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Introduction: The discipline of Public Health/Community Medicine or Preventive and Social Medicine, as it is commonly known in medical colleges of India, is an important subject in terms of relevance to health. Objective: This paper aims to give an overview of the teaching of Community Medicine at undergraduate level in medical colleges in India. Results: At present, there are 299 medical colleges in India, with an annual output of about 28 000 medical graduates. Community Medicine is taught in all colleges. We have cited examples of innovative teaching and assessment methods which have been tried in some medical colleges of the country, and tried to draw lessons learnt from these case studies for discussion. Discussion and conclusions: It is seen that strong community-based programmes, multidisciplinary approach, active participation from the community, provision of curative services, residential nature of students, and teaching epidemiological methods through real life situations, making them interesting and meaningful to the students are some of the key methods for a successful training of undergraduate students in public health. Therefore, community-based teaching should be strongly emphasized.
- 出版日期2011-5
- 单位河北医科大学
