Community Medicine/Health Sciences Elective
The elective rotation in Community Medicine will offer components subject to the specific interests of the student at Manitoba Health, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, and/or a rural Manitoba Regional Health Authority site. The learning objectives for the elective as outlined will be flexible in location and duration. The Department is also prepared to help students develop their own objectives pertaining to public/population health that will be negotiated and reviewed with a designated preceptor.
GOAL:
By the end of the elective rotation, the student will have received an exposure to the wide spectrum of Community Medicine and public health activities at the regional, provincial and national levels.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the elective rotation, the student will demonstrate an understanding of and be able to describe:
• Roles of a Provincial Health Department in the context of regionalized health services within the province, as well as its National and Federal/Provincial/Territorial roles.
• Population health assessment, epidemiology, surveillance, government policy development and processes conducted by the various Units in the Public Health Branch and Office of the Chief MOH.
• Legislation relevant to Public Health in Manitoba, and its basis for Medical Officer of Health functions and Public Health Programs.
• Concepts of health, population health, determinants of health, health indicators and health status.
• Principles of risk communication and effective public/media communication.
• Intervention programs to address a public health problem.
• The roles clinicians play in the public health system (e.g. reporting cases and outbreaks of communicable diseases; participating in public health screening programs)
Call Responsibility: No call is required.
GOAL:
By the end of the elective rotation, the student will have received an exposure to the wide spectrum of Community Medicine and public health activities at the regional, provincial and national levels.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the elective rotation, the student will demonstrate an understanding of and be able to describe:
• Roles of a Provincial Health Department in the context of regionalized health services within the province, as well as its National and Federal/Provincial/Territorial roles.
• Population health assessment, epidemiology, surveillance, government policy development and processes conducted by the various Units in the Public Health Branch and Office of the Chief MOH.
• Legislation relevant to Public Health in Manitoba, and its basis for Medical Officer of Health functions and Public Health Programs.
• Concepts of health, population health, determinants of health, health indicators and health status.
• Principles of risk communication and effective public/media communication.
• Intervention programs to address a public health problem.
• The roles clinicians play in the public health system (e.g. reporting cases and outbreaks of communicable diseases; participating in public health screening programs)
Call Responsibility: No call is required.