📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
🌍 Community Medicine
Fundamentals of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- Define incubation period.
- Define serial interval.
- Define infectivity period.
- Explain the principles of disease eradication and control.
Infection, Host and Transmission
- Define the basic terms related to infectious-disease epidemiology.
- Review the role of the susceptible host in successful parasitism, modes of transmission and the host defence system.
- List and explain the various classifications of communicable diseases, with special reference to the scope and purpose of ICD-10.
- Enlist common infectious diseases affecting the population of Pakistan as per the National Institute of Health Pakistan.
- Explain the effects of climate change and seasonal variation on specific diseases globally and in Pakistan.
- Explain the role of personal hygiene and PPE in infection control.
Carriers, Reservoirs, Disinfection and Communicable Disease Control
- Define disease carriers.
- Explain reservoirs of infection.
- Differentiate sterilization from disinfection.
- Explain the types and procedures of disinfection.
- Discuss communicable-disease control measures aimed at the agent, host and others, including administrative and vector-control measures.