Family Medicine

Program Description: 

According to the dictionaries of Epidemiology“General Health” is the science and art of disease prevention, life Longevity and health promotion through society organized efforts.

General health provision is the responsibility of health system including the spectrum of policy makers to health service providers. Among this group, physicians have the most important role in health service provision, and based on WHO programs family medicine specialists are the cornerstone of health service provision Family medicine program approach is health based, comprehensive responsive holistic Medicine for all families and community. Graduates of the program will provide curative, health protective, preventive services and will promote community health. Nowadays, family medicine specialty is presented in developed and developing countries such as the USA, UK, Canada, Scandinavia, France, and some Middle East countries (Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, and UAE. In 2010, Islamic republic of Iran   decided to provide this specialty program 

Objectives:

A list of the most important competencies
Health status assessment
• Criticizing and analyzing health policies, programs and projects
• Being able to conduct applied research and applying the research results
• Analyzing data
• Assessing population health
• Assessing community
• Identifying risk factors and developing plans to mitigate risks
• Providing advice for health and lifestyle changes
• Investigating and controlling epidemics
• Analyzing the future health status of the community
• Developing and analyzing health system indicators
• Developing diseases geography and map spotting
Determining and implementing interventions to improve health status:
• Performing health system management
• Developing strategic plans
• Performing economic analysis of interventions and programs especially for cost-effectiveness of
• Seeking support for health promotion (advocacy)
• Social marketing in healthy management of the disease in the community
• Providing health and lifestyle advice
Evaluating interventions:
• Being able to conduct applied research and applying the research results
• Health surveillance
Other areas:
• Providing advice to health system agents
• Self-promotion
• Team working
• Communicating
• Managing projects
• Theorizing in the field of public health 

Duration:

Program duration: 4 years