Course Code: MED 605

Course Name: Public Health ECTS Credits:10

Phase VI

2 Months

Undergraduate Practice: 2 Months

Compulsory Course Language: Turkish

Course Coordinator, Contact details and Office Hours 1: Ahmet Zafer Öztek,MD, Prof., Maltepe University, Faculty of Medicine [email protected] Phone. Ext: 2719 Office Hours: Friday 09:00 – 11:00 Trainers, Communication İnformation and Office Hours: Ahmet Zafer Öztek,MD.,Prof., Maltepe University, Faculty of Medicine [email protected] Phone. Ext: 2719 Office Hours: Friday 09:00 – 11:00 Turhan Şalva MD., Asist. Prof., Maltepe University, Faculty of Medicine [email protected] Phone Ext: 2987 Office Hours: Friday 09:00 – 11:00

General Objectives of the Course:

The aim of the course is; To teach the interns health care system and organization in Turkey, how evaluate the health status and identfy the health problems of the community, how to design and implement plans for controling these problems, how to promote the health status of the community and the general principles of preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services.

Planned Learning Outcomes and Subordinate Skills Students can;       1

Evaluate and interprit the data about health status of the community Understand the principles of primary care Provide preventive services on the individuals Provide preventive services on the environment Practise occupational health care and safety Plan, implemet and evaluate an epidemiological research

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Work within a health team Act as an advocator for public health Communicate with other team members and service providers Organize scientific meetings and projects

General Competencies:               

Productive Rational Questioning Entrepreneur Creative Compliant with ethical rules Respective to discrepancies Socially sensitive Using native language effectively Sensitive to enviorement Using foreign language effectively Compliant to different situations and social roles Capable to team working Using time effectively Critical thinking

Teaching Methods and Techniques:        

Narration Discussion Presentation Workshop Group work Field work Running research Health care practice

Offering type of the Course: Face to face Group work

If applicable the place of Practice: Classroom, primary care units, community heath cate units, factories.

Prerequisite: Succesful completion of the previous year

Other requisites: None

Proposed additional courses: None

Course content At the end of the course the interns will, 1. Through visits and pracice at the health care facilities will observe, learn and understand the provision of primary health care in the country 2. Experince how to design and implement plans for controling community health problems 3. Experince how to design an epidemiological research in the field, collect, analize and interpret data In order to achieve the above objectives the interns visit and work in family physicians unit, community health unit and assist preventive and curative services at these levels.

In coorperation with the personnel at these units the interns practice clinical work, preventive services, immunization, family planning, prenatal and well child care, school health, environmental health services, first aid and recording systems.

Visit district health directorates, MCH centers, municipality health units and learn the health services at these units.

Visit at least one industrial plant and observe occupational health care services.

Through a senario workshop study, experience how to evaluate community health problems and make plans to overcome these problems.

Plan and run an epidemiological research study in the field.

The interns follow theoratical and practical sessions about the topics given below :

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Concept of health and disease Psycosocial factors of health Factors effecting the use of health services Primary health care Health care management Techniques for planning health services Financing health care Human resourses for health Epidemiology

10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.

Health indicators Descriptive and cross-sectional studies Case control and cohord studies Control of communicable diseases Controling epidemics Immunization Controling food and water born diseases Controling air born diseases Controling vector born diseases Controling sexually transmitted diseases Controling zoonotic diseases Maternal and child health care Reproductive health and family planning Healthy life style Community nutrition Healthy aging Control of chronic diseases Air pollution Water pollution Soil pollution Waste disposal School health Physical factors in occupational work places Chemical factors in occupational work places Disaster medicine International health Health information systems and e-health Health education Occupational health Occupational diseases Social medicine

Course category: 1. Basic profession courses

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2. Specialty / subspecialty courses 3. Supporting courses 4. Communicable skills courses 5. Humanity, communication and administrative skills courses Textbook(s)/References/Materials: Textbooks 1.

Güler,Ç., Akın,L. (Ed), Halk Sağlığı Temel Bilgiler, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2012.

2. Wallace RB (Ed), Wallace/Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Fifteenth Edition, McGraw Hill 2007. Further readings:

1. Türkiye Nüfus ve Sağlık Araştırmaları, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Nüfus Etütleri Enstitüsü, Ankara

2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

Bozdemir N, Kara İH (Ed), Birinci Basamakta Tanı ve Tedavi, Nobel Kitapevi, Adana, 2010. Sur H, Palteki T (Ed), Hastane Yönetimi, Nobel Tıp Kitapevi, Ankara, 2013. Hayran O., Sur H (Ed.), Sağlık Hizmetleri El Kitabı, Yüce Yayım, İstanbul, 1998. Öztek Z., Sağlık Hizmetlerinin Sosyalleştirilmesi ve Sağlık Ocağı Yönetimi, Palme Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2004. Bilir N., Yıldız AN, İş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları, Ankara, 2004. Aksakoğlu G. Bulaşıcı Hastalıklarla Savaşım, Üçüncü Yazım, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Yayını, İzmir, 2008. Altıntaş H. (Ed.), Acil ve Afet Durumlarında Sağlık Yönetimi, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları, Ankara, 2013. Tunçok, Y, Kalyoncu Nİ, (Ed.), Birinci Basamağa Yönelik Zehirlenmeler Tanı ve Tedavi Rehberleri, Sağlık Bakanlığı, 2007. Arısoy, ES, (Ed.), Birinci Basmağa Yönelik Tanı ve Tedavi Rehberleri, Sağlık Bakanlığı, 2003. Erkoç Y, Yardım N (Ed.), Türkiye’de Bulaşıcı Olmayan Hastalıklar ve Risk Faktörleri ile Mücadele Politikaları, Sağlık Bakanlığı, 2011. http://saglik.gov.tr http://tuik.gov.tr

Evaluation system Studies during the year

Number

Percentage grade (%)

Attendance

8 weeks

10

Active contubution

10

Laboratory

-

Practice Field work

20

Lesson specific internship (if there is) Homework Epidemilogical research

1

30

Seminars

2

20

Senario workshop

3

10

Lectures and discussions

Mid examination Make-up examination Contribution of studies during the year to the success grade Contribution of term examination to the success grade Total

100

ECTS2 (Student work load table) Duration (hours)

Total work load (hours)

10

10

30

30

40

40

20

40

40

4 weeks

100

100

3 days

15

15

235

235

Performance

Number

Lectures and discussions

10 lectures

Laboratory

-

Practice

-

Lesson specific internship (if there is)

-

Field work

5 days

Study time out of class (pre work, strengthen, etc) Homework / Preparing seminars Presenting seminars Projects (Epidemiyological research) Senario workshop Total

Relationship Between Public Health Internship Course Learning Outcomes and MEDICAL EDUCATION Programme Key Learning Outcomes

Level of assistance No

Program adequacy/output 1

1 2

Describing the normal structure and the functions of the organism

2

3

4

5

X X

Explaining the pathogenesis, clinical and diagnostic criteria of the diseases

3

4

Taking the anamnesis of the patient and making the general and systematic physical examination

X

Treatment of life threatining emergencies and providing the transportation

X

of the patient in necessity 5

Applying the needed basic medical interventions for the diagnosis and

X

treatment of the diseases 6

Applying the preventive and forensic medicine

Files containing ECTS credits and students’ feed-backs should be kept ready to present if asked. As well-known, this year feedbacks about ECTS will be asked from the students and calculations will be made. 2

X

7

X

Having the general knowledge of the structure and operation of the National Health Care System

8 9

Specifying the legal responsibilities and describing the ethical princibles

X

Practising the first step treatment of the basic diseaseas with scientific

X

data, seen freguently in the population 10

11

Organizing and performing the scientific meetings and the projects

X

Knowing a foreign language enough for following the medical literature in

X

order to update the medical knowledge and performing the computerized statistical methods in order to evaluate the scientific studies