CM341 : Family and community medicine I

Compulsory

This course:

Identify the concepts of community medicine, epidemiology, health, and disease. Distinguish between the different determinants of health and disease.
Define the different epidemiologic approaches to measure the occurrence of disease in communities and compare between different epidemiological study designs, differentiate between association and causation.
Recognize types of epidemics and the main steps of epidemic investigations and know types, uses of screening tests and أ4 surveillance.
Determine the sources of health information and appropriate data collection and bio-statistical methods; and describe the أ5 demographic pattern of the country.
Identify the research process, research ethics, and research proposal principles and recognize IMRaD format in writing scientific research.
Describe the health care delivery system and the principles of health care management; define elements of health service quality and patient safety.

By the end of the course, the student will be able to:

Recognize the development of community medicine and appreciate the significance of community. medicine in promotive, preventive, curative, and rehabilitative health interventions.
Explain the basic principles of epidemiology, including health and disease determinants, natural history, levels of prevention, dynamics of disease transmission, epidemiological measurements, epidemiological studies, screening, causation, and surveillance.
Acquire knowledge and skills of basic principles of biostatistics and health information systems and how to apply them in the medical field for problem solving and decision - making.
Discuss the concepts, process of research and acquire skills to carry out the scientific research tacking into account the ethical considerations.
Demonstrate understanding of concepts, elements of health care management and the health care system in Libya, including health care quality and patient safety.

Research proposal assignment ------------- 10%

Midterm Exam ------------------- 20%

Modified OSPE exam----------------- 20%

Final written exam ---------------- 50%

Weeks	Subjects	Hours
1	Introduction to Community Introduction to Epidemiology Concept of Health Concept of Disease	4
2	Disease Control and Prevention Definition and Types of Variables Descriptive Statistics	4
3	Basic Epidemiological Measurements Dynamic of Disease	4
4	Health Indicators Concepts in Research & Research Process Writing a research proposal	4

5	Descriptive Epidemiology , Case control study Sampling	4
6	Cohort study Medical and Research Ethics Source and Uses of Health Information	4
7	Screening for Diseases Descriptive Epidemiology Exercise Experimental Epidemiology Proposal discussion-1 (title, aim, objectives)	4
8	Healthcare Management Epidemic Investigation Surveillance Analytical Epidemiology Exercise Proposal discussion -2 (methodology)	4
9	Data Collection, IMRaD Screening Exercise	4
10	Health Care Delivery System & Policies Demography Epidemic Investigation Exercise	4
11	Association & Causation , Effective Presentation Data Distribution Proposal presentation	4

12	Inferential Statistics , Vital statistics Hospital Statistics Proposal presentation	5
13	Plagiarism , Proposal presentation Questionnaire Design Exercise SPSS Exercise	7
14	Healthcare System in Libya &patient Safety Healthcare Management Exercise Proposal presentation	6