Table 5 Function: management of community health problems department: medicine
principle tasks | learning objectives |
|---|---|
- Practicing an evidence based clinical medicine | - Take proper clinical history, conduct general and systemic examination, select essential investigations and perform diagnosis according to specific criteria |
- Making provisional and definitive diagnosis. | - Practice putting differential diagnosis and identify the most logical diagnosing criterion |
- Prescription and evaluation of treatment. | - Practice writing drugs prescription and explain route and method of administration and its main side effects, and evaluate its impact |
- Dealing with current health traditions and customs | - Choose the negative tradition, plan to alter it, use a suitable & effective method of communication. |
- Prevention and control of communicable disease conditions | - Display essential measures for preventing and controlling infectious cases (environmental sanitation, active and passive immunization, isolation of cases, tracing of contacts .. etc. |
- Health-educational advice | - Propagate essential and primitive primary health care educational guidance (specially in regard to safe water, immunization program, and MCH services). |
- Building a positive relationship with families. | - Practice the initiation and continuity of an active relationship with clients and their family |
- Notification and referral services of dangerous diseases | - Identify critical cases, practice notification activities, and refer cases according to indication |
- Referral of chronic disease | - Put criteria of referral, identify its presence, practice referral measures, and follow up cases to ensure continuity of health care |