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What are the important topics in PSM?
Important Topics in PSM
| NEET/ NBE pattern | |
|---|---|
| Health & Disease | PQLI/ HDI Levels of prevention ICD-10 Types of epidemics |
| Vaccines & Cold chain | Types of vaccines National schedule Contraindications Cold chain |
| Screening of disease | Sensitivity/ Specificity Names of Screening tests Names of diagnostic tests |
How do you prepare for community medicine?
10 steps Guide to Studying Community Medicine (PSM) during MBBS
- The first prof is generally very stressful for new MBBS entrants.
- Start studying from 2nd prof itself.
- Start reading the chapter on ‘Concepts in Health and Disease’ from standard textbooks (Presumably ‘Park & Park’, second chapter)
What do we study in community medicine?
Community medicine exposes medical students to primary and secondary healthcare settings and to promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services. This helps them to serve the needy people with a holistic approach.
What is the importance of community medicine?
It is a branch of healthcare that is concerned with the health of each individual of a community. The importance of community medicine is on the early diagnosis of disease, and the prevention of disease in the community.
What is community medicine PSM?
Immediately in many countries, the name PSM/SPM was changed to Community Medicine. In India too, Medical Council of India accepted the revised nomenclature and across most of the Universities, the departments of PSM/SPM were re named Community Medicine, without making any change in the teaching, training and practice.
How do you score more marks in community medicine?
Plan your time during the examination Each paper in the Community Medicine theory examination is of 3 hours’ duration; contains 18 questions; and carries a maximum of 60 marks. Therefore, time per mark: 180/60 = 3 minutes. In general, one should have attempted questions worth 20 marks in an hour.
Is community medicine a clinical subject?
Recently, Medical Council of India has changed its classification and labeled community medicine as a “nonclinical” specialty[3] despite the fact that clinical practice is a fundamental feature of community medicine.
What does community health include?
Community health is the convergence of health care services, economics and social responsibilities. This essential public health sector covers programs to help neighborhood members in protecting and improving their health, deter the transmission of infectious diseases, and plan for natural disasters.