Department of Community Medicine
Established in 1977, the Department of Community Medicine at Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, under Manipal Academy of Higher Education, provides high-quality training in community medicine to undergraduate medical students and postgraduate students of allied health science specialties. The department integrates teaching, research, and community service, offering preventive, promotive, and curative health services through different tiers of health care delivery systems. It is also involved in various national and internationally-funded research projects and encourages undergraduates to participate in ICMR-STS projects.
Highlights
- Established in 1977 with core competencies in preventive, promotive, and community health services.
- Provides training in research methodology, statistics, and epidemiological methods with application to communicable and non-communicable diseases in the community.
- Involves monitoring and evaluation of ongoing National Health Policy and programs.
- Incorporates research into medical undergraduate curriculum during fourth-semester clinical postings to develop student research skills.
- Maintains active research collaborations with international funding agencies including University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA), University of Arizona (USA), and Monash University (Malaysia).
- Collaborates with leading national health institutes including National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (India), St John's Research Institute, Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, and Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences Technology.
Services
Offered
Preventive and Promotive Health Services
The department provides community health services across preventive and health-promotion initiatives with monitoring and evaluation of national health policies and programs.
