Community Medicine
Study facts
| Course code | MEDSAM |
| ECTS credits | 14 |
| Teaching begins | Spring, Autumn |
| Number of semesters | 1 |
| Teaching language | Norwegian |
| Study level | Postgraduate Courses |
| Resources | |
| Belongs to | Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care |
Contact
Contact Information
Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care
E-mail: studie@isf.uib.no
Course coordinator: Kjell Haug
e-mail: Kjell.Haug@isf.uib.no
Aim and Content
The aim of the course is to give the students knowledge about
- How circumstances in the community influence the general health in different groups in the population, and how the public health influences the social conditions
- Disease preventing measures in different groups in the population
- The relationship between work and health, and how work related health problems can be prevented
- How the health care system is being administrated, organized and financed
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
After completing the course, the students should be able to
- explain the most important methods in preventive medicine and strategies targeted at different groups and environments
- explain elements in working life that may influence health
- explain the impact of a good occupational health anamnesis
- explain how to prevent work related diseases, and hold knowledge about laws and rules in force at the workplace
- explain social inequities in health
- explain social health determinants
- explain the composition and organization of, and direction and interaction in the health care system
- explain the welfare system
- explain the laws and rules that regulate the health care system
- explain how political, socioeconomic and sociocultural circumstances influence health and health care
Skills
After completing the course, the students should be able to
- evaluate the utility value of different disease preventing measures on group level
- be familiar with the principles on how to prevent work related diseases, corresponding to laws and rules at the workplace
- perform patient interviews about work and health
- perform environmentally targeted preventive health care in practice, including work as a company physician
- perform a sociomedical anamnesis
General skills
After completing the course, the students should be able to
- understand how political, socioeconomic and sociocultural circumstances influence the health relations in the community
- understand the interaction between the relations in working life and the health conditions in the community
Course offered (semester)
Autumn and spring
Course Unit Level
Medicine (Integrated profession study- Cand.med. -degree programme)
Teaching Methods
113 weeks of teaching in general practice and public health.
Lectures, patient presentations, problem based group work with plenary discussions, period of supervised work placement with a general practitioner.
The course is integrated with general practice medicine in the general practice and public health term in the sixth year of studying. 13 weeks full time study
Compulsory Requirements
Group work with plenary presentations and multiple choice test in work related medicine
Compulsory Requirements
Three group assignments with a plenary presentation (occupational medicine, preventive and social medicine.). Two individual assignments (preventive and social security system). participation in group-based discussions on evaluation of working environments (occupational medicine) and an passed multiple choice test in occupational medicine
Assessment methods
Written exam
Grading Scale
Grading scale A-F