Department Of Community Medicine

For teaching the MBBS students, the department has a full-fledged infrastructure with state-of-the-art demonstration hall, museum, research lab, library as per the NMC norms.
Periodically conducts activities for creating information education and awareness among the general public, regarding the common communicable, non-communicable diseases and government health programmes, centered around the field practice area of the department as well as the neighbouring PHCs and UHTCs, involving the MBBS students and CRMIs.
Implementing the Family Adoption Programme(Community First Programme), an experiential learning programme aimed at improving Health equity by providing medical graduates with Community based healthcare experience. Every year the first year MBBS students are allotted five families to follow during the entire duration of the course, which helps the students to understand patient care from a holistic perspective.
The Bio statistics section caters to the needs of the undergraduate students as well as the faculty who periodically conduct short study projects, involving the II^ndand III^rd MBBS students to get the epidemiologic pattern of common health issues.
Implementing and running the MTM OPD, a flagship programme of the Government of Tamil Nadu, focusing predominantly on non- communicable diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cervical cancer, breast cancer and other oral cancers; in addition to this patients are also screened on a periodic basis and hence any high risk population is identified and appropriate health education is given by the CRMIs.
Running a dedicated Fever OPD, manned by CRMIs and supervised by the faculty-in-charge, which is a first point of contact for the investigation and management of common febrile illnesses. The Department also maintains the fever surveillance data for all the OPD and IPD cases reported at the hospital and periodically updating the same in the IHIP portal under the IDSP wing.
Periodically conducting Monsoon Camps for the seasonal febrile illneses and also NCD camps for the screening and detection of new cases of Non communicable diseases in the community and Preventive health camps for ESI beneficiaries in their work place.
Students are taken for field visits regularly to various places of public health importance for imparting knowledge.
In coordination with state planning commission we undertake evaluation surveys of various state run beneficiary programmes like CM breakfast scheme and Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam.