Dental Education Unit

Dental Education Unit

The Dental Education Unit (DEU) at Bharati Vidyapeeth Dental College, Navi Mumbai, focuses on improving student outcomes by training faculty, promoting research, and supporting a learner-centric curriculum. It fosters ethical, compassionate learning, aligns education with community needs, and collaborates with experts.

The DEU trains faculty in modern methods, supports professional development, and manages quality assurance. Through continuous curriculum improvement and resource development, it enhances dental education's effectiveness and relevance.

Our Vision

Excellence and Leadership in Dental Education towards Improved Student Outcomes

Our Mission

To nurture faculty through training and mentoring, and to inspire and support research and innovation in the educational process towards sustaining a learner-centric, competency-based and outcome-driven dynamic dental curriculum.

Aims:

To promote and support a humanistic and compassionate learning environment that facilitates an ethical, respectful, and culturally aligned approach to patient care and working with other health care providers.
To advance the quality of dental education at BVDU Dental College & Hospital, Navi Mumbai towards improved student outcomes.
To nurture professionalism in dental education. To align curriculum with evolving community needs, practice philosophies, and scientific/ technological advancements through ongoing monitoring, evaluation and recommendations.
To consult and collaborate with educational experts to achieve DEU’s aims.

Activities:

To impart training in educational methods and technology* to the faculty of BVDU Dental College & Hospital, Navi Mumbai and of other dental colleges in the region and the country.
To develop expertise required for performing the role of competent and effective teacher, administrator, researcher and mentor.
To update knowledge using modern information and research methodology tools. Sustain a learner-centric, competency-based and outcome-driven dynamic dental curriculum.
Conduct training programs in educational research methodology, statistics and evidence based methods.
Develop a resource collection consisting of books, journals and journal articles, monographs, computer media, curricula, syllabi, course modules, question banks, quality standards, etc. relevant to educational science, technology, and research.
Establish linkages with units, organisations, associations, and such entities that promote health professionals’ education and research. Inspire and support research and innovations by faculty through assistance in developing implementable proposals.
Train faculty in and manage Quality Assurance Processes**.
Constitute a panel of resource persons.
Other suitable activities for realisation of the department's vision, mission and aims.

Educational Methods and Technology:

Curriculum Design and Evaluation
Teaching & Learning Methods and Media
Principles of Assessment
Assessment Methods
Online Learning and Assessment
Learning Management Systems
Educational Research and Innovation

Quality Assurance Processes:

Writing Course Specification
Writing Course Reports
Responsibilities and Functions of Course Coordinators
Responsibilities and Functions of Course Faculty
Course File Readiness at the beginning of the term
Completion of Course File documents at the end of the term
Preparation of Annual Program Report
Peer Teaching Observation
Program Learning Assessment Plan
Measurement and Reporting
Achievement of Course Learning Outcomes and Program Learning Outcomes
Updating Program Specification, Course Specification and Course Report Forms
Training Quality Assurance Facilitators

Structure:

The DEU will consist of the following staff who will work under the overall direction and supervision of Dr. Shailesh Lele (Academic Development & Quality Assurance):

1.	Course Director & Resource Person	Dr. Shailesh Lele
2.	Course Resource Person	Dr. Gauri Lele
3.	DEU Head- Principal	Dr.V.Sreenivasan
4.	Chief Coordinator	Dr.Prajakta Rao
5.	Coordinator- Academic Development	Dr.Mirella Vaz
6.	Coordinator- Quality Assurance	Dr.Vinayak Thorat

Designations of Our Course Director and Resource persons

Dr. Shailesh Lele, MDS, Dip.Med.Edu. (Dundee), FAIMER Institute Fellow (Philadelphia),

Dr. Gauri Lele, MDS, MBA (Edu. Mgmt.), FAIMER Regional Institute Fellow (Mumbai), and PhD (Education) scholar

Standard Operating Procedures:

General: Related to Committee composition, functioning, meetings and record, distribution of tasks, requesting the Principal to co-opt members, organisation of training sessions including feedback and reporting, webpage creation and maintenance, social media presence Activity.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Responsibility of Administrative assistant :

To do all the clerical work related to DEU
To communicate with the members of the DEU and update them about the meetings and activities
To record the minutes of meeting
To maintain the records

2. Responsibility of Coordinator-Academic development:

To communicate with all the students and convey the messages regarding the committee decisions
To integrate activities of dental education unit with academic programs
To act as a bridge between the committee and the academic curriculum
To convey the gaps present between the academic development and existing curriculum through feedback systems to the DEU

3. Responsibility of Coordinator- Quality Assurance

To attend each and every meetings with active participation
To act as a quality monitor for the activities conducted by DEU and other committees
To integrate record keeping amongst the academic and quality development
To activate the quality mandates by various governing agencies into the DEU activities

4. Responsibility of Chief Coordinator

To supervise the entire committee activities and record keeping
To act on the road map constructed by DEU for the welfare of all stakeholders
To maintain communication within all the committee members
To follow the instructions laid down by the university and Head of the DEU
To prepare the activity calendar for the academic year
To be responsible for conducting and organising the activities under DEU

5. Responsibility of DEU Head

To supervise the entire committee
To act in the overall development in the curriculum
To permit and screen the activities conducted under the wing of DEU
To communicate with the university regarding the unit developments
To synchronise the activities of DEU with other units of Bharati Vidyapeeth Dental Colleges.

Guidelines for organising meetings of Dental Education Unit

The meetings of Dental Education Unit are supposed to be held Minimum once in a month. All the members of the DEU are supposed to attend the meetings positively.

The members can meet more than once in a month depending on the requirement for the activity conduction by the Committee.

Guidelines for Conduction of Meeting:

1. The decision to call for meetings will be taken by DEU Head, The Principal of the institute.
2. The DEU Head and the Chief coordinator should decide and discuss the agenda of the meeting beforehand and it should be well informed to the members in advance.
3. The meetings should be conducted in either the Dental Education Unit or in the Principal’s Office
4. The members should be informed beforehand about the time, date and the venue of the meeting along with the agenda of the meeting.
5. It should be ensured that at least 75% of the members should attend the meeting.
6. Minutes of the meeting have to be prepared within the next 3 consecutive days and have to be signed by the attended members. The report of the same has to be filed and maintained.

Guidelines for Organising CDE /Workshop /Hands-on /Conference /Convention

1. The workshops or events can be organised by the DEU for the training of faculty members in the form of CDE /Workshop /Hands-on /Conference /Convention.
2. The CDE programs are usually of a short gathering in which the person specialised in a subject is invited to present on the same.
3. The hands-on includes training and demonstration of practical procedures which one needs to apply in their practice.
4. Workshops involve group discussion and also hands-on training of certain procedures. The conference and the conventions are meant for the huge gathering with the multiple speakers in it and it may have different workshops and the hands-on courses included in it.
5. DEU organises these activities as per the annual calendar prepared and coordinated with different units of Bharati Vidyapeeth Dental Colleges.
6. The information regarding the conduction, dates, place, participants and required infrastructure will be clearly intimated to the stakeholders at least 3 weeks in advance.
7. The report of the activity will be prepared by the Chief coordinator and will be submitted to the Head of the Institute within 3 days of completion of the event.

Guidelines for conducting an innovative/ New teaching technique/Education practice/ Education project by any department

1. Any department wishing to conduct any innovative teaching practice for the students/ peers/ education project, has to inform the DEU about the same in advance.
2. The activity has to be prepared under the supervision of the DEU with appropriate procedures defined in advance by the committee.
3. The proposal of the event/ research project has to be submitted and to be conducted after approval from the committee.
4. The activity/ research project should take appropriate feedback from the stakeholders standardised by the DEU.
5. The report of the activity/education project has to be submitted to the DEU after completion of the same within 3-5 days of the activity/project.
6. Any publication which incorporates the teaching technique/ research project related to education has to be validated by the DEU and should include the acknowledgement of the DEU, Bharati Vidyapeeth Dental College, Navi Mumbai

1st Faculty development programme- DEU