Community Medicine

Program Description: 

Over 30 years since the establishment of community medicine educational program in Iran and its first revision in the nineties and due to changes of the community health needs up to the present, the curriculum should be revised. Since 2004-2005, a group of the program experts proceeded to develop a relatively comprehensive program supervised by Medical Education Council Secretariat using different curricula in the world, benefiting from expert opinion and considering the circumstances of the country. This curriculum was reviewed frequently in expert meetings, the discipline steering committee, development and educational planning committee and commission of Medical Education Council Secretariat. Finally it was approved by permanent commission of and announced to educational departments and universities of medical sciences that run residency programs in this field.

Definition of the Training Program:

Community medicine is a clinical specialty in which the graduated students through acquiring up to date Knowledge and technology, will be able to improve Health system leadership by improving personal, Family and community health and health Indices evaluation and analysis

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:

Duration of the Training Program is 3 years.