Medicine is a multidisciplinary field where one subject complements the other and adds its own knowledge base and perspective to improve patient care. Community medicine aims to provide a promotive and preventive perspective to predominantly curative subjects like Medicine, OBG, and Pediatrics.
This book is an attempt to integrate (horizontal + vertical) the learning of most commonly encountered public health problems. Thus providing a one stop solution for bedside case discussions and integrated small group discussions.
- Focuses on concept-based learning by helping the students understand the relevance of each segment in case taking and its role in disease management.
- Enlightens the role of culture, socioeconomic stratification, and healthcare delivery system in protecting and restoring the health of citizens, promoting “social physicians”.
- National health programs are incorporated in a realistic, easily comprehensible, and integrated manner to facilitate students to decipher how they work at ground level for disease control.
- Promotes compassion and empathy in students by reorienting their perspective of a patient not only as a diseased organ system but as a person with emotions, social and financial obligations, and constraints.
- Contributes to the improvement of quality of healthcare by motivating future doctors to give appropriate health education and advocate sustainable changes in life that promote health.
