Dept. of Family & Community Medicine
MSc Curriculum

1st Semester

2nd Semester

PhD Curriculum

1st Semester

2nd Semester

1. EpidemiologyFor 60 hours (Theory 2 hours/week & Practical 2 hours/week of 3 credits)

1. Evolution of epidemiology
2. International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and ICD10
3. Epidemiology is a population science
4. Syndromic versus co-occurrence
5. Communicable disease epidemiology
6. Host-agent-environment model
7. Surveillance of disease
8. Investigation of an epidemic
9. Tools of the trade
10.  Measures of disease frequency
11.  Screening test
12.  Epidemiological studies designs

1. Epidemiology of Communicable Diseasesfor 30 hours (Theory 2 hours/week of 2 credits)

1. General consideration
2. Nosocomial infections
3. Malaria
4. Leishmania
5. Schistozomiasis
6. Measles
7. Diphtheria
8. Tetanus
9. Bordetella pertussis
10. Mumps
11. Rubella
12. Viral Hepatitis
13. Hepatitis A virus (HAV)
14. Hepatitis B virus (HBV)
15. Parentally transmitted non-A non-B Hepatitis
16. Enterically transmitted non-A non-B Hepatitis
17. Hepatitis D virus (HDV)
18. Poliomyelitis
19. Sexually transmitted disease (STDs)
20. Acquired immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
21. Chlamydial infection
22. Trichomoniasis infection
23. Syphilis
24. Gonococcal infection
25. Rabies
26. Typhoid and Paratyphoid fever & Cholera

1. Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Diseasesfor 15 hours (Theory 1 hour/week of 1 credit)

1. Introduction
2. Epidemiology of hypertension
3. Epidemiology of heart disease.
4. (Box) Genes
5. Epidemiology of Cerebrovascular accident.
6. Epidemiology of Diabetes Mellitus.
7. Epidemiology of Cancer.
1. Stomach Cancer Epidemiology
2. Lung Cancer Epidemiology
3. Bladder Cancer Epidemiology
4. Colorectal Cancer Epidemiology
5. Breast Cancer Epidemiology
6. Cancer of Cervix Epidemiology
8. Epidemiology of Rheumatic fever
9. Epidemiology of Peptic Ulcer
10. Definition of genetic epidemiology
11. General methods employed in genetic epidemiology
12. Epidemiological studies of family aggregation
13. Twins studies
14. Adoption studies
15. Inbreeding studies
16. Epidemiological studies of specific genetic factors

1. Biostatisticsfor 30 hours (theory 2 hours/week) of 2 credits

1. Introduction to biostatistics
2. Sampling, randomization
3. Presentation of data, tables, graphs
4. Measures of central tendency
5. Measures of dispersion
6. Probability
7. Statistical Inference
8. Hypothesis Testing Steps
9. Non-parametric Tests
10. Chi square test
11. Linear regression and correlation coefficient estimation
12. ANOVA

1. SPSS Computer Package for 30  (Practical 2 hours/week of 1 credit)

1. Introduction for the program and its applications.
2. Preparing data for entry, import data from different other programs, and types of files in SPSS.
3. Using the spread sheet for data entry according to the type of variable.
4. Correct errors of data entry and prepare data for analysis and using sorting, merging, inserting variables or cases, and selecting specific cases.
5. Ways of transforming data by computing, counting, categorizing, recoding, and replacing missing values of the data.
6. Performing data analysis including:

1. Describing the data using frequencies, exploring, describing numeric variables, and cross tabulation.
2. Performing Chi Square test for string variables.
3. Comparing means using Student’s t-test in all its applications, and ANOVA test.
4. Computation of correlation and regression.

1. Primary Health Care for 45 hours (Theory 3 hours/week of 3 credits)

1. Concept of health care
2. Health system
3. Levels of health care
4. Alma Ata Declaration
5. Principles of PHC
6. Intersectorial collaboration and appropriate health technology in PHC
7. Community participation
8. Equity in health
9. Millennium development goals
10. District health services
11. Maternal mortality
12. Integrated management of pregnant women and new-born
13. Diarrhoeal Diseases control program
14. Control of ARI program
15. Immunization (EPI)
16. Growth monitoring
17. Breastfeeding
18. Integrated management of childhood illnesses IMCI
19. Adolescent Health program
20. School Health program
21. Health of Elderly

1. Health Education for 15 hours (Theory 1 hour/week of 1 credit)

1. Health Behaviour and Health Education
2. People working with People
3. Planning for Health Education in Primary Health Care
4. Health Education with Individuals
5. Health Education with Groups
6. Health Education with People
7. Communicating the Health Messages, Methods, Media, and Tools

1. Behavior and Social Sciences for15 hours (Theory 1 hour/week of 1 credit)

1. Anthropology
2. Pervasiveness of culture, language and culture, folk culture, and subculture
3. Social role
4. Social disorganization and deviance
5. Culture and illness
6. Socialization
7. Health and illness, sick role
8. Level of social influence on behaviour, determinant of human behaviour, and determinant of human behaviour
9. Lay theories of illness causation.
10. Definition of some symptoms as “abnormal”.
11. Non-physical triggers to the decision to seek medical aids
12. Folk illness
13. Basic concept of health behavior in the following areas:
14. Patient-doctor relationship
15. Patient help seeking behavior
16. Patient compliance with treatment
17. Patient appraisal of health risk
18. The doctor-patient consultation
19. Problems that might interfere with communication with patients.
20. Abnormal illness response, conflict, and anxiety.
21. Patient expectation and negotiation.
22. Describing doctor-patient relationship.

1. Occupational and Environmental Medicine45 hours (Theory 3 hours/week of 3 credits)

1. Introduction(history of occupational medicine)
2. Occupational health services and programs
3. Epidemiology of occupational medicine
4. Epidemiology of occupational injuries
5. Occupational hazards
6. Heavy metals
7. Toxicology (introduction)
8. Occupational cancer
9. Occupational lung diseases (Introduction)
10. Occupational eye diseases
11. Occupational skin diseases
12. Occupational heart diseases
13. Toxic liver disorders
14. Toxic peripheral  neuropathy
15. Occupational deafness
16. Occupational hygiene
17. Child labor
18. Occupational disorders of hematology
19. Environmental and occupational causes of toxic injury to the kidneys and urinary tract.
20. Hard metals
21. Occupational and environmental history and examinations
22. Musculoskeletal disorders
23. Ergonomics.
24. Radiation(ionized and non-ionized)
25. Dispensary at work place
26. Pprinciples of factory establishment.
27. Impairment, Disability, and Functional Capacity
28. Psychiatric Syndromes Common to the Workplace
29. Alcohol and Drug Abuse in Industry
30. Mechanisms of Occupational Disease and Injury
31. Organic chemicals.
32. General prevention at work place
33. Sleep disorders and work
34. Shift Work and Long Work Hours
35. Introduction to environmental health (the Challenge)
36. Environmental hazards
37. Outdoor air pollutions
38. Indoor air pollutions
39. Water pollutions
40. Ozone
41. Acid rain
42. Green house phenomenon
43. Biologic and Medical Implications of Global Warming
44. Soil pollution
45. Food safety
46. Nitrogen Oxides
47. Sulfur Dioxide
48. Particulate Matter
49. Cigarette Smoking
50. The Built Environment
51. Chlorofluorocarbons and Destruction of the Ozone Layer
52. Environmental Law and Policy
53. Risk Assessment and Economic Evaluation
54. Workers' Compensation
55. Industrial Hygiene Measurement and Control
56. Hazardous waste
57. Sick Building Syndrome and Building-related Illness
58. Control Approaches of air pollution
59. Clinical approach to the patient with indoor air problems
60.  Pesticides

1. Methodology of Research for 30 hours: (Theory 2 hours/week of 2 credit)

1. Introduction and scientific method
2. Process of doing a clinical research
3. Research Question
4. Research Objective
5. Research hypothesis
6. Literature review
7. Study Designs
8. Study Subjects
9. Sample size
10.  Study Measurements
11.  Principles of Research  Ethics
12.  Writing the Research report
13.  Writing the Research proposal

1.  Health Care Administration for 15 hours: (Theory 1 hours/week of 1 credit)

1. Multidimensional Aspects of Health Care
2. Management
3. Systems
4. Organization
5. Decision Making
6. Planning
7. Forecasting
8. Marketing
9. Management Information System
10. Human Resources Management
11. Evaluation and Control
12. Emerging Trends in Health Care

1. Nutrition for 15 hours: (Theory 1 hours/week of 1 credit)

1. Nutrition status assessment
2. Community nutrition, and how to plan a healthy diet
3. RDA.
4. Dietary guidelines
5. Food guide pyramid
6. Nutritional public health problems:
7. Protein energy malnutrition
8. Nutritional anaemia
9. Vitamin A deficiency
10. Iodine deficiency

1.  Health Economics for 15 hours: (Theory 1 hours/week of 1 credit)

1. Definition of economics & health economics
2. Why health economics
3. Macro and microeconomics
4. Economic characteristics of developing countries
5. Health characteristics of developing countries
6. Cost, types, concept of cost in health economics
7. Cost trends and their causes
8. Benefits of health care
9. Economic evaluation
10.  Effectiveness
11.  Efficiency
12.  Efficacy
13.  Allocative efficiency
14.  Technical efficiency
15.  Cost-benefits analysis
16.  Cost-effectiveness analysis
17.  Cost-utility analysis

1.  Health Economics for 15 hours: (Theory 1 hours/week of 1 credit)

1. Introduction
2. Independent learning
3. How to help student learn better
4. Evidence Based Medicine
5. Learning climate
6. Teaching methods
7. How to teach knowledge, skills, and attitutes.