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Department of Community & Public Health

The Training and Teaching Programme of DCPH:

The Department faculty and staff also participate in a considerable amount of training in various fields related to health care, such as: working on study designs with various institutions in relation to planned projects, training persons working in health institutions in the methodologies of field investigations, assisting local health institutions in initiating preventive and promotive health schemes, and working with them to develop record keeping systems. Other training activities include, but are not exhausted by: training health personnel and young researchers in computer use and statistical data analysis, training community health and disability rehabilitation workers, and supervising the field research of other institutions. This last supervisory role includes the overseeing of work by Masters students from abroad who are working on theses in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The Department is scheduled to begin teaching at the post-graduate level in the second semester of the academic year 1995-1996. Based on a field investigation into the training needs primary health care professionals, a special post-graduate Diploma in Primary Health Care Training/Supervision has been developed. The diploma program aims to assist in the creation of the mid-level trainer supervisor post and is a necessary step towards the further development of the local health care system.

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