{"id":56176,"date":"2024-11-15T16:39:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T11:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=56176"},"modified":"2024-11-15T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T11:39:30","slug":"bds-program-extended-from-four-to-five-year-degree-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/bds-program-extended-from-four-to-five-year-degree-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"BDS program extended from four to &#8216;five-year degree&#8217; in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>LAHORE: The University of Health Sciences (UHS) Board of Studies in Dentistry extended the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pmdc-stops-admissions-in-mbbs-bds-programs-heres-why\/\">BDS<\/a>) program in Punjab from four years to a five-year degree.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken during the 49th meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/mdcat-results-2024-uhs-toppers-names-announced\/\">UHS Board of Studies in Dentistry<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Vice Chancellor Prof Ahsan Waheed Rathore said that the fifth year will be designated as a clerkship year, aimed at providing workforce support to dental colleges. The board meeting also reached a consensus that both public and private dental colleges would not charge fees for the fifth year.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>The Board of Studies in Dentistry also approved a new integrated curriculum for Punjab&#8217;s dental colleges, which will come into effect from the 2024-25 academic session<\/p>\n<p>Vice Chancellor UHS emphasised that faculty training of all affiliated dental colleges for the new curriculum would be completed by December and January.<\/p>\n<article>The meeting was attended by heads of 16 University of Health Sciences (UHS)-affiliated dental colleges.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The University of Health Sciences (UHS) Board of Studies in Dentistry extended the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) program in Punjab from four years to a five-year degree. The decision was taken during the 49th meeting of the UHS Board of Studies in Dentistry on Thursday. Vice Chancellor Prof Ahsan Waheed Rathore said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":56177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[23990,23989,12286],"class_list":["post-56176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-bds-degree","tag-bds-program-punjab","tag-university-of-health-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56179,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56176\/revisions\/56179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}