Major component of Community medicine in taught in two streams, namely Doctor in Society (DIS) stream and Communication, Learning and Research (CLR) streams.

• The two credits DIS module mainly covers demography, environmental health, primary health care, injury prevention and medical sociology and
• The 2 credit CLR module is on statistics.

• The 2 credits CLR module covers research methods.

• The 3 credits DIS module focuses mainly on Maternal and Child Health (MCH), occupational health, prevention, and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases.

• 1 credit Communication in health care module.

• The 3 credits DIS module is on applied epidemiology, community pediatrics, health promotion, health economics and function and duties of special campaigns/units of the public health sector.

• Students carry out a research project under the supervision of a senior academic for 4 credits and submit a project report which is evaluated at the end of Y4S2.

• Students learn Public Health Practice for a duration of 1 month as a clinical appointment.

• Evaluation of the students is carried out at end semester exams (SAQ/Essay/OSPE/viva)