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Undergraduate Studies - Department of Family & Community Medicine Curriculum for 3rd and 4th Year.
30 hours theory (2 hours/week)
Course objectives: At the end of the course the student should be able to list and describe the evolution of health and preventive medicine activities.
Course objectives: At the end of the course the student should be able to list and describe the theory and techniques of collecting, collating, analysing and interpreting data.
Course objectives: At the end of the course the student should be able to use the science of nutrition to identify and intervene in health problems related to nutrition.
Course objectives: At the end of the course the student should be able to describe the concepts and inter-relationship of family medicine, function, and roles together with promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health principles and practices.
Course objectives: At the end of the course the student should be able to describe the relationship between environmental factors and health and acquire skills on the assessment and management of modern environmental health problems.
45 hours theory (3 hours/week)
Course objectives: At the end of the course the student should be able to list and describe the socially and biologically based population processes and their consequences on public health.
Course objectives: At the end of the course the student should be able to provide knowledge and skills to: Predict trends in disease occurrences. Describe disease models, risk, and contributing. Assess an epidemic. Formulate disease preventive strategies.
Course objectives: At the end of the course the student should be able to know different epidemiological study designs and have the skills to carry out a scientific research.
Course objectives: To introduce the students to the concept of primary health care and to install in them the technical skills to operate at the Primary Health Care level. At the end of the course the student should be able to develop the skill, attitude and motivation to work in Primary Health Care centre, to assess the health of the people, to promote the health and to organize relevant programmes to alleviate the people’s health problems.
Course objectives: At the end of the course the student should be able to describe the roles of culture, social, psychological and geographical factors in the aetiology of disease, the relationship between social class and other family characteristics and accessibility to health care services and attitudes toward seeking medical care.
Course objectives: At the end of the course the student should be able to acquire knowledge and skills on diseases associated with occupational exposures and how they can be prevented. And also to know how to organize and manage occupational health services.
Course objectives: At the end of the course the student should be able to list and describe the health education processes including assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of health education interventions.
30 hours theory (2 hours/week)
Course objectives: At the end of the course the student should be able to understand the basic concepts, principles, tools and techniques of modern management and their practical application at various levels of health care delivery (primary, secondary and tertiary; public and private sectors).
Course objectives: At the end of the course the student should be able to describe the risk factors and skills required for the prevention of chronic diseases of Public Health importance.
Course objectives: At the end of the course the student should be able to list and describe the distribution, mode of transmission, risk factors, and the skills required for the prevention and control of infectious diseases of Public Health importance in Iraq.
Research projects: In order to further equip students on the application of research methodology, skill and project development and write-up, each group of students will be expected to choose a topic for community based study. This is done under the supervision of a lecturer in the Department. Each group will be expected to defend their project work during the oral examination and will submit a hard cover bound completed project to the Department for assessment.
