HEALTH CLINIC

VISITS

Dr.Yadav/Dr. Vera
Training in Community Medicine
 Foundation 1
Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Occupational health,
Maternal and child health, culture and health.
Understanding the MOH organization
Knowledge & understanding of people and
communities. (People, Disease, environment)
 Semester 2
Prevention of diarrheal diseases, respiratory
diseases, CVS,
 Semester 3
Prevention of renal diseases, Reproductive health
(STD/HIV), population dynamics, Prevention of
Breast and cervical cancers
 Semester 4 Health clinic visits
Components of HCV
 1.Field Survey (questionnaire preparation,
collection of data, analysis, presentation, report
writing,)

 2.Research project ( a research project on any

area in the health, guided by facilitator)

 3. Understand the organization of the district

 4.Field visits (visits to public health related

areas)- if time permits
 What you are expected to learn

 Able to plan, develop questionnaires and carry

out epidemiological surveys
 Understand the ethics of doing a survey
 Develop leadership and teamwork
 Able to come to a community diagnosis and
suggest remedies
 Improve communication skills.
 Able to do a small research project based on
academic protocol.
 Understand the rural health care system and
its organisation
3 days in IMU 2 days in field 5 days debrief

•Lecture on •Collect and •Prepare for

introduction analyse data for debrief in IMU
•Survey methods survey (Field
stations) •Debrief survey
•Orientation findings and
•Collect data for research project
•Questionnaire research project
preparation •Prepare the
•Field visits portfolio
1.Field survey
 Class divided into number of
stations/health clinic
 Each station divided into number of
groups
 Each student will belong to a survey
group
 All survey groups going to a particular
station will finalise questionnaire first
 Review of questionnaire will be done by
students and staff facilitators
 About 150-200 houses to be surveyed.
Field survey Questionnaire

 Socio- demography  Food and nutrition

 Income and  Cultural beliefs and
expenditure practices
 Housing
 Water supplies
 Excreta and waste
disposal
 Working environment
2.Research Project

 The group also does a research project

 Each group can plan their own project
 The preparation for the project is done
before leaving for the field
 Data collection and analysis in the field
 The research project is to be presented
to the panel during the debrief when the
students return from the field.
3.Organization of the district

 What is the organisation of the

district/health clinic
 What are the different programmes at the
district level/health clinic level?
 What are the programmes at the health
centre level?
 Organisation chart of the district.
 Roles and responsibilities of the staff
 Programme for Health clinic visits
 15th-17th Jan 2013 Introduction & student discussion

 18th-19th Jul 2013 Health Survey in the Districts

 20th-24th Jul 2013 Prepare for debriefing

 25th Jul 2013 Presentation on Household survey and clinic

organisation.

 26th Jul 2013 Presentation on Research Project

 26th August 2013 Dateline for Portfolio Submission

Debriefing in IMU to a panel
 Open ended format/Students present

 Identify the important aspects of the

survey

 What is the meaning of the statistics

collected?

 Debrief only 20 minutes/questions 5 mins.

 Staff of Com Med will form the panel to

evaluate.
Skills learned during HCV
 Survey methods
 Epidemiological methods
 Organisation skills
 Communication skills
 Team work
 Leadership
 Presentation skills
 Research skills
 Computer skills (SPSS)
HCV student organisation
 Students learn to organise during the HCV
 Station manager
 Finance officer
 Logistics officer
 Group leader
 Presentation officer
 Rapporteurs and Presenters
 Facilitator (Com Med staff)
Evaluation on the students

 Evaluation is done on each student

 Group evaluation (Preparation of reports,

debriefing, field visit report, research
project report)

 Individual evaluation (active participation,

attendance, team work etc.)
Output of HCV

 Portfolio (40-60 pages)

 Organization of the district
 Field survey report
 Research report
Safety precautions during field visit

 IMU dress code/ ID tags

 Avoid wearing any jewelry (ladies)
 No expensive handbags (ladies)
 Avoid bringing lap tops, I Pads etc. Cannot
guarantee they can’t be lost.
 Work in teams of two and three
 Appoint a safety officer in your group
 Useful to bring your own cars
THANK YOU