OVER VIEW
The department of Community Medicine started in the year 1996. The department handled
courses for MBBS and Nursing. The functioning of Urban Health Training Centre (UHTC) &
Rural Health Training Centre (RHTC) are under the control of this department. Several
research projects related to community health have been done by the department in the
past and many are currently in progress.
To be recognized for innovative education, research and clinical care
resulting in better health and healthcare locally and globally.
- To enhance health & primary care for our communities, emphasizing
rural & underserved areas.
- To create and impart knowledge and skill, providing services that
will improve human health and well being.
- To improve the health and health care of current and future
generations through excellence and innovation in education, research
and clinical care.
Values We Cherish
- Excellence and innovation in all aspects of our mandate.
- Leadership - local, regional, national and global
- Integrity, respect and caring as the hallmark of our interactions
- Collaboration, collegiality and teamwork in our approach to
teaching, research and patient care
- Partnership, which underpins the basis of our relationships with
the organizations and communities we serve
- Transparency and public accountability in our decision-making
- Evaluation and continuous improvement of all we do
- Aware of the physical, social, psychological, economic and
environment aspect of health and disease.
- Able to apply the clinical skills to recognise and manage common
health problems including their physical, emotional and social
aspects at the individual and family levels and deal with medical
emergencies at the community level.
- Able to define and manage the health problems of the community he
/ she serves. To achieve this, he / she shall learn to :
Able to organise elementary epidemiological studies to assess the
health problems in the area. For this he should be able to design a
study, collect data, analyse it with statistical tests, make a
report and be able to participate in a health information system.
- Prioritise the most important problems and help formulate a plan
of action to manage them under National Health Programme guidelines
including population control and family welfare programme. He should
be able to assess and allocate resources, implement and evaluate the
programmes.
- Demonstrate knowledge of principles of organising prevention and
control of communicable and non-communicable diseases.
- Organise health care services for special groups like mothers,
infants, under-five children and school children.
- Organise health care in case of calamities.
- Able to work as an effective member of the health team.
- Able to coordinate with and supervise other members of the health
team and maintain liaison with other agencies.
- Able to plan and implement health education programmes. Able to
perform administrative functions of health centres.
- Able to promote community participation especially in areas of
disease control, health education and implementation of national
programmes.
- Aware of the national priorities and the goals to be achieved to
implement primary health care.
