Syllabus - MBBS

64 Syllabus MBBS — AIIMS
COMMUNITY MEDICINE
The broad goal of teaching in Community Medicine is to prepare the student to function effectively as a
community physician.
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
1. Describe the concepts of community health and measures of levels of health.
2. Describe the epidemiological methods.
3. Apply appropriate epidemiological methods to communicable and non-communicable diseases in
the hospital and community situations.
4. Use epidemiological tools to make rational decisions relevant at the individual and community levels.
5. Describe and use basic bio-statistical methods.
6. Select, use and interpret bio-statistical methods to make inferences from hospital/community data.
7. Describe the demographic pattern of the country and its relation to health.
8. Define vital statistics and describe the various methods that are used to collect vital statistics in
India.
9. Describe environmental hazards - inside the home, at the workplace and in the community.
10. Describe and analyze the importance of water and sanitation in human health.
11. Suggest feasible methods of environmental control at household and community levels.
12. Describe common occupational hazards in industries, agriculture, and services available to industrial
workers.
13. Describe feasible methods of control of occupational hazards.
14. Plan, collect, analyze, interpret and present data from a hospital/community survey.
15. Describe and analyze the roles of the individuals, family, community and socio-cultural milieu in
health and disease.
16. Diagnose and manage maternal and child health problems and advise couples and the community on