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Educamb University
Research in Epidemiology
Himalayan School of Medical Sciences
Overview
Department of Community Medicine plays a pivotal role in complementing and reinforcing the University manifesto of setting exemplary standards in quality teaching, training & research and particularly instilling a rural bias among students. The department has faculty with excellent credentials in terms of qualification, experience & exposure to academics, applied and field research.
Targeted Research Areas
Health Services Research
Cancer Epidemiology
Cardiovascular Epidemiology
Clinical Epidemiology
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Research Facilities
The department is amply resource- rich as an excellent ‘knowledge hub’ for students perusing post-graduation/doctoral programmes in preventive & social medicine. Infrastructure /facilities include:
Seminar & Demonstration rooms
Public health Research laboratory which is well equipped with dissecting microscopes & entomology slides
Public health museum with 16 models, 142 specimen, 62 charts/Posters
Library that is well stocked with 400+ books and 18 Journals on Community Medicine.
IT enabled communication infrastructure & teaching paraphernalia
Well equipped & appropriately located Rural & Urban Health Training Centres, involved in both training students and providing community based preventive, promotive& curative services.
Service Delivery & Operational Research Profile:
Since inception the department has set exemplary precedents in designing, planning, implementing, monitoring/ evaluating various health projects/ programmes with applied/operational research component.
Projects Implemented/ Ongoing: 42
Outreach Service activities: Services are provided via Community based fixed service out lets - RHTC, RHC, UHTC, & Mobile service Outlets via camps at hilly terrain and social service camps.
Urban Health Training Center (Coverage of a population of 15,000),
Rural health Training Center (Coverage of a population of 28,788; AWC: 13, Schools: 06)
Rural Health centre (Coverage of a population of 1198; families 199).
Community Health Centre
Community Medicine is actively contributing to research in the form of activities through a Mother NGO (RCH) & various research projects in the field of RCH, IDDCP & other important public health areas by collaborating at State & National level.
Future Vision :
To develop the department a Center of Excellence in public health, and to become a role model & key/nodal resource in the state for capacity building, policy planning and quality assurance; liaison with national/ international agencies for planning and implementation of need based health & development programme.
Key Program Details
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Subjects :
Master's degree in Epidemiology/ Community Medicine or M.Sc. in Clinical Research
Eligibility to Seek Admission in Ph.D. Programme :
Candidates who have completed any of the following :
1-year/2-semester master's degree programme after a 4-year/8-semester bachelor's degree programme
OR
2-year/4-semester master's degree programme after a 3-year bachelor's degree programme
OR
Qualifications declared equivalent to the master's degree by the corresponding statutory regulatory body
OR
Candidates must have secured at least 55% marks in aggregate or its equivalent grade in a point scale wherever grading system is followed or equivalent qualification from a foreign educational institution accredited by an assessment and accreditation agency which is approved, recognized or authorized by an authority, established or incorporated under a law in its home country or any other statutory authority in that country to assess, accredit or assure quality and standards of the educational institution.
Fee structure for the Admission Batch 2024
| Fee Category | Fee dues on | INR | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuition Fee | AIC | Per Year | 80,000 |
| PRU | 59,200 | ||
| Admission Fee | One Time, at the beginning | 20,000 | |
| Enrollment Fee | 1,000 | ||
| Refundable Security (Refundable on completion) | 15,000 | ||
| Course Work Fee | One Time | 10,000 | |
| Examination Fee | For Course Work | 3,500 | |
| Additional fee for failure in first attempt | |||
| Charges for Plagiarism check of Ph.D. Synopsis | 2,500 | ||
| Charges for DRC to approve Research Title | 10,000 per DRC | ||
| Laboratory fee | (Annually, after DRC) | 20,000 | |
| Charges for Plagiarism check for Ph.D. thesis | 5,000 | ||
| Thesis Evaluation & Viva Voce | External Evaluation | 5,000 | |
| Viva-Voce | 20,000 | ||
| Hostel & Mess charges | As per actuals | ||
| Late fee for delayed fee submission | 100/- per day | ||
| Convocation fee | 2,000 | ||
| Hepatitis B Vaccination Charges | (Mandatory for scholars in Himalayan Hospital) | 1500 | |
Note -
- The Ph.D. scholars who are enrolled in the Ph.D. program, shall continue to pay the tuition fee until submission of their final thesis within the stipulated duration as prescribed by the University from time to time.
- Duplicate Degree fee ?1,000/- shall be charged subject to the condition that the original Degree has been mutilated/ lost.