Courses of the First part

Credit hours

Course name

Code

Contents

Lectures

Tutorial/Practical

Total

Environmental Health

COMM 601

Physical hazards

Air pollution

Food sanitation

Water sanitation

Waste disposal

Insect & rodent control

1

1

2

Nutrition

COMM 602

Basic elements of nutrition

Food additives

Nutritional assessment

Therapeutic nutrition

1

-

1

Microbiology

COMM 603

General microbiology

special microbiology

immunology

Virology

1

0.5

1.5

Parasitology

COMM 604

Trematodes

Cestodes

Nematodes

Protozoa

Entomology

Far East Trematodes

Parasitological techniques

Immunology.

1

0.5

1.5

Psychology

COMM 605

Motivation

Leadership

Communication

1

-

1

Total

7 credit hours

Courses of the second part

Course name

Code

Contents

Lectures

Tutorial/Practical

Total

Medical statistics

COMM 606

Types of data

Collection of data Presentation  of data(tabular & graphic)

Summarization of data

Analysis of data

Hypothesis testing

Interpretation of data.

Ethics of research

1

1

2

Demography

COMM 607

Census

Population pyramid

Demographic transition

Overpopulation problem

Biostatistics &vital rates

1

-

1

Epidemiology

COMM 608

General epidemiology

Epidemiology of Communicable &

non communicable  diseases

3

1

4

Health services

COMM 609

Maternal & child health services

School health services

Adolescent health services

Rural health services

Geriatric health services

Occupational health services

Mental health

4

1

5

Health economics

COMM 610

Disease burden

1

-

1

Nutritional disorders

COMM 611

Malnutrition

Obesity

1

0.5

1.5

Administration

COMM 612

POSDCORB

Evaluation

Quality assurance

Total quality management

Hospital administration

Communication

Leadership

1

0.5

1.5

Special Topics

COMM 613

Recent topics related to Community Medicine

1

-

1

Total

17 credit hours