Overview
Community medicine is taught for III AND IV BHMS students according to the syllabus prescribed by RGUHS, Bangalore. A total of 150 Theory classes and 150 hours of practicals are taken for the students. Practical classes include field visits, Health survey visits, Health awareness programmes, International and national health day observations. Final year BHMS students are taken to chemical factory (MRPL/BASF/HUL), Milk pasteurization units (DKMU), Water purification centre, sewage treatment plant, PHC, Anganwadi, Subcentre, and family survey visits. Every month one important national health days are observed by inviting some guest lecturers from different institutions. Some important days observed are world health day, world cancer day, world TB day etc.
Facility
Museum
The department has well equipped museum. Various charts, specimen, food grains of nutritive importance are kept in the museum. In the demonstration room many health education charts and boards are displayed.
Medical Camps
The department is organizing medical camps, school health check up programme, Health education programme periodically in collaboration with various NGO’S. for the academic year 2016, a new mobile center is added. As an outreach center, one village by name Kotekar has been adopted by Department of Community Medicine.
Appointed one Medico Social worker to aid the outreach programmes.
Our Doctors
