2. Course Orientation CMED-304, COMM-311
Family & Community Medicine Department
King Saud University

3. Community Medicine (COMM311) (طبع 311)

4. Health of the population
Overview
This course will cover various fields of Community Medicine.
Community Medicine & Public health
Health of the population

5. Essential Public Health functions

6. Main Fields 1- Basic epidemiology. 2- Methods of Research.
3- Demography.
4- Epidemiology of infectious diseases.
5- Chronic diseases epidemiology
6- Health education.
7- Mental health.
8- Mother child health.
9- Environmental and occupational health.

7. Learning outcomes
1-Understand the process of infectious diseases transmission. 2-Understand the procedures for disease prevention and control. 3-Identify major health problems in KSA. 4- Acquire knowledge and skills required for methods of biomedical research. 5- Analyze biomedical data and present results. 6- Know the principles of preventive methods.

8. Cognitive skills
1- The ability to predict trends of disease in the community. 2-The ability to calculate rates and indicators and use then to quantify health problems. 3-The ability to develop a research proposal.

9. Lectures TWO lectures weekly throughout the year. Sunday 10-11 am
Monday
11-12 am

10. Attendance Attendance of lectures is mandatory.
Attendance will be checked at each lecture and absenteeism will be dealt according to university regulations.

11. Evaluation 1- First continuous assessment test (CAT-1) 25 %
2- Second continuous assessment
test (CAT-2) %
3- Quizzes %
4- Final Examination %

12. Quizzes will be randomly assigned during lectures.
Lecture notes will be delivered. They are essential, but not sufficient.

13. References
1-Hennekens. Epidemiology in Medicine. Little, Brown and Company 2-APHA. Control of Communicable disease in Man. 19th edition Merrill R. Introduction to epidemiology. Jones and Bartlett Publishers WHO. Basic Epidemiology. 4- www. who.int 5-

14. Text Books (Online) Principles of EPIDEMIOLOGY
in Public Health Practice
Third Edition
An Introduction to
Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Office of Workforce and Career Development
Atlanta, GA 30333

15. Text Books (Online)
Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases The Pink Book: Course Textbook 11th Edition (May 2009)
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