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Community Medicine

Community Medicine

Overview

     Training of Community Medicine will be undertaken during pre clinical (Phase I), para clinical (Phase II) and Clinical (Phase III). It will be from I & II (Phase I), III & IV (phase II) and VI and VII semesters in (phase III).

Goal: The broad goal of the teaching of undergraduate students in Community Medicine is to prepare them to function as community and first level physicians in accordance with the institutional goals.

Objectives: During the training, students should acquire knowledge and skills so that he can practice the community medicine after the graduation. After the completion of training, student will acquire the following knowledge and skills


  • KNOWLEDGE 
    The student shall be able to:
    1. Explain the principles of sociology including demographic population dynamics;
    2. Identify social factors related to health, disease and disability in the context of urban and rural societies;
    3. Appreciate the impact of urbanization on health and disease;
    4. Observe and interpret the dynamics of community behaviour;
    5. Describe the elements of normal psychology and social psychology;
    6. Observe the principles of practice of medicine in hospital and community setting;
    7. Describe the health care delivery system including rehabilitation of the disabled in the country;
    8. Describe the National Health Programmes with particular emphasis on maternal and child health programs, family welfare planning and population control.
    9. List epidemiological methods and describe their application to communicable and non-communicable diseases in the community or hospital situation.
    10. apply biostatistical methods and techniques;
    11. Outline the demographic pattern of the country and appreciate the roles of the individual, family, community and socio-cultural milieu in health and disease.
    12. Describe the health information systems.
    13. Enunciate the principles and components of primary health care and the national health policies to achieve the goal of 'Health for All'.
    14. Identify the environmental and occupational hazards and their control.
    15. describe the importance of water and sanitation in human health
    16. To understand the principles of health economics, health administration, health education in relation to community.

  • SKILLS 
    At the end of the course, the student should be able to make use of:
    1. Principles of practice of medicine in hospital and community settings and familiarization with elementary nursing practices
    2. Art of communication with patients including history taking and medico-social work
    3. Use epidemiology as a scientific tool to make rational decisions relevant to community and individual patient intervention
    4. Collect, analyse, interpret and present simple community and hospital based data
    5. Diagnose and manage common health problems and emergencies at the individual, family and community levels keeping in mind the existing health care resources and in the context of the prevailing socio-cultural beliefs.
    6. Diagnose and manage maternal and child health problems and advise a couple and the community on the family planning methods available in the context of the national priorities.
    7. Diagnose and manage common nutritional problems at the individual and community level.
    8. Plan, implement and evaluate a health education programme with the skill to use simple audio-visual aids.
    9. Interact with other members of the health care team and participate in the organization of health care services and implementations of national health programmes.

  • Integration 
    Time to time as and when required there is integrated teaching for overall knowledge and skill development for particular area.

Teaching of community medicine should be both theoretical as well as practical. The practical aspects of the training programme should include visits to the health establishments and to the community where health intervention programmes are in operation.

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT MESSAGE 

Department shall try to their best to fulfil stated goals and objectives. Apart from these development will try to overall development of students with due care like solving personal problems , tender care and active watch on their behaviour.

FACILITIES IN THE DEPARTMENT: All Facilities as per MCI norms


Facilities

Facilities of Community Medicine

SN.

No.

Title of the Book

Author

Edition/Year

Publishing House

Quantity

1.       

Text Book Of Preventive & Social Medicine

K. Park

21st

M/s Banarsidas Bhanot

1

2.       

Community medicine preventive and social medicine

Sunder lal, Adarsh, Pankaj

3rd

CBS Publishier

4

3.       

Text Book of community medicine

Rajvir Bhalwar

2013 &7th

United India Periodicals Pvt. Ltd.

3

4.       

Text Book of Preventive and social medicine

M.C.Gupta ,B.k. mahajan

3rd

Jaypee Brothers

2

5.       

Community Medicine with recent advance

A H suryakantha

2nd  & 3rd

Jaypee Brothers

2

6.       

Community  Medicine With Recent Advance

A H Suryakanta

4th  &&7th

Jaypee Brothers

5


7.       

A Review of Preventive and Social Medicine

C. K. Lahariya

1st

Jaypee Brothers

2

8.       

Review Of Preventive & Social Medicine

( Including Biostatistics )

Vivek  Jain

6th

Jaypee Brothers

 

1

9.       

Oxford Text Book Of Public Health

RogerDetels james McEwen, Robert Beagkehole & Heizo Tanaka

5th

Oxford University

 

1

10.   

A Dictionary Of public health

J.Kishore

2002

Century

1

11.   

Dictionary of Public health Promotion and Education

Teri S Tamayose

2nd

Jossey- BASS

1

12.   

Evidence Based Public Health

Ross C Brownson

2nd

Oxford University

1

13.   

Epidemiology

Leon Gordis Saunders

4th

Saunders Elsevier

2

14.   

Basic Epidemiology

R beaglehole, Rbonita, kjellstrom

1st

WHO

1

15.   

Modern infectious diseases epidemiology

John Giesecke

1994

Edward Arnold

1

16.   

An epidemiologic Approach to Reproductive Health

CDC

2nd

WHO

1

17.   

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Bryan Kestenbaum

1st

Springer

1

18.   

Mastering Practical’s  community medicine

Poornima Tiwari, Shashank Tiwari

1st

Wolters Kiuwer New Delhi, India

2

19.   

Multiple choice question in preventive & social medicine

GPI Singh, Sarit Sharma

2012

Elsevier

1

20.   

MCQ In PSM

Dr.Niraj B.Pandit

18th

Arihant Book House

1

21.   

National Health Programme

J. Kishore

7th, 9th &10th

Century Publication

5

22.   

A Treatise on Fluorosis

A.k.susheela

2nd

Fluorosis Research and Rural Development Foundation

1

23.   

Toman’s Tuberculosis

W.H.O. (Geneva 2004)

2nd

WHO

1

24.   

Tuberculosis Care Diagnosis Treatment Public Health

(TBCTA) W.H.O

2006

WHO

1

25.   

Infection Control Hospital and Community

Claire Mercier

1997

Stanley Thornes Ltd.

1

26.   

Nutrition & Health

Jain S.

1st

ALFA

1

27.   

Nutritive Value of Indian Foods

C.Gopalan, B. V.RamaSastri

1996

National Institute of Nutrition Hydarabad

1

28.   

Nutritive Value of Indian Food

Rama Sastri

1st

ICMR

2

29.   

Nutrition Care

Mosby

3rd

DNLM/ DLC, ISBN

1

30.   

Child Nutrition

Umesh Prasad

1st

Sonali Publications

1

31.   

Innovation in Maternal Health Case Studies from India

Jay K.Satia,Madhavi Misra, Radhika Arora,Sourav Neogi

1st

SAGE

1

32.   

Midwifery & maternal Health in India

LeelaVisari

1st

IIM, Ahmedabad

2

33.   

Hand Book on PNDT ACT. 1994

WHO

1994

UNFPA

1

34.   

Achieving Universal coverage of  Health Care

Sangum Nitayarumphong

2005

NHSO

1

35.   

Struggling along the path to universal health care for all

Sangum Nitayarumphong

2006

NHSO

1

36.   

What is talked about less in health  care reforms

Sangum Nitayarumphong

2005

NHSO

1

37.   

Health care financing in developing nations

William hsiao

2000

Harvard College

1

38.   

Health financing revisited-A practioner’s guide

Pablo gorret

2006

The World Bank Washington

 

1

39.   

Principles of Hospital Administrative & Planning

Sakharkar

2nd

Jaypee Brothers

1

40.   

Principles of Medical Education

Singh T.

3rd

Jaypee Brothers

1

41.   

Understanding Medical Education

Tim Swanwick

1st

ASME

1

42.   

Natural remedies for health & well being

Enrique Garza

6th

Enrique Garza-     “ Orvit”

1

43.   

Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine

LONGO

18th

Mc Graw Hill Medical- ISBN

1

44.   

 

AP.I text Book of Medicine

 

Late Shantilal J. Shah G. S. Sainani

4th

Association of Physicinans of India, Bombay

2

45.   

Textbook of Medicine

Y P Munjal

9th

Jaypee Brothers

1

46.   

A Short Text book of Psychiatry

Dr. Niraj Ahuja, Dr.S.Ahuja

1st

Jaypee Brothers

1

47.   

Ess.Of Health Behaviour

Edberg M.

1st

Jones & Bartlett

1

48.   

Textbook of Microbiology

Ananthanarayan

8th

Universities Press

1

49.   

Text book of Microbiology

R. Anantha narayan C.K.Jayaran Raniker

1st

Orient Longman

2

50.   

Medical Parasitology

Ichhpujani PL

3rd

Jaypee Brothers

1

51.   

The Short Textbook of Pediatrics

Suraj Gupte

11th

Jaypee Brothers

1

52.   

The Normal Child

Ronald

10th

Elsevier

1

53.   

Pediatrics  Clinical Examination

Kumar S.

3rd

Paras Medical Hybrabad

1

54.   

Textbook of Obstetrics

D C Dutta

7th

New Central Book Agency Pri. Ltd. London

1

55.   

Textbook of  Gynecology

D C Dutta

5th

New Central Book Agency Pri. Ltd. London

1

56.   

Harpers illustrated Biochemistry

Murray

28th

Tata Mcgraw Hill Education Pri. Ltd.

1

57.   

Essentials of Medical Pharmacology

K D Tripathi

6th

JPBMP

1

58.   

Statistics Of Medical students

B. B. Mukhopadhyay

2nd

Jaypee Brothers

2

59.   

Medical Statistics& Demo made easy

Devasish Sharma

2nd

Jaypee Brothers

2

60.   

Methods in Biostatistics

Mahajan

7th

Jaypee Brothers

1

61.   

Essential of Biostatistics

Nishi Aggarawal

1st

Peepee

1

62.   

Primer of Biostatistics

Glantz

7th

Mc Graw Hill- ISBN

1

63.   

Fundamentals of Biostatistics

Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam

1st

Jaypee Brothers

1

64.   

Teaching Health Statistics

S.K. Lwanga

2nd

WHO

1

65.   

Epidemiology

Leon Gordis

2nd

Elsevier

1

66.   

Epidemiology

Leon Gordis

3rd

Elsevier

1

67.   

Social science Methods for Research on reproductive health

Oonacambell,johncleland

1999

WHO

1

68.   

A Practical Guide for Health Researchers

WHO

2nd

WHO

1

69.   

Health Research Methodology

WHO

2nd

WHO

2

70.   

Handbook of preventive & social medicine

S C Basu

2nd

Current

1

71.   

Manson’s tropical diseases (23rd edition )

Elsevier/ Farrar

23rd

Elsevier

1

72.   

Infectious disease epidemiology- 3rd edition

Karnad E Nelson

3rd

ALPHA press

1

73.   

Statistical methods in medical research-4th edi.

Armitage

4th

Blackwell

1

74.   

Statistics at square one-11th edi.

M J Campbell

11th

WILEY-BLACKWELL

1

75.   

Biostatistics – The bare essentials- 2nd edi.

Norman – Streiner

2nd

BC Decker

1

76.   

Biostatistics at square two- 2nd edi.

Cambell

2nd

BLACKWELL

1

77.   

Handbook of biosurveillance

M M Wagner

-

ACADEMIC PRESS

1

78.   

Essential of health care finance- 7th edition

William O Cleverley

7th

JONES & BARTLETT Lerning

1

79.   

Textbook of community medicine

Bhaskara Rao Thirunavali usha Rani

3rd

Paras Medical

2

80.   

Practicals in community medicine

A.T.Kulkarni

-

-

1

81.   

PSM and Biostatistics

Deepak mishra

2nd

The Arora Medical Book

1

82.   

Ward procedures

Mansukh patel

4th

Elsevier

2

83.   

mcqs in psm

Arun yadav

3rd

Jaypee

1

84.   

Community medicine  question bank

J kishore

 

Century

1

85.   

Aam logon ke liye dawayion ki kitaab

Eklavya

 

Locast Standard Therapeutics

2

86.   

Jyaan doctor na hoy

Kiran Singloth

 

Locast

1

87.   

Manual of biostatistics and epidemilogy practicals

Dr.Nirmal Luwang

 

Current books international

1

88.   

ECG in practice

John hampton

5th

Churchill livingstone

1

89.   

Sociology for health professionals

Niraj pandit

2nd

Wolters Kluwer

1

90.   

Practical aspects of pediatrics

Dr.mayoor chheda

3rd

Bhalani book depot

1

991

Essentials of newborn care

 

2006

Dept of h&fw, Gujarat

1

992

Textbook of practical medicine

Dr. G G Oza

1998

 

1

993

Review of pg entrance examination

Dr.Salgunan

6th

Medical publication

1

994

Textbook of clinical medicine

Dr.G G Oza

1996

 

1

995

Matind monograph

Kranti suresh vora

 

Indian institute of public health, Gandhinagar

2

996

General practice

Ghanshyam Vaidya

3rd

Bhalani

1

997

A primer of health systems economics

V Raman kutty

 

Allied

1

998

Practical medicine

P M Mehta

14th

1999

1

999

Essential pediatrics

O P Ghai

5th

 

1

1100

Park text book of psm

K park

 

 

1

1102

Reading material statistics

Dr.p b verma

 

 

1

1103

Parasitology

K D Chatterjee

12th

1980

1

1104

Clinical cases in obgy

H U Doshi

 

Arihant

1

1105

Companion for obgy practical exams

H U Doshi

 

Arihant

1

1106

Textbook community medicine

Rajvir  Bhalwar

5th

Wolters kluver

4

1107

IAPSM’s textbook of community medicine

A M Kadri

1st & 2nd

Jaypee brothers

3

1108

Mastering community medicine

Poornima Tiwari & Shashank Tiwari

3rd

Wolters kluver

1

1109

Practical PSM

Surendra S. Shastri, Kirti C. Patel & Nitin M. Rathod

5th

National

1

1110

Update on Tropical Fever

Dr. Ashish Bhalla

-

Association of Physicians of India

1

1111

Community Medicine Practical Guide and Logbook

Kusum Lata Gaur, Suresh C Soni & Rajeev Yadav

-

CBS Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd

1

 

Total

 

 

 

144

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Community Department Models list

 

S. No.

NAME OF MODELS

1

Pit latrine (dug well latrine)

2

Domestic disposal by household septic tank

3

Sanitary well

4

Bore hole latrine

5

Soakage pit

6

Anopheles mosquito

7

Culex mosquito

8

Aedesaegypti

9

Body louse

10

Ticks

11

Mite

12

Water flea cyclopes-leukarti

13

Rat flea

14

Ticks- hard &soft, life cycle

 

 

Department Charts/Exhibits list

 

Sr. No.

NAME OF CHART

Quantity

1

Typhoid (Paratyphoid fever)

1

2

Acute infectious diarrhea

1

3

Amoebiasis (Entamoeba) (Histolytica)

1

4

Ascariasislumbericoids (Round Warm)

1

5

Acylostomaduodenale

1

6

Measles

1

7

Influenza

1

8

Poliomyelitis

1

9

Dengue syndrome

1

10

Malaria

1

11

Rabies

1

12

Leprosy

1

13

Acute respiratory infection

1

14

Tuberculosis part 1 & 2

1

15

Growth development of infant (birth to 1 yr.) part 1 &  2

1

16

Understanding hyper tension

1

17

Anemia

1

18

Understanding diabetes type 1

1

19

Immunization schedule

1

20

Normal height &weight  Indian

1

21

Hospital waste management part 1 & 2

1

22

Life cycle of mosquito

2

23

Life cycle of house fly

1

24

Family Planning methods

1

25

Sexually transmitted diseases

1

 

CHARTS ON NUTRITION

 

26

Keys to healthy eating

1

27

calories values of common foods

1

28

Food values of principal Indian types

1

29

Recommended dietary allowances

1

30

Balance diets &recipes for preschool child (1-3yr>4-6yr)

1

31

Balance diets for child a Adolescents(7-18yr)

1

32

Balance diets for adults

1

33

Balance diets for normal pregnant & lactating women(part 1 & 2)

1

34

Diet chart for Hypertensive/ Diabetic patient

2

35

Photographs of Vitamin A deficiencies

1

36

CHARTS ON ENTOMOLOGY

 

37

Life cycle of flea

1

38

Life cycle of  louse

1

39

Life cycle of  Mite

1

40

Life cycle of  Ticks

1

41

Census

2

42

NFHS-III

1

43

National and International days related to health

1

44

List of Worlds health day theme

1

45

Outbreak investigation

2

46

Break point chlorination

1

47

R.O. Purification Technology

1

48

Incubation Period

1

49

National History Of Communicable Diseases

1

50

National History Of Non-Communicable Diseases

1

51

Verbal autopsy

1

52

International classification  of diseases

1

53

Types of Contraception

1

54

Feeding recommendations for children

1

55

Recipes of local complementary foods

1

56

IMNCI breast feeding

1

57

RCH- Feeding for children

1

58

Growth Chart

1

59

Feeding, playing and communicating with children (0-6 months)

1

60

Feeding, playing and communicating with children (6-12 months)

1

61

Feeding, playing and communicating with children (12-24months)

1

62

WHO pandemic Phase

1

63

Pandemic Influenza Phase

1

64

 Hippocrates Oath

1

65

Scientist- Robert Koch

1

66

Scientist- John snow

1

67

Scientist- Edward Jenner

1

68

Scientist- Ronald Ross

1

69

Scientist-Edwin Chadwik

1

70

Scientist- Joseph William Bhore

1

71

Scientist-LemuelShatfuck

1

72

Scientist-William Farr

1

73

Scientist- John Simon

1

74

Scientist- James Lind

1

 

 

Details of Field Services provided bythe department of Community Medicine

A)    Detailsof UHTC and RHTC run under Department of Community Medicine

No.

Particulars

RHTC

UHTC

1.               

Location (Name of Place)

RHTC, Rupal

UHTC Sector-24

2.               

Distance from the institution

17 KM

3.0 KM

3.               

Population covered by each center

13768

2500

4.               

Ownership (whether fully owned by institution)

Gov. Gujarat

Owned by GMC

5.               

Administrative & financial control with Dean or not

Partial

 

Partial

6.               

Transport available or not

Yes

1 Bus

1Bolero

Yes

1 Bus

1Bolero

7.               

Residential or non-Residential

Yes

No

8.               

Hostel for interns available or not

Yes

No

9.               

Number of Indoor beds

6

8

10.           

Mess faculty available or not

Yes

No

11.           

Average Daily OPD attendance

70-80

80-90

12.           

Average daily Bed Occupancy

4-5

4

13.           

Average Monthly Deliveries

1-2

0

14.           

Arrange for immunization (Daily or otherwise)

Every Monday at center & Wednesday in field

Every Monday at center & Wednesday in field

15.           

Storage of vaccines: On site or transported from institution

onsite

onsite

16.           

Equipment available

Available

Available

 

B)    Detailsof adolescent friendly Health clinic

No.

Particulars

AFHC

17.           

Location (Name of Place)

Room no 11, OPD Building, GMERS Medical College, Gandhinagar

18.           

Average Daily OPD attendance

10-12

19.           

Services provided

-OPD,

-counselling of adolescent regarding adolescent health problems

-Training of adolescent regarding adolescent health problems

 

 


Infrastructure & Facilities

Infrastructure & Facilities

Infrastructure

 

 

 

InfrastructureDetails:

Department ofCommunity Medicine

Department:

(i)   DemonstrationRoom:

a)  Number - 2

b)  Accommodation(of each demonstration room):-

1) Size - 60 sq.mt. Each

2) Capacity - 75

c)  Audio-visual equipment available. –LCD and OHP available

 

      (ii) Laboratory

a)  Accommodation:-

1) Size - 280 sq.mt

2)  Capacity- 75

b)  Workingarrangement:-

1) Seats available – 75

2)  Water supply –available

3) Sinks            -available

4) Electric points – available

5)  Cupboard forstorage of microscope, slides etc – Available

c)  Number ofMicroscopes: - 40 Dissecting microscope, 3binocular microscope      

d)  WhetherLaboratory Manuals kept by students?  - Will be provided as and whenrequired

e)     Close circuit TV/any other teaching aids – OHP

 

                (iii) Museum:

a)  Size - 150sq. meters

b)  How arethe specimens arranged - Specimens arranged theme wise

c)  GiveNumber of each     -   6Racks, 10Display cabinet, 6tables 

d)  Coverageof various fields in Community Medicine by charts, Models etc

e)   No.of catalogues of the specimens available to the students. -20

f)  Seatingarrangement for students

                1) Type -Stool

2) Number- 30

 

                (IV) Departmental Library-cum-Seminar Room:

a)  Is there aseparate departmental library? - Yes

b) Accommodation:-

1) Size - 30 sq.mt

2) Capacity- 25

 

(V) Number of Books in Community Medicine and alliedsubjects – 144

 

 

(VI) ResearchLaboratory            : 1

Size - 60 sq.mt

Capacity- 75 students

 

          (VI)OFFICEACCOMMODATION: Available

a)     Professor andHOD:                                        18 sq.mt, 1 room

b)     AssociateProfessors/Readers:                         15 sq.mt –two rooms

c)     Asst.Professors/Lecturers:                              12sq.mt -1 room

d)     Statistician-cum-Lecturer:                               12 sq.mt -1 room

e)     Epidemiologist-cum-Lecturer:                        12 sq.mt -1 room

f)      Tutors/Demonstrators/Sr.Residents:               60 sq.mt -1 room

g)     Departmental Office-cum-Clericalroom:         12 sq.mt -1 room

h)     Non-teachingstaff:                                         12 sq.mt -1 room

 


Staff Information

Sr No Name Designation
1 Dr. Jignesh Mukundray Chauhan Professor & Head View
2 Dr. NileshThakor Professor ( H.G ) View
3 Dr. Mallika Chavada Professor ( H.G ) View
4 Dr. Gauravkumar J. Desai Associate Professor View
5 Dr. Jagrutiben Dineshkumar Prajapati Assistant Professor View
6 Dr.Kavita Maulik Banker Assistant Professor View
7 Dr. TANVI PANKAJ VYAS Assistant Professor View
8 Dr. Ripal Nandlal Panchal Assistant Professor View
9 Dr.Ashadevi Hadamatsinh Sisodiya Assistant Professor View
10 Mr. Jignesh L. Garsondiya Assistant Professor View
11 Dr Chiranjeev Digvijaysinh Vaghela Tutor View
12 Dr Neha Patel Tutor View
13 Dr Dhara Jayantibhai Prajapati Tutor View
14 Dr Vishal Govindbhai Vagadiya Tutor View
15 Dr Dhara Rajeshkumar Chaudhari Senior Resident View

Staff Attendance

Sr No Staff Attendance Month Short Desc Posted Date
1 Daily Attendance Please visit the site for Attendance 30/12/2016 View

Subject Curriculum

community Medicine Curriculum

Community Medicine Curriculum

As per CBME

Training of CommunityMedicine will be undertaken during pre-clinical (Phase I), para clinical (PhaseII and Clinical (Phase III (Part –I)).

Goal: The broadgoal of the teaching ofundergraduate students in Community Medicine is to prepare them to function ascommunity and first level physicians in accordancewith the institutional goals.

Objectives: During the training, students shouldacquire knowledge and skills so that he    can practice thecommunity medicine after the graduation.

After the completion oftraining, student will acquire the following knowledge and skills

(a) KNOWLEDGE

The student shall beable to:

1. Explain the principles of sociology includingdemographic population dynamics;

2. Identify social factors related to health,disease and disability in thecontext of urban and rural societies;

3. Appreciate the impact of urbanization onhealth and disease;

4. Observe and interpret the dynamics of communitybehavior;

5. Describe the elements of normal psychologyand social psychology;

6. Observe the principles of practice ofmedicine in hospital and community setting;

7.Describe the health care delivery systemincluding rehabilitation of the disabled in the country;

8.  Describe the NationalHealth Programmes with particular emphasis on maternal and child healthprograms, family welfare planning and population control.

9.  List epidemiologicalmethods and describe their application to communicable and non-communicablediseases in the community or hospital situation.

10.   Apply bio statistical methods and techniques;

11. Outline the demographic pattern of the country and appreciate theroles of the individual, family, community andsocio-cultural milieu in healthand disease.

12.    Describe the health information systems.

13.   Enunciate the principles and components of primary health care andthe national health policies to achieve the goal of ‘Health for All'.

14.   Identify the environmental and occupational hazards and theircontrol.

15.   Describe the importance of water and sanitation in human health

16.  To understand the principles of health economics, healthadministration, health education in relation to community.

(b).SKILLS

Atthe end of the course, the student should beable to make use of:

1.     Principles of practice of medicine in hospitaland community settings and familiarization with elementary nursing practices

2.     Art of communication with patients includinghistory taking and medico-social work

3.     Use epidemiology as scientific tool to makerational decisions relevant to community and individual patient intervention

4.     Collect, analyses, interpret and present simplecommunity and hospital based data

5.     Diagnose and manage common health problems andemergencies at the individual, family and community levels keeping in mind theexisting health care resources and in the context of the prevailingsocio-cultural beliefs.

6.     Diagnose and manage maternal and child healthproblems and advise a couple and the community on the family planning methodsavailable in the context of the national priorities.

7.     Diagnose and manage common nutritional problemsat the individual and community level.

8.     Plan, implement and evaluate a health education programmewith the skill to use simple audio-visual aids.

9.     Interact with other members of the health careteam and participate in the organization of healthcare services andimplementations of national health programmes.

Teaching of communitymedicine should be both theoretical as well as practical. The practical aspectsof the training programme should include visits to the health establishmentsand to the community where health intervention programmes are in

operation.

 

Theory

 

Practical

Family Adoption Programme (FAP)

AETCOM

 

 

Phase

Lectures (hours)

 SGT

 (Tutorials / Seminars/ Integrated Learning)
(hours)

SDL (hours)

Pandemic Module (hours)

Clinical Posting

FAP(hours)

AETCOM (hours)

Visit (hours)

Total (hours)

Foundation course

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

8

08

Phase I

20

20

-

-

-

27

-

-

67

Phase II

15

-

10

12

60 hours (4 weeks X 5 days a week) (20 days x 3hr/day)

30

-

-

127

 Phase III

55

70

20

18

60 hours (4 weeks X 5 days a week) (20 days x 3hr/day)

21 +  10 (SDL)

5   + 3(SDL)

-

262

Total  (hours)

90

90

30

32

120

88

8

8

464

Attendance

75%

80 %

80 %

75%

75%

Elective if students elected a module of Community Medicine

Block 1- 15 days (Research)

Minimum 75 % attendance to appear in University Exam of third part II

Block 2- 15 days (Rural PHC Posting, Urban PHC posting )

 

 

 

 

  Pandemic Module

 

As per latest NMC BOG guidelines addedhours formanagement of pandemics in UG course (80 hours’ module) of whichCommunityMedicine (32 hours) will cover following topics phase wise:

 

Sr. No

Pandemic Module 

(Seminars, Tutorials, Projects, Quizzes, Group discussions etc.)

Module

Period

1

History of outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics

F.1

Foundation course

2

Emerging and reemerging infections, early identification and control of new infections

2.2

Phase II

3

Vaccination strategies including vaccine development& implementation

2.4

Phase II

4

Outbreak management including quarantine, isolation, contact tracing

3.1

Phase III

5

Interdisciplinary collaboration, principles of public health administration, health economics, international health

3.2

Phase III

6

Operational research, field work, surveillance

3.3

Phase III

7

Epidemiology and research Components

 

Elective

 

          InternalAssessment          

1.    Number of exams to be conducted for theinternal assessment

Phase

Internal Exam

Theory

Practical

Community posting

First MBBS

First Internal

SAQ and MCQs (50 Marks)

-

-

Second MBBS

Second Internal

 (First  Phase)

SAQ and MCQs (50 Marks)

-

CP -1 term ending exam

 (50 Marks)

Third internal (Second Phase)

Paper-1 (50 marks)

 

 

Third MBBS –Part  I

Fourth Internal

Paper-1 -SAQ and MCQ (100 Marks)

100 Marks

CP -2 term ending exam

(50 Marks)

Paper-2  (100 Marks )

Prelim

Paper-1  (100 Marks)

100 Marks

Paper-2 (100 Marks )

 

2.    Guidelines for internal Marks

 

Theory Marks

Practical Marks

Internal Examination

30 (Fourth internal -Third MBBS-Part -1)

30

Preliminary Examination

30

30

Formative Evaluation

40

40

(a) Periodic /System Ending

10 marks—First internal

(b) Periodic/System ending

20 marks—Second & third internal

(c) Attendance-  10 marks

(a) Journal and Logbook (SDL,             AETCOM)—10 marks

(b) Practical Exam - 20 marks (CPI and II)

(c) Attendance -  10 marks

Total

100

100

 


Monthly Teaching Schedule

Sr No Teaching Schedule Month Teaching Schedule Short Description Teaching Schedule Date
1 November-2016 Proposed Schedule of Teaching Nov,16 19/12/2016 View
2 Achieved Teaching Learning Dec 2016 Achieved Teaching Learning Dec-2016 06/01/2017 View
3 January-2017 Proposed Teaching Schedule Batch-Sem-4-Jan-2017 06/01/2017 View
4 January-2017 Proposed Teaching Schedule Sem-6-Jan-2017 06/01/2017 View
5 Feb- April, 2022 Proposed teaching schedule 18/03/2022 View

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Publication

Sr No Publication Title Publication Short Desc Posted Date
1 Dr.JigneshChauhan 25/07/2024 Download
2 Dr.Nilesh Thakor 25/07/2024 Download
3 Dr.Mallika Vasantbhai Chavada 25/07/2024 Download
4 Dr.GauravDesai 25/07/2024 Download
5 Dr.JagrutiPrajapati 25/07/2024 Download
6 Dr.Kavita Banker 25/07/2024 Download
7 Dr.DharaPrajapati 25/07/2024 Download
8 Dr.VishalVagadiya 25/07/2024 Download
9 Dr.NehaBavarva 25/07/2024 Download

Achievements

Achievements

Achievements

-       Departmentof Community Medicine received letter of permission for starting of MDCommunity Medicine with intake of 9 students per year from NMC,New Delhi

-       Certificateof Appreciation received from IIPH Gandhinagar for successfully conducting CCCHcourse.

 


Events

Sr No Events Year Events List
1 2022

Sr. No.

Name of Event

 Date

1

State level training of trainers for vaccine and cold chain handlers

01/ 09/2016 to 03/09/2016

2

TOT on MAA programme

18/ 12 /2017 to 21/12/2017

3

Training on F- SAM of faculties

28/ 05 /2019 to 30/05/2019

4

Training on effective vaccine management

16/ 01 /2020 to 20/01/2020

5

Covid 19 3rd wave ICU ventilator care Training

1st batch- 03 / 01 /2022 to 08/01/2022 2nd batch - 17/ 01 /2022 to 22/01/2022

6

Awareness programme on vector borne diseases

17/08/2023

7

World Breastfeeding day was celebrated UHTC sector -24

07/08/23

8

Celebration of world TB day at RHTC Rupal

24/3/2023

9

Celebration of Menstrual Hygiene day UHTC sector -24

27/05/2023

10

Celebration of Menstrual Hygiene day at RHTC Rupal

29/5/2023

11

Exhibition on NCD

17/06/2023

12

Celebration of Adolescent  Health Day at adolescent health clinic

06/01/2024

13

World TB day Rally

21/03/2024

14

Exhibition on anemia awareness

05/04/2024

15

Celebration of Menstrual Hygiene day at UHTC sector -24

28/05/2024

16

Organization of pediatric health camp in collaboration with ABVP

01/06/2024

17

Blood Donation awareness rally at Balva Village, Gandhinagar district

06/06/2024

 


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