THE BICOL University will soon offer Doctor of Dental Medicine after it received approval from the Commission on Higher Education.

Dr. Hennie Lomibao, admissions dean of the university, said that the tuition for the program will be covered by the Unified Student Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education or UNIFAST.

The DMD curriculum is a six-year program that consists of basic science, clinical science and dental public health courses.

It also consists of six levels (Dentistry I to VI) from General Education in the first year, Basic Medical and Dental Sciences, Pre-Clinical subjects in the next three years, and Clinical Training in the last two years.

BU is the first and only state university in Bicol to offer DMD and the third public Higher Education Institution in the country.

The University of the Philippines-Manila and the West Visayas State University were the other two.