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The goal of the Department of Health Professional Education (DHPE) is to provide high level professional educational services to support and enhance the teaching role of the Medical and Dental College. The Bhitai Dental and Medical College has implemented curriculum which matches international guideline. The aim of DHPE is to provide educational information, advice and facilitate the implementation of best internationally credible educational practice within the curriculum.

Achieving this aim requires activity in the areas of curriculum planning, teaching and learning and assessment. Evaluation of the outcomes of the curriculum and teaching quality is an integral part of this process. DHPE assists faculty in delivering high quality undergraduate and postgraduate educational activities in future. Methods of teaching practice are evolving rapidly in response to changes in the traditional learning environment and educational technology. Objective oriented and properly structured evaluation techniques have become an integral part of the educational process The Department of Health Professional Education facilitates the provision of a range of state-of-the-art facilities to enhance teaching and learning.

This includes operating clinical skills laboratory and the use of information technology for communication between staff and students and distance and independent learning. The Department has sufficient number of trained staff members and fully equipped audio-visual department and a computer section for devising educational innovations / techniques and teacher’s training programs.