Dental Education Unit

• 2 FAIMER fellows, 2 completed, 1 ongoing
• Unit members are a part of quality assurance unit of university, academic society, cultural committee and many more
• Publications in Dental education journals
• Resource faculty towards: Training faculty in Basic Dental eductation and faculty development programs
  • Orientation towards OSPE/OSCE
  • Communication skills for undergraduate and postgraduates
  • Organizing orientation programmes for UGs and PGs, workshops on scientific writing and dissertation writing for PGs
  • Contribution to NAAC accreditation works, Internal quality assurance cell
  • Editorial board members

Research Projects

FAIMER

• Dr Sunila B Sangappa - Communication Skills for Patient Care by the Third year Graduate Students in an Indian Dental School
• Dr Chandrashekar B R - Completed - Empowering Identification and counseling skills of dental Undergraduate students using customize tobacco counseling
• Dr.Bhagyalakshmi Avinash - Ongoing - Improving Health Outcomes of patients with Nasal Obstruction- An Interprofessional Collaborative Project between Orthodontics, Otorhinolaryngology & Paediatrics.

Publications

• Sunila B Sangappa, Thomas V Chacko, and Shital Bhandhary Ensuring student competence in essential Dental Consultation Communication skills for Patient care: Developing Validating and Piloting a comprehensive checklist World Journal of Dentistry,2019 ; Nov-Dec :413-21
• Bhagyalakshmi Avinash and Chandrashekar C "Optimal Paediatric Upper Airway Health for Healthy Breathing". EC Paediatrics ECO.02
• Sunila B Sangappa, Ara Tekian. Introduction of a communication skills course in an Indian undergraduate dental curriculum: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Dental Education 2013 78(8) 1092 - 98
• Sunila B Sangappa, Mehendele AV .Instructional design for Assessment of Dental Esthetic Treatment Needs in an Indian Undergraduate School - A Randomised Controlled Trial. J Indian Prosthodont Soc. 2014 Dec (Suppl 1):137-43
• Vasanti Lagali-Jirge, Poornima Kadagad, Sunila B Sangappa etal. Introducing evidence-based dentistry to undergraduates in the Indian dental curriculum Indian Journal of Health Sciences. 2015: 8 (2) 130-135.
• Meenakshi S, Raghunath N, Shreeshyla H S. Teaching and learning practices-A questionnaire study for dental educators of Karnataka.J Intl Soc Prevent Communit Dent20177:S 179-85

Presentations