UG Course
Goal
Produce a primary care physician who can promote health, prevent disease, and manage individuals, families and communities within national programmes.
Objectives:
- Explain the physician’s role in prevention, cure, rehabilitation, palliation and referral.
- Describe health, disease, demography, disease burden, and basics of health economics.
- Identify physical, social, psychological, economic and environmental determinants and apply them to common health problems and National Health Programmes.
- Plan, implement and monitor primary‑care programmes, including malnutrition and emergencies.
- Conduct basic outbreak investigations and community health assessments.
- Apply nutrition knowledge for health promotion and disease prevention.
- Understand epidemiological study designs, interpret disease epidemiology and critically review literature.
- Respond to pandemics/epidemics and emerging diseases under supervision, advising on prevention per national/international guidelines.
- Use family‑adoption and public‑health principles in community practice.
- Employ behaviour‑change communication to address communicable, non‑communicable diseases, addictions and misinformation.
