NORTHERN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL COLLEGE
Department of Community medicine


Course Offered
Study of Community Medicine will start from 1st Term and extend over six terms of six months each (3/1 & rehabilitative) to the people by a health team in order to improve the health of the community. It deals with population or groups rather than individual patients. It is concerned with identification and assessment of health needs of the people, health problems affecting them and to devise appreciate measures (planning, organization, delivery and evaluation of health core services) to meet these requirements as best as possible with the available resources. Community Medicine is thus a bridge between public health and clinical medicine. Successful implementation of a community health program under the leadership of a doctor depends on the mutual co-operation among all grades of health personnel’s, social workers, community leaders connection with the program and the common team spirit exhibited by them.

Doctors should be prepared to build up on effective partnership for health. It has now been realized that medical education should include knowledge about behavioral science, for such knowledge will enable medical students appreciate human behavior better and to understand how different cultures construct health & illness. This will prepare doctors to deal more effectively the diseases and human sufferings.

Organization of 70 hrs’ community Medicine Course



During first professional MBBS course (Tem 1-3)
 

First Term	Second Term	Third Term
Community Medicine *Introduction to Community Medicine * Lecture: 6 hours Tutorial: 6 hours * Bio-statistics Lecture: 8 hours Tutorial: 8 hours	Community Medicine * Behavioral Science   Lecture: 6 hours Tutorial: 14 hours * Health Education:   Lecture: 4 hours Tutorial: 8 hours * National & International Health:   Lecture: 4 hours Tutorial: 4 hours
Total: 28 hours	Total: 42 hours
End Term Examination	End Term Examination	1st Prof. Examination

Organization of Community Medicine Course
During Second Professional MBBS Course (first to fourth term)
 

First Term	Second Term	Third Term	Fourth Term
Epidemiology: Lecture: 12 hrs Tutorial: 24 hrs Epidemiology of Common Health Problems Lecture: 30 hrs Tutorial: 24 hrs	Immunity Lecture: 10 hrs Tutorial: 10 hrs Entomology Lecture: 6 hrs Tutorial: 6 hrs Nutrition Lecture: 8 hrs Tutorial: 4 hrs Demography Lecture: 4 hrs Tutorial: 4 hrs	Material and child Health & Family Planning Lecture: 12 hrs Tutorial: 18 hrs Environmental Health Lecture: 4 hrs Tutorial: 4 hrs Ocopational Health Lecture: 6 hrs Tutorial: 6 hrs Disoster Lecture: 2 hrs Tutorial: 2 hrs Primary Health Core Lecture: 6 hrs Tutorial: 10 hrs	Residential field site training Revision
Total Lecture: 42 hrs Tutorial: 48 hrs	Total Lecture: 28 hrs Tutorial: 28 hrs	Total Lecture: 30 hrs Tutorial: 40 hrs
Grand Total lecture: 100 hours, Tutorial: 120 hours, Day visits: 40 days
Day visits will be arranged to TB, Leprosy, VD Clinic Industry NGO Food product industry, Water purification plant, MCH center, School Health Clinic, Urban Health Center Urban slum, public health institute ICDDRB.
End Term Examination	End Term Examination	End Term Examination	2nd Prof. Exam