Integrated Clinical Dentistry

The department commonly known as ICD Department, provides academic teaching and clinical training in all undergraduate dentistry programmes (BDS, BOH & BDT) in the school of Dentistry.  ICD Department enhances practicing dentistry profession with integrity, professionalism, accountability and building mutual trust as a means to establish harmonious clinician – patient relationship.

At the exit level of the BDS programme (BDS5), the students are empowered to integrate the theoretical and clinical skills learning gained from all the disciplines in the previous four years of their studies, to comprehensively manage their own patients and develop the skill to evaluate their own learning through self-reflection.

The School prides itself as the first (1^st) Dental School in South Africa to offer Comprehensive Clinical Cases (CCC) module at the final year of BDS, which allows individual student a full year of general dental practice in preparation for a professional life as a dentist. ICD hosts the white coat oath-taking ceremony at the beginning of the academic year to welcome BDS5 students to final year and CCC clinic

The Department’s research interests are: Ethical Practice Management, Comprehensive Clinical Cases, Multidisciplinary/Integrated Learning, Dental Education, Interprofessional Education, Competency based Curriculum planning.