http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2800915/
In spite of the impressive advances made in the field of
Community Medicine in India, there is considerable confusion over its
role in the future. As you have rightly pointed out in your editorial by
Rajesh Kumar (Academic Community Medicine in 21st Century:
Challenges and Opportunities), academic growth in this subject can take
either of these two directions, namely, Family Medicine or Public
Health.
Moreso, this urgency to choose a direction
arises because, here in the United Kingdom from where this subject had
started, does not have it now. Here Family Medicine is General Practice
for which in residency training, postings in conventional clinical
subjects like Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Pediatrics,
and Psychiatry is required. Moreover, the demand for Public Health is
supplied with graduates from diverse backgrounds and not just medicine.
This gives a richness of experience to those who are in this field. Even
the postgraduate medical residency training programs and fellowship and
membership examinations in the Faculty of Public Health (FPH) in the
Royal Colleges are open to those who do not have medicine as a subject
in graduation. Read More
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2800915/
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