SDM DENTAL COLLEGE DHARWAD
Facilities

Mess and Cafeteria

Adequate dining facility is available at the “Satvik” Mess for all students. The food expenses are shared equally by all students. A cafeteria, managed by a reputed group of hotels, is located in the Dental Hospital and open from 8.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. on all working days. In addition, a Fast Food joint, a fruit juice centre and a Nescafe Coffee Corner close to the hostels are open till late in the night. A Kiosk situated at the rear side of the library is open till 1.00 a.m. serving coffee and tea.

Sports and Outdoor Games

  1. 200m. track
  2. Football field
  3. Cricket Ground
  4. Volleyball court
  5. Lawn Tennis Court
  6. Tennicoit Court
  7. Throw Ball Court
  8. Basket Ball Court
  9. Kabaddi Court

Indoor Games Facility

  1. Shuttle Badminton
  2. Table Tennis
  3. Pool Table
  4. Multi Gym
  5. Carom
  6. Chess
  7. Separate Dressing Room for Boys & Girls.
  8. Music Room and Club
  9. Attached Physical Director’s Office

Recreation

The indoor sports facility has a Music Room with a variety of instruments — drums set, tabla, kango, guitar (conventional and electric), key board, etc. We also have a trained music teacher who visits every week (on Tuesday) and conducts music classes. From each batch of students, two students have access to the keys of the Music Room and allow its utilisation and safety. Ten to fifteen students use the music facility every day.

Student Services

Every Sunday at 6.00 pm, a movie show is organised in the college auditorium for students. The show is also open to other members of the institution. The college bus is provided to the students once a week to visit Hubli and Dharwad’s market zones for shopping and other personal needs. The students are allowed few hours of shopping before the bus returns to the campus. One of the rooms in the girls hostel has been transformed into a beauty parlour, with beauticians visiting daily.

The Learning Resource Centre (LRC)

The LRC, or Library, is situated on the top floor of the institution, occupying an area of 11,400 sq. ft. area, and aims to provide reading material and services of the highest quality, and imbibe a culture of academic inquiry and lifelong learning. The LRC also supports faculty and postgraduate research, and the creation and use of multimedia teaching aids by students and faculty.

A serene and peaceful ambience is maintained which is ideal for studying. A wide collection of print material is available, and includes Books, Magazines, Periodicals and Scientific Journals, with a special collection of MFDS course / reader's modules and Craniofacial Growth Series. Being completely automated with wireless networking, issuing of library material is done by in-house developed software, which enables centralised access of books and their status of availability.

The college understands the need of a high speed internet as a tool for communication and search for resources to keep in touch with ongoing developments in the scientific arena. Free browsing facility is provided at the browsing centre which gives online access to a variety of journals through J-Gate (Helinet Consortium). The LRC is also WiFi enabled. New books and journals are acquired regularly and a constant update of databases is done. The LRC can seat 350 students at a time.

The LRC also provides the following:

  1. High-speed Internet
  2. Reprographic Facility
  3. Audio visual facility
  4. Medline on CD ROM facility
  5. Inter library load facility
  6. Book bank scheme
  7. HELINET, a consortium of e-resources and access point to e-journals

LRC Working Hours

  1. 07.00 Hrs to 01.00 Hrs on weekdays
  2. 08.00 Hrs to 00.30 Hrs on holidays
  3. 07.00 Hrs to 02.00 Hrs during exams

SPANDANA — The Alumni Association of SDM Dental College & Hospital

The Alumni Association of the institution — Spandana (which means “to get together” in Sanskrit) was formed in 1999, with the support and encouragement of then Principal Prof. C. Bhasker Rao. Prof. Sanjay Ganeshkar (a first batch student of SDMCDS) was nominated as President while Prof. Shrikanth Mallan (a second batch student) was the Hon. Secretary. The first meet of the association was held on March 1999 at the College and was attended by more than 300 alumni. Subsequently, six meets have been organised (it is a biennial event), the last in April 2008. The meet usually invites eminent dentists to deliver lectures in recent trends in dentistry. The Association registered as the Alumni Association of SDM Dental College, Dharwad (R) with the Registrar of Societies of the Government of Karnataka since January 2006, in time for the 6th Alumni congregation at Dharwad in February 2006, which coincided with the 20th year of our college’s existence. The current office-bearers include: Dr. Bhasker Rao (Chairman), Dr. Shakeel Anjum (President), Dr. Lekha (Vice President), Dr. Mahantesh Yeli (Hon. Secretary), Dr. Anand Tavargeri  (Jt. Secretary), and Dr. Priya Horatti (Treasurer).

Tidings: The SDMCDS Newsletter

Since the institution has grown steadily over the years, there was a pressing need to communicate to each other our achievements, milestones reached and any newsworthy event. With this in mind, the institution publishes a bulletin three times a year, named “TIDINGS”. Tidings also serve as a link to our entire alumnus.