The Faculty of Dentistry, Prince of Songkla University was established on November 10, 1983 after promulgation in the Government Gazette. Its creation was intended to serve the government policy of decentralizing dental service to communities in districts and provinces as well as to reduce the incidence of oral disease in the South.

Vision

To be a quality SMART Dental School for the benefit of mankind by 2022.

Mission

To provide education in dentistry, dental service, research, and academic services that produces alumni and dental services that emphasize holistic patient care and integrated departments and spreads new general knowledge and technology to an excellent service level to achieve patient satisfaction.

Defined Excellence    

  • Undergraduate education – to produce education that passes AUN QA standards > 4
  • Postgraduate education – to produce education that passes AUN QA standards > 4
  • Research service – to produce research that passes the Thailand Research Fund (TRF) evaluation to a level > 4 in the TRF index
  • Professional service – to be the first dental faculty to have a certified dental hospital (HA) that has a patient satisfaction level > 90%
  • Dental service that has a patient satisfaction level > 90%
  • Dental service management to pass the EdPEx standard to a level > 300

Values

D – Development

P – Professionalism

S – Social responsibility

U – Unity

Culture

Our soul is for the benefit of mankind.

Core Competencies

  1. Undergraduate education taught using Competency Based Learning (CBL) and holistic patient care founded upon good morals and ethics in response to the needs of the community.
  2. Postgraduate education taught in an integrated way to practice different dental skills to secondary and tertiary levels based on good foundational morals and ethics.
  3. Create research and innovation that has practical applications and benefit.
  4. Provide tertiary level dental treatment with the latest integrated equipment and specialist personnel.

Goals

  1. Produce dentists with knowledge and ability to international standards who uphold ethics and morals, who are conscious of their professional responsibilities and who seek lifelong learning to respond to the needs of the country.
  2. Postgraduate education of the Faculty of Dentistry is well known domestically and internationally.
  3. To produce research work and innovation beneficial to develop the quality of life and accepted by international publication standards.
  4. To be a dental treatment centre covering all fields of dentistry to certified standards.
  5. To be a source for dental knowledge and academic service which responds to the needs of society.
  6. To be a continual education centre and a place of practice for dental personnel.
  7. To support cooperation with international institutions academically, in research and postgraduate education.
  8. To promote and support students and personnel in the faculty to uphold ethics, Thainess, lifeskills, social consciousness, and the ability to work cross-culturally.
  9. To be an organization of knowledge with a management system that upholds good governance under sufficient economy principles.

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