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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & COMMUNITY

MEDICINE

DEGREE: MD degree in Public Health & Preventive Medicine,

Programme Specification

2012-2015 Date:

A-Basic Information

1- Programme Title: MD in Public Health & Preventive Medicine .

2- Final Award: □ MD in Public Health & Preventive medicine .

3- Programme type: Single Double Multiple

4-Responsible Department: Public Health & Community Medicine .

5- Programme duration: 4 academic years

6- Number of Programme Courses: 4courses (CA, MS, PCMD 01and MDTH).

7-Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Wafaa El-Nemr.

Assistant Coordinator: Assistant Prof. Dr. Mona Aboserea

8-External evaluators: Prof .Dr/ Yousif Wahib (Suez Canal University)

9-Last date of programme specifications approval:

10- Programme management team:

Prof/ Prof. Dr/ Mahmoud El Saadawy

Prof/ Wafaa El Nemr

Prof/ Ghada Elsharkawy

Assistant Prof dr. Sohair Hagag

Assistant Prof. dr. / Mona Mostafa Aboserea

Dr. Eman wally

الزقازيق جامعة

كلية الطب

Zagazig University

Faculty of Medicine

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B-Professional Information:

1-Programme aims:

The aim of this programme is to build the competencies of the academic staff

members, to undertake comprehensive up-to-date practices of Public Health and

Preventive Medicine in a professional manner, to apply basics and strategies of

scientific research and to gain the aquired awareness with recent advances in Public

Health & Preventive Medicine and their ….applications .

2- Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs):

By the end of the MD programme in Public Health &Preventive Medicine the

candidate will be able to:

A- Knowledge and Understanding

KU1. Define health, determinants of health, disease, community medicine &

general medicine and the importance of community medicine.

KU2. Explain research methodology & Study statistics and vital rates.

KU3. Discuss different terminology in epidemiology of communicable diseases,

non-communicable diseases and different methods of prevention & control.

KU4. Discuss social science & its relation to health.

KU5. Describes different nutrients and its relation to health and disease.

KU 6. Discuss advances in public health.

KU 7. Explain health care management and quality principles & tools.

KU 8. Describe different health care systems in Egypt, the policy of ministry of

health and population.

KU 9. Discuss different causes of insanitary environment & its hazards on health

status.

KU10. Identify occupational hazards on health & different programs in prevention

and control of these health hazards.

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KU11. Explain the basics and ethics of scientific research and public health

branches.

KU12. Describes Violence, smoking, globalization, and poverty and their impact

on health and genetics in public health .

KU13. Discuss the infection control strategies in various settings.

B: Intellectual Skills

IS1. Design different research studies.

IS2. Analyze and interpret different statistical data.

IS 3. Plan program for managing an epidemic or outbreak.

IS 4. Plan different programs for prevention and control of communicable and non-

communicable diseases.

IS 5. Calculate and interpret different measures of diseases burden.

IS 6. Apply principles of communication skills in dealing with different situations.

IS 7. Conduct health education programs for different health problems.

IS 8. Design nutritional programs for different age groups & health problems.

IS 9. Apply management programs in different health care services for improving

its performance & outcome indicators.

IS10. Conduct prioritization process for selecting different health problem for

intervention.

IS11: Apply different quality tools in problem solving and decision making.

IS12. Conduct program for disaster management & prevention and control of

environmental & occupational health hazards.

IS13. Apply hospital infection control program.

C- Professional/practical skills

PS1.Work effectively in a team .

PS2.Deal with students, colleagues, health care team, and the community.

PS3. Apply & conduct communication skills in all situations.

PS4 Write & evaluate of professional reports and proper interpretation .

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D- General &Transferable skills

GS1. Develop & make database search in the library & internet.

GS2. Discuss freely….. most of medical problem.

GS3. Use information and communication technology effectively.

GS4. Solve problems related to work management and among colleagues.

GS5. Practice the different types of effective communication.

GS6. Evaluate him/herself and assess the personal educational needs.

GS7. Use different resources to gain knowledge and information.

GS8. Develop rules and indicators to evaluate the performance of others.

GS9. Work in a team and lead teams in different professional situation.

GS10. Manage the time effectively.

GS11. Learn by self and in a continuous manner.

3. Academic standards:

3a. Generic academic Standards of Postgraduate Programmes prepared by National

Authority of Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education (NAQAAE).

المعاييرالقياسية العامة لبرامج الدراسات العليا التي أعدتها الهيئة القومية لضمان جودة التعليم واالعتماد

(2009) فبراير

3b. External reference (Benchmarks) (attached): MD Course in public health

Tufts University USA

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3c. Matrices:

i- Comparison between the ILOs of the Faculty of Medicine Zagazig university

MD in Public Health & preventive medicine programme and that of the

Generic Academic standards of postgraduate programmes prepared by

National Authority of Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education.

Generic academic standards of MD

programme

العامة لبرامج الدراسات العليا األكاديمية المعايير

( دكتوراهبرامج ال )

ILOs of the MD

in Public Health

& preventive

medicine

programme

Faculty of

medicine Zagazig

University

Remarks

المعرفة و الفهم 1-

ي النظريات و األساسيات المتعلقة بمجال التعلم و كذا ف -أ

المجاالت ذات العالقة

التأثير المتبادل بين الممارسات المهنية و انعكاسها -ب

.التطورات العلمية في مجال التخصص -‎ت

المبادئ األخالقية و القانونية للممارسة المهنية في -ث

.مجال التخصص

مبادئ و أساسيات الجودة في الممارسات المهنية -‎ج

.في مجال التخصص

و أخالقيات البحث العلمي أساسيات -‎ح

KU1, KU2, KU3,

KU4, KU5, KU9,

KU10

KU7,KU13

KU6, KU12

KU11

KU8

KU11

100 % is fulfilled

المهارات الذهنية

تحليل و تقييم المعلومات في مجال التخصص و -‎أ

.القياس عليها لحل المشاكل

حل المشاكل المتخصصة مع عدم توافر بعض -‎ب

المعطيات

‎ت‎- الربط بين المعارف المختلفة لحل المشاكل

.المهنية

أو كتابة دراسة علمية \ةاجراء دراسة بحثي -‎ث

IS1, IS2, IS5

IS3, IS4

IS6, IS7, IS8

IS1

100% is fulfilled

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.ل مشكلة بحثيةلحمنهجية

تقييم المخاطر في الممارسات المهنية في مجال -‎ج

.التخصص

.التخطيط لتطوير األداء في مجال التخصص -‎ح

.نية متنوعةأتخاذ القرارات المهنية في سياقات مه -‎خ

IS12

IS9

IS11

المهارات المهنية

اتقان المهارات المهنية األساسية و الحديثة في -‎أ

.مجال التخصص

.كتابة و تقييم التقارير المهنية -‎ب

الطرق و األدوات القائمة في مجال تقييم -‎ت

التخصص

PS1

PS4

PS3

100% is fulfilled

المهارات العامة و المتنقلة

التواصل الفعال بأنواعه المختلفة -‎أ

استخدام تكنولوجيا المعلومات بما يخدم الممارسة -‎ب

.المهنية

التقييم الذاتي و تحديد احتياجاته التعليمية -‎ت

.الشخصية

استخدام المصادر المختلفة للحصول علي -‎ث

.جاته التعليمية الشخصيةاحتيا

.و ضع قواعد و مؤشرات تقييم أداء األخرين -‎ج

العمل في فريق و قيادة فرق في سياقات مهنية -‎ح

.مختلفة

.إدارة الوقت بكفاءة -‎خ

.التعلم الذاتي و المستمر -‎د

GS5

GS3

GS6

GS7

GS8

GS9

GS10

GS1, GS11

100% is fulfilled

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ii- Comparison between the ILOs of the MD Programme in Public Health &

Preventive Medicine Faculty of medicine, Zagazig University and MD Course

in public health Tufts University USA (the course is divided into 4 years).

MD programme Tufts

University USA (2012)

ILOs in MD in public

health & preventive

medicine programme

Faculty of medicine,

Zagazig University

Approximate

achievable ILOs

1-Public Health & Health Services

(CMPH124)

KU8, KU6, KU7

IS7, IS9, IS11

GS8

80 %

2-Introduction to Epidemiology

CMPH130

KU2, KU3,

IS1, IS3, IS4

75%

3- Biostatistics

CMPH132

KU2

IS2, IS5

100%

4-Introduction to Occupational &

Environmental Health

CMPH203

KU9, KU10

IS12

90%

5-Social & Behavioral Sciences

CMPH218

KU4

IS6, IS7

GS5

100%

6-Public Health Field Experience CMPH208

IS10,

GS2, GS4, GS9

Field visits with the

students & during

8

campaigns

7-Applied Learning Experience CMPH453

KU11,

PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4

GS10, GS11

Writing proposal for

any research project

8-Public Health Theory to Practice CMPH140

(PROGRAM RQUIREMENT)

KU1 40%

9-Healthcare Organization:

Budgeting & Management CMPH236

(PROGRAM REQUIREMENT)

KU7,

IS10, IS11

60%

2-3 elective topic in Public health in

the 3rd & 4th years of the course ----- ------

* NB: Tufts University Programme of MD degree in Public Health is coded

in topics not ILOs.

4- Programme structure:

Course Units Teaching

hours

weeks Academic year

CA

MS

PCMD 01 3 54 27 1st part

PCMD 02 8 160 70 2nd

part

MDTH 1 280 70 2nd

Part

Total 12 494hours 167 weeks

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5. Programme courses

No of

weeks

No of hours Title Units Code

No. total Practical Theoretical

& seminars

12weeks 24 10 14 Medical statistics 1

3 weeks 6 2 4 Research

methodology

2

12 weeks 24 8 16 Computer &

internet

3

2 week 3 1 2 General 4

7 weeks 15 6 9 Medical statistics 1

4 weeks 10 3 7 Research

methodology

2

3weeks 6 6 Computer 3

14weeks 38 16 22 Epidemiology &

infection control

5

7 weeks 8 4 12 Sociology 6

9 weeks 20 6 14 Nutrition 7

9 weeks 21 7 14 Management &

health services

8

8 weeks 16 4 12 Environmental

health

9

2 weeks 4 2 2 Occupational health 10

5 weeks 11 5 6 Miscellaneous 11

70 weeks 280 Research (thesis) in

public health

12 MDTH

167 weeks 494 12 Total

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6- Comparison between the ILOS of the MD programme in Public health

and its courses (PCMD 01, PCMD 02and MDTH).

Items Programme of

MD in Public

Health

PCMD 01 PCMD 02 MDTH

Knowledge and

Understanding

KU1 KU1, KU2 --

KU2 KU1-KU9 KU3 to

KU11

--

KU3 -- KU 12 to

KU19

KU1

KU4 -- KU 20 to KU

24

KU2

KU5 -- KU25 to KU

30

--

KU6 -- KU54 KU6

KU7 -- KU31 ,

KU32

--

KU8 -- KU 33 to KU

42

--

KU9 -- KU 43-47 KU3

KU10 -- KU 48-50 --

KU11 -- -- KU11

KU12 -- KU51-54 KU12

Intellectual

Skills

IS1 IS1, IS2, IS10 IS10, IS14,

IS7

IS1,

IS2 , IS3, IS4, IS5,

IS6, IS7, IS8,

IS9, IS11

IS1, 2, 3, 4,

5, 6, 9, 11,

12, 13, 14

IS2

IS3 -- IS16. 18, 33 --

IS4 -- IS18.19 IS3

IS5 IS5 IS3, 17, IS21 IS5

IS6 --- IS22 IS6

IS7 --- IS 23-26 --

IS8 --- IS 23-26 --

IS 9 --- IS 27, 28 --

IS10 IS30 --

IS11 IS27 --

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IS12 IS31, 34, 35 --

Professional/

practical skills

PS1 -- PS1 PS1

PS2 -- PS2 PS2

PS3 PS1, PS2, PS3 PS3 PS3

PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4

General

&Transferable

skills

GS1 PS5 GS1 GS1

GS2 GS1 GS4 GS2

GS3 GS4 GS5 GS3

GS4 GS5 GS7 --

GS5 GS7 GS5 --

GS6 GS5 GS4 GS5

GS7 GS4 GS2 GS4

GS8 GS2 GS3 --

GS9 GS3 GS6 GS6

GS10 GS6 PS5 GS7

Gs11 PS5 GS6 GS8

7- MD Programme admission requirements

Obtain Master Degree in Public Health & preventive medicine (MSc).

8- Regulations for progression and programme completion

At the end of 1st Academic Year (PCMD 01)

* Fulfillment of the of log book (Attendance, effective discussion in seminars,

performance in practical lab and summer activity).

* Pass Examination of the course of prerequisite.

2nd

, 3rd

& 4th

Academic Years (PCMD 02& MDTH):

Prerequistite: - passing the written exam of publ 11 course Registration of the

MD thesis protocol.

*Registration for Public health (MDTH).

*Pass examination of course PCMD 02.

* Perform the MD thesis in new area of PUBLIC HEALTH (MDTH): fulfillment

of the supervisors report every 3 months.

* perform a seminar about the thesis results.

* Acceptance of the MD thesis from judgment committee nominated by

department council after public discussion & publication of scientific paper

from the thesis is a must for awarding the MD degree .

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9- Evaluation of programme intended learning outcomes

Evaluator Tool Sample

1- Exams results Results analysis

Report

All the students

2- Students Questionnaires All the students

3-Graduates after achieving MD

degree

Questionnaires –

group discussion

10 at least

4-S

tak

eho

lder

s

*- teaching staff.

*- Technicians.

*- Regional medical institutes

*- International medical

institutes.

*- other Governmental

faculties

*- Non governmental faculties

Interviews

Internet contact

Phone calls

Questionnaires

10 at least

5-External Evaluator Questionnaires

6-Others(If Present):

COMMUNITY

MOHP (ministry of health

and population)

Health insurance

Teaching hospitals

Health care services

Questionnaires

, indepth-

interviews, and

Focus group

discussion

Volunteers

from the

community,

Leaderships &

top

management

team at

MOHP,

Health care

providers at

health

insurance &

health care

services.

10- References: Ahmed R. El-Kashmery (2003-2004): computer & internet for medical

students basic skills. Brief notes on Community medicine books (fourth year medical students);

2011-2012.

Betty Kirkwood, and Jonathen Sterne (1988): Essential medical statistics

(2nd

edition).

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Brett J. Cassens (1998): Preventive medicine & public health. Middle east

edition.

http://www.amazon.com/Maxey-Rosenau-Last-Public-Health-Preventive-

Medicine fifteen edition./dp/0071441980/ref=dp_ob_title_bk/188-1942931-

7800068.

Rebecaa G.K, & M. Clinton M. (2000): Clinical epidemiology &

biostatistics. MIDDLE EAST EDITION. THE NATIONAL MEDICAL

SERIES FOR INDEPENDENT STUDY.

Theodoreh. T, & Elena . A. V. (2000): The new public health; AN

introduction for the 21st century.

www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/leadership/bloland.htm: Control of

Communicable Diseases (last edition).

-SUGGESTED MATERIALS:

Soft discs for community medicine topics at CD.

Browsing web sites for Public health: www.Zu.edu.eg, Entrez pubmed

Medical journals.: Am J public health, Bulletin in Public health , WHO sites

(WHO.org) & articles,

Environmental health journals.

Web sites for medical statistics

Pub Med (National library of Medicine)

Search engines & internet

11- Supports for Candidates and their Learning:

Candidates and their learning are supported in a number of ways:

Printed copies of the programme and Public health courses (Candidates aware of

the ILOs and requirement of the MD degree in Public health).

Availability of University central liberary.

Availability of the Faculty postgraduate library

Availability of the Department Postgraduate library.

Availability of the faculty digital liberary.

Availability of the other educational resources included in every course.

Supervisors of the MD thesis (three Staff members according to the research

specialty for each candidate)

12- Methods used for improving the programme: Peer teaching observations and feedback to the programme management team and the

coordinator (written reports at the end of the courses).

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Faculty appointed external examiners.

Candidates evaluation of teaching (Questionnaires & checklist).

Contact with Tufts University USA for their support & evaluation.

13- Committee with responsibility for monitoring and evaluating quality: Internal Evaluators:

1- Prof. Dr. Amany Rashad Abosoud.

2- Member from Quality unit in the faculty.

External Evaluator :

Prof. Dr. Yousif waheeb (Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University)

14- Regulations of assessment by-laws of the MD degree postgraduate of the

Faculty of Medicine:

PCMD 01: 1- Attendance of at least 75% of the teaching courses.

2- Log book fulfilled and approved by the head of the department.

Tools Mark (total

Marks for

MD degree

=500)

Percentage of the total mark

Written exam:

Medical statistics & research methodology

Computer & internet

100

100

20%

20%

Total marks 200 40%

PCMD 02

1- Pass the exam of course Public health 1 (at least 60% of total Mark).

2- Attendance of at least 75% of the teaching courses.

3- Log book fulfilled and approved by the head of the department.

Tools Mark (total

Marks for

MD degree

=500)

Percentage of the total mark

Written exam:

1st paper

2nd paper

100

100

20%

20%

Oral exam 100 20%

Total 300 60%

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NB: Examinations are conducted twice yearly (May & December).

MDTH *- Preregistration seminar

*- Registration of the thesis title.

*- Perform the thesis within at least 6 months of registration.

*- After finishing the MD thesis Candidate perform a seminar about the thesis results.

*- Three progression reports are introduced by each supervisor (one every 3 months).

*- MD thesis acceptance by the supervisors.

*- MD thesis acceptance by the judgment committee in an advertised public session by

three professors including one of the supervisors, one from the faculty and third

from other faculty.

*- Four copies of the thesis must be given to the postgraduate library.

14- Rules for awarding the MD Degree in Public Health:

* Candidates must pass the final exam of course PCMD 01 as a prerequest to registrate the

MD thesis and course PCMD 02.

* Candidates must pass the final exam of course PCMD 02 (at least 60% ).

*MD thesis must be accepted by the judgment committee following Publishing a scientific

paper after attending the final exam of Publ 12 For awarding the MD degree.