Abstract:
The Department of Community Dentistry of BUMDC, continued its tradition of yearly organization of a Constructive students’ educational activity and arranged an innovative students’ Documentary Competition on the subject of “Perceptions & Attitude towards Oral Health” amongst the students of 2nd year BDS.  The event took place on Wednesday 28th September 2016, from 11am- 2pm at the Ibn –e- Sina Auditorium of BUMDC. It was conceived by Dr.Kulsoom Fatima Rizvi (H.O.D) who proposed the concept of a students’ activity that was healthy, exciting, and educationally stocked. It encouraged the students’ cognitive functioning, enhanced their creativity skills, presentation abilities and also helped them acknowledge the theoretical knowledge with its implication and impact on the society. All this was put together in the form of Short Documentary films of 10-15 minutes durationand presented before the audience that comprised of entire medical and dental faculty and all the years of MBBS and BDS students.