MISSION

The mission of the  of   Community Medicine is to serve the countrymen of Pakistan by providing quality predoctoral, residency, and continuing medical education in Community Medicine, engage in scholarly pursuits related to Community Medicine, and provide quality medical care to patients. In the course of achieving this mission, the department will promote the specialty of community medicine, assure faculty development, and provide public education.

The stated missions of the  Community Medicine are threefold:

Education: To participate in the training and continuing education of physicians, medical students, and other allied health professionals in our state and region.

Research: To collect and analyze information pertaining to the health and health care needs of the people of our state and region.

Service: To propose and facilitate initiatives through which the health and well being of our population can be improved.

 

 

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OBJECTIVES

1. To make the students understand the concept of Primary Health care through community oriented medical education approach.
2. To expose the students to the real life situation regarding health problems of the communities.
3. Train the students in taking community diagnosis of health status of the population.
4. To enable the students to practice Primary health Care in communities.
5. To train the students  in routine management of married women of reproductive age and children below 5 yeas of age
6. To train the students in the concept and delivery of school health services.
7. To develop the inter personal communication and integrated approach among community people, health care providers and social workers.
8. To develop coordination and intersectoral collaboration among various health care providers and health care related agencies
9. To develop coordination and intersectoral collaboration among various health care providers and health care related agencies

  

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10. to make the students capable of identifying diseases in early stages in all age-groups,  to solve their problems at the primary care level and refer the  complicated cases to secondary or tertiary care level facilities.

  

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11. To develop Local committees manned by the local residents of those communities, trained and supervised by the staff of Department of Community medicine.