register for dispatch documents

3. Register for departmental meetings

4. Register for BOS

5. Register of leave record of teaching & non-teaching

6. Register for attendance of teaching, non-teaching, post graduates, undergraduates, interns & hygienists

7. Register for duty of teaching & non-teaching during holidays

Clinical Work Records

1. Register for general patient registration in UG CLINIC

2. Register for student patient registration in UG CLINIC

3. Register for patient record in PG CLINIC

4. Register for daily work done record of Consultants, Postgraduates, Undergraduates, Interns, Hygienists

5. Register for equipment allocation to consultants & postgraduates

Financial Records

1. Register for purchase committee meetings

2. Register for immovable assets

3. Register for record of all the instruments in the department

4. Register for record of repair of various items

5. Register for day-to-day expenses

6. Register for consumables items

7. Register for Bank related work TA, DA.

8. Indent book register

SOPs for Teaching and Learning.

Aim: To ensure that the teaching and learning of the undergraduate and post graduate students is carried out in a conducive environment with adherence to high professional standards. To ensure that the learning environment of the dental education program is conducive for the overall professional development of dental students and faculty.

Undergraduate teaching:

1. Lectures: it’s the main mode is theoretical teaching for undergraduate students. The course work is divided among all the faculty members in the beginning of the session according to their respective thrust areas. The teaching schedule for the entire session is passed by the members of the BOS of the department.

2. Pre-clinical training on models, phantom head dental units for learning different treatment techniques before the students are exposed to clinical work.

3. Clinical demonstrations: undergraduate students must be exposed to different clinical procedures through appropriate demonstrations by faculty members.

4. Problem based learning: it mainly includes clinical teaching. Every faculty member on his/her OPD day must take at least 45 minutes of clinical teaching mainly based on a particular clinical problem and then outlining the etiology, pathogenesis and management of that particular problem.

Post-graduate teaching:

1. Seminars: one seminar presentation is to be done by one post-graduate student every week on his/her respective turn. The topics for the seminars are decided by the BOS every year at the beginning of the session for the entire session.

2. Journal Clubs: one article from reputed journals is discussed once a week

3. Group discussion: conducted once a week in which all the postgraduate students and faculty members participate

4. Case Discussions: postgraduate students present their clinical case work in front of the faculty members for discussion and critical appraisal.

5. Pre-clinical Training: postgraduate students are trained on models for mastering different endodontic and restorative procedures and techniques. The post graduate stuedents are required to spend ther first three months of their course in completeing the preclinical work before they enter the clinics. The preclinical work includes the following:

   1. Wax carving pof all the permanent teeth

   2. Root canal treatment on extracted natural teeeth

   3. Typodont exercise

   4. Wax pattern and casting exercises on typodont and extracted natural teeth

   5. Sectioning of the extracted natural teeth for studying endodontic anatomy.

Each section of the preclinical work is supervised by the respective teachers/faculty members as decided in the meeting of the board of studies(BOS) in the begininig of the session.

Postgraduate students shall be granted entry into the clinics only after the completion of the exercises in all the sections of the preclinical work and duly appreoved by the respective teachers/faculty members.

1. Clinical demonstrations: The consultants demonstrate different endodontic, restorative and surgical proceures on selected cases to the postgraduate students in the clinics on their alloted days..

SOP’s for the functioning of the Undergraduate (UG) Clinic