The College is an ideal venue for learning. It boasts of complete and up-to-date resources throughout its campus buildings - well ventilated and comfortable classrooms, unflustered library facilities, modern audio-visual services, extensive computing and network facilities, well-equipped laboratories and spacious modern lecture halls and auditoriums. Access to these resources makes time in RCDP a special privilege, although students have not only rights, but responsibilities as well, regarding their use.
To safeguard the integrity of such resources, the College expects its students to use them properly, with utmost care and only as authorized. The College also expects them to respect the rights of others to access the same resources and to observe the rules granting access to, and use of, those resources. The College correspondingly assures the students easy and extensive access to all the facilities and equipment including the necessary assistance for knowledge enhancement.
The college has four main campuses. These are as follows:
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The Olaya Campus, commonly known as the Female Section, is located on Olaya Road in the heart of Riyadh. It houses all the necessary facilities for the pre-medical, dental and pharmaceutical laboratories courses. It has 100 dental units for clinical instructions.
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The Qurtoba Campus, commonly referred to as the Male Section of the College, is located on King Khalid International Airport Road, north-east of Riyadh. Like the Olaya campus, the whole gamut of pre-medical, dental and pharmaceutical laboratories course instruction are also conducted in this campus.
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The East Satellite Campus, housed in the newly constructed building to accommodate Male Clinical Sessions, is located in the East of Riyadh along Dammam Road. This-two-storey teaching and clinical building has 127 dental chairs in the 1st and 2nd floors to comfortably accommodate patients. It is also designed to hold postgraduate lectures, seminars and clinical sessions in the lecture rooms located on the 2nd floor of the building.
Clinic Schedule:
| Saturday to Tuesday: |
09:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon
01:00 P.M. - 04:00 P.M.
04:00 P.M. - 07:00 P.M.
07:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M. |
| Wednesday to Thursday: |
09:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon
01:00 P.M. - 04:00 P.M. |
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The King Fahad Road Campus will be housed in a twin tower building located in King Fahad Road. The seven storey building which is under construction at present, will be operational at the beginning of academic year 2010-2011 [1430-1431H]. It will soon be able to accommodate Male and Female Students with fully digitalized and modernized facilities which are meant to enhance the students learning.
Clinic Schedule:
| Saturday to Thursday: |
09:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon
01:00 P.M. - 04:00 P.M. |
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The heart of the college is its library: the store of knowledge around which its functions are organized. It provides resources and services to support the teaching, learning and research needs of staff and students in the Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy.
A well ventilated secluded place with a seating capacity of 100 persons (Olaya Campus) and 120 persons (Qurtoba Campus) is a superb structure that students find comfort. A conducive place for learning which is equipped with audio-visual systems that clearly delivers a simultaneous lecture and seminar to both male and female students.
In addition, a new, glamorous and theatrical type auditorium designed in the twin tower building can accommodate approximately of 1000 persons. This would be the main venue of the colleges big event in the future.
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