To provide community-oriented medical education with a focus on research, leadership, and management skills to address issues of public health in both urban and rural areas
- To teach community medicine to graduate cadre of people concerned with the prevention of disease, the determinants and natural history of disease in populations, and the influence of the environment and of society on health and disease who will enter the service of the community to maintain and improve the high standard of health in nations.
- To produce medical graduates to meet community health needs and demands of the country
- To impart knowledge and better understanding of the causes of disease, knowledge about germs, relationship of nutrition and illness, and progress in the science of epidemiology
Identify health needs and problems of the community and prioritize them. - Take measures to meet health needs and problems
- Provide comprehensive health care to the community
- Organize health education sessions at the level of community
- Collect and compile sociodemographic data from the community
- Conduct community-based research work and write report
Bangladesh University of Health Sciences (BUHS) is a recently established University (starting journey in December 2012) created around the nucleus formed by the Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences (BIHS). Affiliated with the Dhaka University and owned by the Diabetic Association of Bangladesh (DAB) BIHS (established in 2007), within its short span of lifetime, already attracted national and international attention due to its high-quality postgraduate education and research activities in public health disciplines. Department of Community Medicine is one of them under the faculty of Public Health in BUHS which was established under BIHS in 2007. Initially this department started its journey under BIHS with two courses namely 1 year Master of Public Health in Noncommunicable Diseases and 2 years Master of Philosophy in Noncommunicable Diseases with the affiliation of University of Dhaka from 2007 to 2009 with the support of University of Oslo. From July 2010 to July 2012 session same courses were offered with the affiliation of BSMMU under this department with the same facility support.
At present this department is involved with three types of activities, namely Academic/ teaching, Research and Training. This department is most renowned in this university due to its competent teaching and various research activities with the support of different funding organization including BMRC and Ministry of Science and Technology of Government of Bangladesh.
At present, under this department one and half years masters’ course (Masters in Community Medicine) is available in BUHS.
More than forty national and international (India, Nepal and Pakistan) students completed of their MPH and MPhil degree successfully from this department. Now graduate from this department are working in various reputed national and international organization including ICDDR, B.
The department recently launch Post-graduate Certificate in Family Medicine (PGCFM).
The department also has future plan to initiate some other certificate courses and training. The Certificate Programs are focused on academic training in specific areas of public health which is under construction at this moment. This will be an innovative online program that will be designed for public health professionals.
Department of Community Medicine of BUHS is ready to welcome all the national and international students for building up their glorious carrier in Public Health.
- Recognize concept of Community Medicine and Public Health including its evolution, dimensions and determinants.
- Conceptualize community as the focus of the lifetime multidimensional service of a doctor and be ready to help in time of need, minimize the suffering of people and have the ability to “think globally and act locally”.
- Identify and prioritize health issues concerning different communities and segments of population in particular.
- State the role of different national and international health organizations rendering health care service at large including the activities of different community health care programs addressing the vulnerable groups
