Department of Community Medicine
Understanding and addressing health at the population level — prevention, public health and primary care beyond the hospital walls.
Community Medicine looks beyond the individual patient to the population — teaching students to recognise, investigate and respond to health problems at the scale of a village, district or region, exactly the scale PESIMSR itself was built to serve.
Vision
Excellence in public health
To become a centre of excellence in community medicine for teaching, research and service.
Mission
How we get there
- Provide high-quality education to medical students.
- Produce professionally superior and ethically strong public-health specialists.
- Conduct research on health problems to find suitable solutions.
- Improve community health through service, education, communication and inter-sectoral coordination.
Teaching Objectives
What students are expected to master at each stage of training in this department.
Goal
To prepare students to function as effective primary health-care physicians.
Objectives
- Identify and manage common health problems in the community.
- Perform as an effective team leader within India's health-care delivery system, implementing national health programmes.
- Investigate an outbreak or epidemic and take appropriate control measures.
- Conduct basic epidemiological research.
- Identify environmental and occupational hazards, and suggest appropriate preventive measures.
- Be an effective communicator and health educator.
Goal
To prepare competent public-health specialists.
Objectives
- Apply public-health skills to assess health problems, analyse them, and provide solutions.
- Plan, implement and evaluate national health policy and programmes.
- Be a competent teacher and trainer for undergraduate students and health-care workers.
- Investigate public-health threats and emergencies, taking appropriate control measures.
- Conduct ethically sound epidemiological research using appropriate bio-statistical methods.
- Analyse occupational and environmental hazards, and take preventive measures.
- Be an effective community health leader, communicator and health educator.
Other Para-Clinical Departments
Community Medicine is one of five departments bridging basic science and the ward.
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