University of the East College of Dentistry

University of the East College of Dentistry

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name = College of Dentistry


established = 1948
type = Private
city = Sampaloc
state = Manila
country = Philippines
dean = Brenda S. Dey
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faculty =
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postgrad =
website = [http://www.ue.edu.ph/manila/dentistry.htm www.ue.edu.ph/manila/dentistry.htm]

The University of the East College of Dentistry was first established as a unit of the Philippine College of Commerce and Business Administration in 1948. The college is one of the pioneers of dental education and labeled as one of the top dental schools in the Philippines.

History

The College of Dentistry was first established as a unit of the Philippine College of Commerce and Business Administration in 1948 and was granted government recognition on July 1, 1950. The Board of Trustees entrusted the deanship of the College to Dr. Casto del Rosario. He was succeeded in 1952 by Dr. Genaro B. Felizardo, an equally able and dedicated educator, having been a faculty member and College Secretary of the UP College of Dentistry.

In July 1964, the College of Dentistry transferred from UE Manila to Quezon City, where it shared the campus with the UE Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center (UERMMMC) College of Medicine, School of Nursing and the UE Research Center. This was a fulfillment of the dream of then President and Chairman Francisco T. Dalupan, Sr. to house the health sciences in one campus.

In 1968, another change in the leadership of the College occurred when Dr. Francisco M. Herbosa assumed the position upon the death of Dr. Felizardo. Dr. Herbosa was the first UE Dental Board topnotcher and a member of class 1950, the first batch of dental graduates of the College. During his term, UE dental graduates began to top the Dentist Licensure Examinations, a remarkable feat which they have done up to the present. Dr. Herbosa also implemented a lot of improvements in the College, such as the expansion of the clinical laboratory and library facilities, faculty and student development programs, as well as curricular upgrading and enrichment.

Upon the retirement of Dr. Herbosa in 1987, Dr. Diampo J. Lim was appointed the fourth Dean of the College. Prior to his assumption of the deanship, Dr. Lim was the Associate Dean and a professor of the College. He has been instrumental in securing the Postgraduate Monbusho Scholarship Grant to Japan for deserving faculty members of the College. He was the first UE recipient and the first Philippine dental graduate who was awarded the said scholarship grant. Under his leadership, the College has established linkages with schools of dentistry of three universities abroad: Aichi-Gakuin University Dental School of Nagoya, Japan; the New York University Dental School in the USA; and the College of Dentistry of the University of Rennes I in France.

In June 1988, to give way to the University’s plan to add new curricular offerings in the UERMMMC College of Medicine and for the College of Dentistry to be able to expand its facilities to keep abreast with new trends and developments in Dental Medicine, a gradual transfer of the College from the Quezon City Campus to the UE Manila Campus was initiated. It started with the freshmen dental proper students enrolled in SY 1988-1989 who started holding classes in the new Dental Build­ing (formerly the Science Building) along Gastambide Street, UE Manila.

The University of the East College of Dentistry ranked No. 1 in among dental schools based on the results of the December 2007 Dentist Licensure Examination released recently by the Professional Regulation Commission’s (PRC) Board of Dentistry. Achieving a passing percentage of 86%. [cite news|title = UE ranks no. 1 in Dentistry|publisher = University of the East| url = http://www.ue.edu.ph/manila/news/?news=20082.html|accessdate = 2008-01-23]

Curricular Offerings

*Doctor of Dental Medicine, DMD

*Associate in Health Science Education (AHSE)

Graduate Program

In keeping with its 60-year-old tradition of excellence in education, the University of the East, College of Dentistry (UECD) in Manila is now offering four master of Science in Dentistry courses to qualified local and foreign students. These special 2-year courses aim to equip dentists with the necessary knowledge and skills to make them at par with the world’s best.

Master of Science in Dentistry Programs

*Periodontics

*Orthodontics

*Prosthodontics

*Endodontics

Foreign Migration

A study published in the Journal of American Dental Association showed that UE College of Dentistry sent the highest number of candidates seeking licensure to practice in the United States between 2002-2005. According to the American Dental Association's Department of Testing Services, a total 169 out of 1270 foreign-trained dentists who took the National Board Dental Examination Part II (U.S. dental licensure exam)were from UE College of Dentistry. [Sweiss, Luciana and Guay, Albert, "Foreign-trained dentists licensed in the United States: Exploring their origins," Journal of American Dental Association (New York: American Dental Association, 2005), Vol 138, No 2, 219-224. [http://jada.ada.org/cgi/content/full/138/2/219?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&andorexacttitle=and&andorexacttitleabs=and&fulltext=foreign+dentists&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT] ]

Outstanding Alumni in Practice of Dentistry

ee also

*University of the East

References

*University of the East http://www.ue.edu.ph
*University of the East College of Dentistry http://www.ue.edu.ph/manila/dentistry.htm

External links

* [http://online.ue.edu.ph University of the East]
* [http://online.ue.edu.ph/manila/dentistry.htm University of the East College of Dentistry]


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