For Sabhya Sharma, a third-year student of the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) programme at the Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences (MAIDS) in New Delhi, the confidence in his skills is a result of his experience on the campus. Last year, the institute treated a whopping 400,000 patients. “We start seeing patients from the third year itself after formal training. That is helpful, as by the time you graduate, you have hands-on training. I also like the structured approach to learning—we have a mandatory one-year internship in the college itself and, from the third year, we are posted in each and every department, so you learn many skill-sets before deciding which one really appeals to you,” says Sharma. Alumni, too, speak highly of the exposure MAIDS offers. “Meeting so many patients is great for confidence. You also get to build a really strong network of professionals—so that even now when I have patients, I can refer them further on to trusted professionals,” says Dr Nida Nayyer, a 2015 BDS graduate, and currently a senior resident at AIIMS, Bhubaneswar.
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