Section 3 in Dental Council of India, Master of Dental Surgery Course Regulations, 2017
3. General Conditions.
(1)The institutions recognised by the Central Government and after consultation with the Council shall be eligible for conducting the post-graduate degree or diploma course(s).(2)The maximum number of students for a post-graduate course, for training for the award of post-graduate degree or diploma by the affiliating university, shall be determined by the facilities available in the department in terms of infrastructure, teaching staff and clinical teaching material. However, to start with, a maximum of three postgraduate students, (one Unit) shall be permitted in a speciality department. The annual intake capacity recommended by the Council and approved by the Central Government for the academic year shall be final. No institution shall be permitted to increase more than three seats at a time in its annual intake capacity in a particular speciality in a given academic year. Not more than two units consisting of six seats (including increase of seats) shall be granted to any dental institutions for each speciality.(3)The students undergoing post-graduate courses shall be exposed to the following:-(i)basics of bio-statistics and research methodology;(ii)basics of human behaviour studies;(iii)basics of pharmaco-economics;(iv)introduction to the non-linear mathematics.
