📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
🌍 Community Medicine
Immunization
- Discuss immunizing agents.
- Explain hazards associated with immunization.
- Explain the cold chain in the context of immunization.
Vaccination
- Explain the importance of vaccination in controlling infectious diseases.
- Describe basic principles of vaccination.
- Classify major types of vaccines with examples.
- Describe vaccines associated with adverse reactions.
- Differentiate live attenuated and inactivated vaccines.
- Differentiate vaccination from immunization.
Expanded Programme on Immunization — Pakistan
- Describe community-based strategies for promoting vaccination.
- Explain vaccination programs in Pakistan with particular reference to EPI.
- Describe the EPI schedule of Pakistan.”
- Discuss factors responsible for success and failure of vaccination programs in Pakistan.
