Scenario of Postgraduate Medical Education in Community Medicine in India

The objectives and goals of Postgraduate medical education in Community Medicine are to produce competent specialists to manage the teaching departments in the Medical colleges, or to manage health services and national health programmes at various levels or to conduct biomedical research in the discipline of community medicine. It is expected that the specialist so trained will be able to manage effectively the health services at Primary Secondary and tertiary level of care and function as effective leader of health teams engaged in health care, research and training. Much will depend upon the nature and content of training imparted to them during postgraduate period as also on the trainers or teachers. Right now the Medical Council of India which is the regulatory body on medical education, provides broad guidelines on postgraduate medical education regulations (2000) and purposely omits detailed curriculum. As per MCI 2000 regulations the major components of Postgraduate Curriculum Constitutes: