Overview
The Department is actively involved in innovative strategies to make students understand the various components of Community medicine and its importance. While seminars, symposia, journal clubs, lectures and group discussions are a regular feature of the department, the department involves actively in innovative strategies such as projects for all undergraduate students and interns encouraging them to become Researchers in the future. The Department also conducts periodic seminars with renowned guest speakers for the benefit of students in current topics. The department has a list of outreach activities to reach the community needs. The Department is fashioning and gearing itself, knowing that the future of healthy India lies in the making of quality community Physicians.
Vision
To be recognized as model department of community medicine as center for community health education and prevention of disease through excellence in medical education, research and health care.
Mission
The community medicine department is committed to educating medical undergraduates, postgraduates and other health professionals to be community responsive primary care physicians who meet the health care needs of the community and the country responsive to socio-demographic issues using scientific and evidence based approach.
FACILITIES AND SERVICES
  • Museum with charts, diagrams, models, specimens & catalogues related to health education, sanitation, nutritional disorders, family planning, epidemiology etc.
  • Departmental, Research, Student Laboratories
  • Departmental library
  • Participation in national health programmers e.g. Pulse Polio Programmed, organization of Important Health Days, Community Health Education & Research.
TEACHING/TRAINING ACTIVITIES
Training and teaching in community medicine is aimed to prepare undergraduate students to function as competent public health specialists with capabilities to function as leader of health group, provide health care at primary, secondary and tertiary level. The curriculum of community medicine is developed in pursuance of recommendations of MCI and the training commences from first MBBS Course and continues till third MBBS Part I. The teaching/ training activities of community medicine includes didactic lectures, demonstrations, tutorials, Case presentation & discussion integrated Seminar , Institutional clinical meeting, laboratory sessions in Public Health chemistry, Microbiology, Entomology, field visits, family surveys and out-reach health care training at urban, rural and primary health centers.
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