The Yenepoya Dental Education Unit (YEN-DEU) of Yenepoya Dental College will be able to improvise the skills of dental faculty in the art of teaching. The focus is not only on teaching, but also on developing the complex roles of being mentors, assessors, curriculum designers, facilitators and role models. The Development Interprofessional educational module to impart interprofessional practice and collaboration among dental professional and students is a unique feature of this centre.

• Workshops in dental education and interprofessional education to be conducted -Twice A Year.

• Workshops in specialized areas to be conducted round the year.

• Workshops on Mentoring, Curriculum Planning and MCQ construction for the faculty.

• Internship orientation programmes and other training activities for overall improvement of the interns.

• Personal and professional development for students to improve communication skills, professionalism and ethics in students using existing settings.

• Assessment of competencies, student assessment approaches, standardized patients, instructional design, computer-based education applications, patient simulations, institutional research, clinical decision making, medical informatics, faculty careers, patient education, continuing education, health economics and disease prevention.