Department of Preventive and Community medicine
Community Medicine deals with promotion of health and prevention of diseases, involving people’s participation. This subject will help to inculcate a holistic view of health and medical interventions primarily focused on the community. It will enable the learners to acquire knowledge, skills, competencies in primary, secondary and tertiary care, control and prevention of outbreaks/epidemics, community diagnosis, health needs assessment, epidemiological assessment, research and planning evidence-based health policies and programmes. The main purpose of Community Medicine teaching and training is to create a cadre of professionals who are competent to meaningfully contribute their expertise in planning, implementation, co-ordination, monitoring, evaluation of primary health care programmes based on scientific evidence
- Course objectives
- To educate and train the students in various areas related to Community Medicine like clinical epidemiology, epidemiological research, human nutrition, deficiency disorder, prevention and control of deficiency disorders, maternal and child health, health care management, health care services, environmental sanitation and occupational hazards.
- The department is well equipped and possesses necessary facilities to educate the students like various models of houses, toilets, sewage disposal systems, water purifying systems and methods, charts displaying the map of endemic areas, national and international health promotion, disease prevention, microscopes and microscopic slides of various disease-causing microbes, vectors, etc.
- Apart from the class room teaching, students are guided to visit the nearby communities to understand the health problems of community, government and private water purifying systems, different levels of health care systems.
- With all the above facilities and exposure, the students are trained and motivated to look into community and public health as an option of higher studies and career.