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Field Practice - I

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Course Type Course Code No. Of Credits
Discipline Core SPG2PH501 4

Course Coordinator and Team: Samik Chowdhury & N. Nakkeeran

Email of course coordinator: samik@aud.ac.in

Pre-requisites: None

Aim:  The course aims to provide students with exposure to public health practice. This will be in the form of weekly or fortnightly visits to selected public health agencies such as health care delivery institutions, offices of local self-governments or autonomous bodies with public health related functions like water supply, sanitation, drainage, pest control, food safety, birth and death registration, sites such as wet-markets, landfills, water-treatment plants, organic farms, emission control stations etc., communities, and sites where civil society organisations are implementing programs. This will be supervised and coordinated by faculty members.

Course Outcomes:

  • To undertake activities that helps to observe / apply / reflect class room learning in the field
  • To make public health related observation that can be brought to the class-room for discussion and reflection

Brief description of modules/ Main modules:

Students, either alone or in small groups will visit one or more community setting or a public health agency for a minimum of 4 full days or 8 half-days in the semester. Each student will maintain a journal for noting field observations. At the end of the semester students may be asked to submit this journal for assessment or may be asked to make presentation that will form part of the assessment for this course. In addition, teachers teaching other courses in this semester may also give small assessments that may require observations in the field.

Assessment Details with weights:

  • Presentation at the end of the course or periodically (40%)
  • Process component – regularity to field, taking part in presentation, discussions – 20% (This component may have inputs from field agencies if feasible)
  • Field report (40%)

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