Name=C V Raghuveer
Medical Collage faculties
Community Medicine has a huge shortage of teachers in this country. There are colleges with a single teachig staff in this dept.Also please invite people who have practised SDL, OSPE & OSCI to the meetings for meaningful discussions.Internship can be made more interesting only when the PG Entrance Tests are revamped to include mostly clinically oriented questions which will require that Interns take their postings seriously.Simple memory recalll questions have spoiled the Entrance Tests totally.
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Dear sir/madam,
I would like to comment on syllabus for community medicine under occupational health. I have been working as an occupational health consultant for about 3 years now. The concept of ergonomics is more specialised topic whereas diagnostic criteria related to occupational diseases is more relevant in terms of these future MBBS students join as medical officers in industries where they would be requested to comment whether the pathological changes observed is due to occupation or not and compensable or not. Hence even the legislations are also a must know than desirable. Ergonomics being a specialisation can be shifted to desirable. Since due to industrialisation boom and requirements for occupational health physicians in various factories which has become necessary these future medical students should also be geared to look into occupational health along with building their capacities for providing primary health care.
regards
Dr. Sudha chandrashekar MBBS, MD, D.I.H, (MPH)
Consultant economist
London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine(U.K)
Consultant in occupational health, ria diagnostics, bangalore
Ph: 2347995(Res) Mobile:-9900145859
e-mail:sudhashreec@yahoo.co.in,
Dear sir/madam,
I would like to comment on syllabus for community medicine under occupational health. I have been working as an occupational health consultant for about 3 years now. The concept of ergonomics is more specialised topic whereas diagnostic criteria related to occupational diseases is more relevant in terms of these future MBBS students join as medical officers in industries where they would be requested to comment whether the pathological changes observed is due to occupation or not and compensable or not. Hence even the legislations are also a must know than desirable. Ergonomics being a specialisation can be shifted to desirable. Since due to industrialisation boom and requirements for occupational health physicians in various factories which has become necessary these future medical students should also be geared to look into occupational health along with building their capacities for providing primary health care.
regards
Dr. Sudha chandrashekar MBBS, MD, D.I.H, (MPH)
Consultant economist
London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine(U.K)
Consultant in occupational health, ria diagnostics, bangalore
Ph: 2347995(Res) Mobile:-9900145859
e-mail:sudhashreec@yahoo.co.in,
Dear Sir/madam,
Community medicine departments are supposed to the backbone of rural health care .Sadly many of the colleges who are recently approved /recognised lack even the basic infrastructure in the departments ,leave alone standards to be met in the health facilities provided to rural patients.Most of the time the inspections take into account the manpower and physical standards like buildings etc which most institutions, project/ present very well during the time of inspection.But community rapport and participation is nil or non exixtent .Most of the rural patients prefer travelling all the way to far off health care facilities than suffer the callous and disinterested approach by the staff appointed by these medical colleges who are forever looking for greener pastures since the demand far exceeds the supply of manpower in this department in most newly established colleges.Given the prevailing conditions there is no scope for rural health care to be benefiting from these medical colleges in the true sense.The point i am trying to put acrosss is that the criteria for establishment of medical colleges should compulsorily include the establishment of the department of community medicine first and foremost and show its rural health care facilities provided in the outreach areas by taking over the administation of three PHC'S and effectively managing them.Only after this criteria is met,should the the sanctioning of other departments be given. Establishing community oriented health care through these institutions will prove to be a big boon for NRHM .Otherwise access to affordable health care will remain a distant dream and the right of only a few privileged populations.Enforcing these guidelines in the true spirit will ensure that departments of community medicine are empowered to impart clinical care and it will percolate down to improving public health and health of communities effortlessly thruogh the existing infrastructure of primary health care.LONG LIVE COMMUNITY MEDICINE AND COMMUNITY PHYSICIANS.!
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