Penang International Dental College (PIDC)

• It’s a boutique college offering only one programme i.e the Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) programme.
• Has trained over 700 dentist, has the largest alumni amongst the private dental schools.
• Ranked 4-Star by Ministry of Higher Educations MyQuest ranking.

Clinic

• Has 75 dental chair hospital for clinical training.
• Provides subsidized treatments to its patients who require subsidy.
• Pre pandemic, used to treat over 25,000 patients per year, making it one of the largest patient treatment clinic in a private dental school.
• The large number of patients creates better training for its students.

Post Pandemic.

• The first dental college to create AGP clinic for treatment of aerosol based procedures, thus creating a safe environment to minimize the spread of Covid-19.
• The AGP Clinic was purpose built using Japanese technology with joint designing by the manufacturer.
• The first private dental school to commence its clinical operation thus continuing and maintain the required treatments for its patients.

Academic

• Had introduced e-learning portal to its students since 2010, thus the move to online based teaching and learning post pandemic was done seamlessly.
• Further improvements were done to the portal to cater for the increased usage.
• The portal is unique as the platform allows for group communications amongst students and lecturers, private communication between individual student and lecturer and private communication between students simultaneously.
• Lectures are uploaded into YouTube making it convenient for students to access lecturers from wherever they are 24/7.