This is the thoroughly revised, enlarged and updated edition of the book which covers the practical aspects of community medicine at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It elaborately includes family presentation of water chemistry o spot exercises o exercises related to epidemiology and public health, statistics, microbiology, etc. This book also addresses some other important issues like investigation of an outbreak, thesis protocol, specimen sampling, water sampling, etc. It contains details of visits to health-related places like hospital waste management facility, PHED sewage treatment plant, etc. It includes topics such as - Research Methodology, Biostatistics Research, Proposal, Scientific Writing and Short Term Studentship (STS). The pictorial presentation of the facts enhances its understanding. Community medicine practical also includes sessional which is the daily performance of students that may be accessed through 'logbook', separate logbooks to apprise the work done by the students in their undergraduate/postgraduate tenures have also been published. In the midst of the present-day scenario, when MCI has made compulsory research publication for the faculty of medical colleges, and ICMR is motivating research in medical students through STS.
Topics such as Research Proposal, Scientific Writing, Research Methodology and Biostatistics will be useful to the students as well as the faculty of subjects other than community medicine also.
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