Family and Community Medicine Department

Department Name: Family and Community Medicine

Vision:

The Family and Community Medicine Department attempt to enable students in the College of Medicine to understand the true value of applying the fundamental principles of family and community medicine in order to solve community health problems.

Mission:

The mission of the Family and Community Medicine Department is to enable undergraduate students in the College of Medicine to visualize the importance of individual, family, and community health, with an emphasis on the most common community health problems. This is achieved by developing students’ intellectual, behavioral, and practical skills to comprehend these problems and actively participate in their resolution.

Objectives:

At the end of the academic program for the Family and Community Medicine Department, the undergraduate medical student will be able to identify the cognitive components of the following subjects:

General epidemiology and evidence-based medicine.
Non-communicable chronic diseases.
Maternal and Child Health Programs.
Primary Health Care and Programs of the Iraqi Ministry of Health.
Health Administration
Occupational and environmental diseases.
Diseases resulting from malnutrition.
Health management.
Medical sociology.
Medical communication skills.
Medical statistics.
Global health problems and the International Classification of Diseases.
Principles and concepts of family medicine.
Common diseases in family medicine.
Medical Research.

The Department Family and Community Medicine Tasks

The Family and Community Medicine Department contributes to building a healthy and aware society capable of dealing with daily health challenges through education, prevention, and sustainable healthcare to achieve the goals of sustainable development through:

Education and Training:

Undergraduate Students: The role of the Family and Community Medicine Department is to enable undergraduate medical students to envision the importance of individual, family, and community health, with an emphasis on the most common community health problems. It starts with teaching students the medical communication skills that enable them to develop students’ intellectual, behavioral, and practical skills to understand these problems and ethically and actively participate in solving them. This is accomplished
through teaching Family Medicine and Community Medicine courses in the third, fourth, and fifth stages, both theoretically and practically.
The Department also focuses on developing students’ scientific research skills by preparing them to conduct medical and health research.
Postgraduate Students: The Department’s faculty members are concerned with supervising postgraduate students in the Master of Community Medicine, the Higher Diploma in Family Medicine, and the Fellowship of the Iraqi Board for Medical Specialties. The doctoral program in Community Medicine has also been reinstated. The research of postgraduate students focuses on studying the health reality of the community and topics related to the development of the health reality and primary healthcare services.

Scientific Research Activities:

The Family and Community Medicine Department is the main center for scientific research in medical colleges. It focuses on developing scientific research skills and improving innovative strategies to enhance the health of individuals and communities. Research in this field is characterized by its integration of the medical perspective with social and environmental factors. Medical research addresses community problems and finds appropriate solutions through conducting field studies, applied research, population research, and the use of modern information technology to achieve the goals of sustainable development.

Participation in Community Service:

The Family and Community Medicine Department plays a major role in promoting public health through the initiatives and services it provides to the community. This role aims to achieve effective communication between the college and the community to improve the quality of healthy life and increase health awareness.

Other Activities:

The Department provides various innovative services in multiple fields according to health or scientific needs by offering research or scientific consultations, or through scientific and administrative committees within or outside the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, in order to achieve the desired community integration.

Name : Dr. Humam Ghanim Ibrahim Zubeer

Academic Title : Professor

Position : Dean College of Medicine

Email : [email protected]

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Name: Dr. Omaima Abdulrazzq Ibrahim Mohammad Zubair

Academic Title : Assistant Professor

Position : Head of Department

Email : [email protected]

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Name : Dr. Najlaa Ibrahim Mahmoud Ali Al-Sammak

Academic Title : Assistant Professor