Syllabus - MBBS

Community Medicine 79
3. Statistical data of Ballabgarh Project and comparison with the national figures.
The statistics to be known are:
Birth Rate
Death Rate
Infant Mortality Rate
Maternal Mortality Rate
Eligible Couple Protection Rate
Immunization Coverage
4. Conduction of an epidemiological study.
Selection of a problem occurring in the community.
Review literature to find out the extent of the problem in the country.
Decision whether to survey the entire population or a sample using the usual sampling techniques.
Designing a proforma, pretesting and then using.
Data collected is analysed and presented to the faculty of community medicine for discussion.
A plan for feasible intervention measures is drawn up and will be executed.
The final report (typed two copies) is to be submitted within 1 week of completion of the posting.
5. Models of health care delivery in rural areas and the national health programmes:
A visit to the Chief Medical Officer’s office (Faridabad) to learn the following:
organisation of services
administrative structure
functions of
– PHCs
– Rural dispensaries
– Referral hospitals
– District hospitals
collection of data at district headquarters transmission of data from district headquarters drug supply
national health programmes at district level
– Malaria
– Tuberculosis
– Family Welfare
– EPI/UIP
constraints in functioning
Visits to 3 Primary Health Centres (Dayalpur, CHC Kurali and Kherikalan) to compare and contrast the
functioning of all. The main objectives of these visits are to make you realise the vast gap between
theory and practice of primary health care. The following will be learnt:
the functions of the PHC
roles of the following field workers
– Male Multipurpose Worker