comm med

Hi Sowmya and Karim,

Need some information from you and your batch on Community Medicine.

I've received some feedback from M107 and we'll be making some amendments to the schedule for your batch but I'd still need your input. Basically for Comm Med, currently the rough schedule is 2 days lecture followed by 3 days household survey or clinic research. Then you'll need to do a presentation 5 days later and submit a 40-60 pages report 3 weeks after that.

Feedback from M107 was that the time given to write the report was too short, so we'll be extending the time given from 3 weeks to 4 weeks. Also, for household survey, a lot of the M107 finished their household survey in a day or two, so in the end they didn't want to go for the third day, which was quite a problem because Prof. Yadav already made the arrangements with the buses and all, so he kindly asked if your batch would like to reduce the 3 days allocated for survey & research to 2 days instead, and an additional 1 day for write up or planning. However, that would mean that if you all are unable to complete the survey within the two days, you will have to make your own transport arrangements for the third day.

I think your batch will need to consider the following:

1. Would you like to have an additional day for planning (before the survey) or write-up (after the survey)

2. Do you want to rush through the household survey & how small do you want to split the groups for household survey. Smaller groups means you'll be able to complete the task faster and easier, but it will be more dangerous to travel in smaller groups. Last year, two girls were mugged while doing the household survey. Household survey can be very tiring and for everyone to go together is very tedious, but it's really up to your group.

Bear in mind that you are suppose to cover 250 houses for the household survey, in a group of about 15 to 20 people. It might seem daunting at first but some in M107 managed to cover all of them in 1 day. Mezhen also said that her group had a few problems in their data collection which could have been rectified had they had more time to plan.

Sowmya and Karim, I think it's best we seek the opinions of your batchmate and then decide which is best. Can you set up a poll or something on your blog? Or just tell me what's the general consensus will do. Get back to me if you need any more information yeah. Preferably give me your decision by Thursday if it's possible okay? Thanks.

Warmest regards,
Jodie