Twenty-four students of Year 4 clerkship group were assigned the task to develop health slogans / messages in groups on the curriculum themes of ComHS to be delivered in 8 weeks clerkship. These themes are: Obesity, Family planning, Healthy eating (My plate), Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, Pollution (Environmental Health) & Child Health. The students were asked...Read More

The 10th Annual Public Health Conference was held on 2nd December 2019 at Health Services Academy near NIH, Chak Shahzad Islamabad. The visit was supervised by the Head of the Department of Community Health Sciences Prof. Dr Zahid Naeem and Associate Professor Dr. Sajida Naseem along with Dr Saima Rafi, Dr Fozia Tahir and Dr...Read More

On Wednesday December 04 2019, students of the Community Health Sciences clerkship class of 2021 in wake of International Day of Differently Able Persons 2019 visited the “Care For Special Persons Foundation”, a private school run by an NGO. HOD ComHS, Prof. Dr Zahid Naeem and Associate Professor Dr Sajida Naeem along with Dr Saima...Read More

Students of Year 2 Class of 2023 visited Mashal Model School Nurpur Shahan near Bari Imam which is school of street children on 17th and 18th Dec 2019. Mashal Model School is a non-profit organization established in 2008 with the Government of Pakistan providing education and guidance to under privileged children from different parts of...Read More

As part of the community medicine curriculum, MBBS students, year 4 visited Rural Health Center (RHC) Tarlai on Wednesday, 18th December, 2019 under supervision of Dr Umme Kulsoom Khattak. The purpose of the visit was to see the working of the primary health care in government setup. Expanded program of immunization, laboratory services, lady health workers...Read More

E-poster presentations of Year 2 class of 2023 were held on 24 December 2019 in the module of Nutrition and Metabolism run by Dr Sumreena Mansoor, Associate Professor, Biochemistry department. The event was supervised by Department of ComHS which include Dr. Sajida Naseem Associate Professor, Dr. Mansoor Ahmed Qazi, Dr. Saima Rafi, Dr. Fozia Tahir...Read More

Students of Year 4 Batch 5, Class of 2021 attending the clerkship of Community Health Sciences visited SOS Children’s village in Islamabad on January 9, 2020. This educational trip was organized by Dr. Fozia Tahir, Dr. Hiba Choudhry andDr. Ghanwa Bareach Qazi. The objective of the visit was to develop empathy among medical students through...Read More

As part of community health sciences clerkship, year 4 MBBS students visited Rural Health Center (RHC) Tarlai on January 22, 2020 under the supervision of Dr. Umme Kulsoom Khattak. The objective of this visit was to familiarize students with the working of primary health care center in the semi-urban setting of Islamabad. The students were first...Read More

In line with the national plantation drive, STMU contributed to this cause by planting 150 fruit trees saplings by undergraduate medical students of Year 1 and 4, under supervision of Department of Community Medicine, Shifa College of Medicine. SCM students contributed generously for procurement of these fruit tree saplings.The plantation drive was carried out at...Read More

In order to promote affective learning in the context of chronic kidney diseases, Year 2 medical students had a two days’ visit to Dialysis Unit in SIH on 2nd and 3rd of March, 2020. This was organized by the Department of Community Medicine in collaboration with KUB module director Prof. Dr. Riffat Shafi, HOD of Physiology at...Read More