Lahore, February 14, 2022 (PPI-OT):Moral development is a growth of the character and like all growths, it takes place according to a pre-determined sequence. It is an aspect of a person’s overall development that follows over the course of a life time. Morals are attitudes and behaviours that are generally prized by a society in which one lives; it is the understanding and beliefs about right and wrong.
The Department of Preventive and Dental Public Health at the University College of Dentistry, UOL, recently organized a series of workshops on “Moral development among young dental professionals”.
The six-week workshop sessions with house officers in groups of 10 to 15 each. The initial presentations were given by Dr. Ahmed Bilal (Demonstrator, Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry) and Dr. Naiha Muzammil (Demonstrator, Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry) who enlightened the house officers with principles of morality and basic understanding of moral values among dental professionals.
The idea behind conducting the workshop was to identify the perceptions of ethics attitudes, morals and behaviours among dental graduates. The training of dental graduates is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon and the ability to be trained beyond personal interests is influenced by personality of the dental graduates’ social values, morality and ethics.
Dr. Wajiha Alamgir (Associate Professor and Head of Department Oral Pathology and Oral Diagnostics) further enlightened about the moral development among dental graduates and emphasized that it is the responsibility of the educational system to focus not only on shaping the dental students into skilled professionals but also to make them think beyond their self-benefits. Her talk concentrated on the importance of ethics and its dire need in being health professionals.
“Moral development is an appreciation of each individual’s particular characteristics and behaviour and must be introduced into the ethical aspect of professional training”. “This provides autonomous thought that contributes to professional performance consistent with the development of a democratic and pluralistic society”, she further added.
Dr. Arooj ul Hassan (Head of Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry) being the main facilitator for the workshops gave concluding remarks and apprised the fresh graduates as tomorrow’s Dentists who are responsible for their patient’s health and lack of ethics and morality may affect their academic knowledge and clinical skills.
Prof. Dr. Riaz Ahmed Warraich (Principal, UCD) lauded and appreciated the Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry for taking this much needed step of discussing ethics and moral development with young Dentists to guide them on the right path of ethical dental practice. Certificates were distributed amongst the participants at each session by the senior faculty members present.
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