STRATEGIES

 

Small group discussion

The Department of Community Medicine has evolved into a complex component of the Medical University and plays a major role in preparing medical students and public health physicians to meet the primary health care needs of the country Specifically, our medical students embrace the concept of our mission to prepare them for the practice of medicine in rural and medically underserved areas of Pakistan. As well, we educate our public health students to become responsive to the vast array of health needs so as to identify areas of significant risk to the Pakistani

Lab. Work in community counseling camp

 

population. The department is committed to provide  the appropriate tools to all our students to become community responsive health professionals who are educated in the basics of community assessments, information technology, clinical aspects of evidence-based decision making, interpretation of the medical literature, practice management studies and population-based health care and medicine.  The accomplishments of these efforts in the department are administered through the delivery of the following programs:

i)Undergraduate teaching at MBBS level

ii)Diploma in Public Health

iii)Master in Public Health

iv)M.Phil leading to Ph.D programs

Oral examination in community counseling camp

 

Department of Community medicine in King Edward Medical University, Lahore has brought a dramatic change in the subject to such an extent that now at the end of 4^th year every student is fully conscious of community problems and he is well equipped with all the basic and necessary skills to act as a capable health manager. He is able to solve the community problems through community participation, promotion of the concept of health–conscious community, research-oriented approach and community oriented medical education. Through training received in the dept. of community medicine, he has developed enormous confidence in his personality and now he can provide primary health care to people upon their entire satisfaction. This all was due to launching of community based training and research program in 1995 when a large number of urban, Peri urban, slums and rural areas were probed regularly by the students of 4^th year MBBS under the guidance of the staff of department of Community medicine.

 

A group of students in class

  

 This program is the real backbone of the mission statement of this department. Through this program up till now thousands of community people have been given health education to prevent diseases, promote health and prolong their life in healthy direction. Apart from health education, communities have been educated and trained to keep the environment clean, to have safe water, adequate sanitation measures and to promote inter personnel communication. Special emphasis was given to improve reproductive health services and child care. Communities were also trained how to identify and manage various endemic diseases. In brief communities were made health conscious and this process is continued till we transform our nation into a well aware and fully health conscious nation.

 

 

Small group discussion on fruits

 

  In the past, training was restricted to theory lectures and some field visits to show the health care delivery outlets. Which were confined to the level of just passing the examination.

  

Abdominal examination in community counseling camp

 

But now we are working on four (4) major fronts and these are:-

Imparting Basic Core Knowledge

Training Program

Research Program

Evaluation