Department of Community Medicine
About Us
The mission of Community medicine is to create a skilled cadre of medical professionals having expertise in application of principles of Public Health, applied epidemiology, contributing meaningfully in formulating National Health Policies & Programmes with a systems approach for overall human development.
OBJECTIVES
Objectives of teaching Community Medicine to MBBS students can be broadly grouped in to the following areas,
To impart knowledge about communicable and non-communicable diseases, emerging and reemerging diseases, their epidemiology, control and prevention.
To describe the working of different levels of health care, Panchayat Raj system, National Health Policies and Programmes
To prepare them to function as community and primary care physicians in the society.
To make the students aware of social, financial, personal, occupational issues of the patients and to inculcate in the students the habit of considering the above aspects while rendering patient care.
To describe the concept of Environmental Health and its various determinants.
To teach the basics of research principles and methodology.
