The undergraduate training programme commences in the IIIrd year and continues till final year IInd term i.e. for a total duration of 2 years. Students have clinical postings for 15 days in IIIrd year and for 1 month in final year. During the clinical postings, students receive the opportunity to examine patients, evaluate oral health status with various oral health disease indices and plan suitable treatments. Theory classes are taken in the final year. Students are trained in etiology, diagnosis and management of the prevention and treatment of all the oral conditions at the individual and community level. They are taught to identify social, economic, environmental and emotional determinants in a given individual patient or a community with the purpose of planning and executing a community oral health programme.