Post Graduate Diploma in Family Medicine for recent MBBS Graduates Course

The Christian Medical College, Vellore, seeks to be a witness to the healing ministry of Christ, through excellence in education, service and research. A distinguishing and unique feature of the Christian Medical College Vellore (CMC) is its linkage with the large and widespread network of mission hospitals located mainly in semi-urban and rural areas aiming to serve disadvantaged communities. With inpatient strengths of between 20 and 200 beds, these hospitals deliver broad based clinical services to their local communities. The majority of students in CMC are sponsored by these hospitals and have undertaken to serve in them for two years immediately after graduation. CMC recognizes that its medical graduates face arduous challenges and difficulties during this service period but also that this can be a unique learning experience for them. The Post Graduate Diploma in Family Medicine course is a diploma awarded by CMC after completion of the PGDFM course. This is CMC s response to the challenge of equipping the MBBS graduates, from CMC and other medical colleges for competent and satisfying engagement with secondary level health care while also availing of its educational opportunities. The graduates face a variety of other problems such as academic and social isolation, lack of opportunity for learning, difficulty in translating learning from a tertiary care level to secondary level, lack of procedural skill competence and administrative problems. The Course was started in 2007 as a one year Fellowship Program, the Fellowship in Secondary Hospital Medicine and then upgraded to the Post Graduate Diploma in Family Medicine in 2010 and the duration is increased to 18 months.

OBJECTIVES

On completion of the PGDFM Course the candidate will:
1) Be proficient in broad based multi-competent secondary level care centre with a high volume of outpatient work and the handling of demanding emergencies.
2) Be skillful in a variety of medical and surgical procedures in the diverse fields of medicine.
3) Have a distinctive orientation characteristic of Family Medicine.


PGDFM for recent MBBS Graduates Course Prospectus 2024

PGDFM for recent MBBS Graduates Course Application 2024


Contact Us :
Medical Education Department,
1st Floor, New Examination Hall,
Bagayam, CMC, Vellore-632002.
Phone : 8300031268.