Family and Community Medicine Branch

The word of the head of the branch:

The Community Medicine Branch in the College of Medicine is one of the medical branches of utmost importance for teaching and training students in the methods and arts of preventive, social and family medicine. It aims to arm students and medical staff with theoretical and practical applied information in all aspects of preventive medicine, as this subject is of great importance in predicting diseases and averting their risks before they occur, then studying their epidemiology and methods of controlling them even after they occur. The universities of the world have given this branch great importance, and our university has also worked with great support from the university president and the dean.

The vision of the branch:

The Community Medicine Branch seeks to develop theoretical, practical and field scientific knowledge among students of the College of Medicine regarding the preventive, therapeutic, social and psychological aspects of common diseases in our Iraqi society and our international environment, and for the doctor who graduates from the initial studies in our college to be well armed with this information and skills that qualify him to take his leading role in confronting pathological, psychological and social scourges in the future. The branch also seeks, through interaction with the community, to increase health awareness among the general public through organized health campaigns and field trips sponsored and conducted by the branch’s professors and students.

Branch’s mission:

One of the main elements of the mission of the Community Medicine Branch in the College of Medicine is to work to meet one of the most important goals on which the college was established, which is to qualify the student academically and scientifically in a way that is fully consistent with the requirements of society and the family in particular and directly.

Branch objectives:

The educational process: By qualifying the student scientifically and academically according to what modern medical education has reached, and for the graduate to be successful in the scientific, practical and research field.

Scientific research: This is done through scientific research by faculty members and through a single team of professors and students in the field of scientific health field research during health campaigns for villages and towns affiliated with the governorate.

The branch also seeks to establish specialized laboratories in the field of communicable and non-communicable diseases, a laboratory for nutrition and nutritional health, and a laboratory for medical statistics and vital statistics.

1- Qualifying the medical student, through theoretical lectures, field and practical medical campaigns in primary care health centers, to take the initiative in his practical future in these aspects that are the cornerstone of preventing diseases and epidemics in society.

2- Keeping pace with the global scientific medical process by reviewing the latest developments in the field of community medicine through modern books, periodicals, the information network, and exchanging experiences and visits with community medicine professors at other local and international universities. Such as the visit of Dr. Karim Thamer Mashkoor to the University of Kentucky and his meeting with family medicine professors at the university and his knowledge of modern teaching methods and techniques there.

3- An ambitious plan for useful field scientific research related to health and environmental problems in society and issuing and publishing research in reputable scientific journals.

4- Interacting with the community through field visits and continuous scientific seminars and through contacting relevant civil society organizations, other colleges, institutes, teachers’ centers and schools. And membership in relevant specialized committees in the governorate, the university and other departments such as the environment and traffic.

5- The branch aims, after the human and material requirements are prepared, to create postgraduate studies (Masters and PhD) in all specializations of community medicine.

6- The branch also aims to twin with other similar branches inside and outside the country in order to exchange information, experiences and visits, professors and students