Pimpri-based D Y Patil University. This comes close on the heels of a similar recognition extended last year by Malaysia to the university’s medical degree (MBBS) course.
Speaking to TOI, D Y Patil University’s (DYPU) deputy director V S Anand said, “The recognition will enable students passing out with a BDS degree from our university to directly pursue the medical profession as private practitioners or in government jobs in Malaysia.”
Simultaneously, the recognition will enable non-resident Indian (NRI) as well as Malaysian students to undertake their dental degree studies at the DYPU campus in Pimpri from 2010-11 onwards, he said.
The DYPU is a deemed university, which offers degree as well as post-graduate programmes in medical, dental and other health science streams.
The university admits 100 students for its BDS course and 43 students for its post-graduate dental programmes on an annual basis, said Anand. Similarly, DYPU’s annual student intake for the MBBS course is 150 seats and for the post-graduate (PG) medical course it is 100 seats.
For the entire five-year and three-year duration for degree and PG courses the number of total medical students works out to 750 and 300 respectively, while 500 seats and 129 seats are available in the dental programmes.
A six-member study team of the Malaysian government and the Malaysian dental council, headed by the health ministry in-charge, officer Norian Abu Talib Datin, earlier visited the DYPU campus for an inspection vis-a-vis academic standards and quality of programmes, infrastructure and allied facilities. The DYPU vice chancellor, P D Patil, made an elaborate presentation to the visiting Malaysian team.
Anand said, “The Malaysian recognition was critical to the university’s overall objective of spreading its presence in different countries in South East Asia as well as in the US. We are applying for US recognition soon.”
He said, “Most countries have standards and norms of their own for regulating the medical and dental profession. For instances, the Indian Medical Council and the Indian government does not recognise medical degrees awarded by institutions in Russia. For that matter, students with foreign medical degrees have to undertake a screening test to qualify for practice in India.”
In this context, he said, “The Malaysian government’s recognition opens up an additional avenue for our students to look out for, vis-a-vis pursuing practice in a foreign country.”
The DYPU dental college and hospital ranks among the first few colleges that were granted an A’ grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (Naac). It offers specialisation in nine areas in the field of dentistry
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