Outreach Program & Collaboration

Training in Community Medicine begins in the first year of MBBS and goes up to Internship. The course content is taught through Theory Classes, Practical Classes, Family Study, Clinico-Social Case Study, Field Visits, Project Work, Seminars and Tutorials. Importance is given to participatory learning. During family study and field visits students are taken to the community where they interact with the people and try to understand their health problems at grass root level and the factors that have contributed to the same.

Key activities

  • Clinical: Comprehensive health care to the community with emphasis on healing at the individual, family, and community levels
  • Health promotion: Developing and implementing educational initiatives to raise awareness and promote healthy behaviors within communities.
  • Vaccination: Organizing and conducting large-scale immunization efforts to protect populations against vaccine-preventable diseases.
  • Screening: Conducting screenings to detect health conditions early and facilitate timely intervention and treatment in the community
  • Disease surveillance: Disease surveillance and outbreak investigations to monitor, analyze, and respond to disease trends to prevent and control outbreaks effectively.
  • Research: Training the undergraduates and postgraduates to design and conduct high-quality research works would contribute to practice of evidence- based medicine

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