The Department of Community Medicine is one of the Para-clinical Departments of S. Nijalingappa Medical College (SNMC), a private medical college recognized by the Medical Council of India, New Delhi and is affiliated to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka State, India.

The Department of Community Medicine is involved actively in imparting training for the following category of students:
1) Post Graduate degree in Community Medicine
2) Post Graduate diploma in Public Health
3) Internees
4) First, Second and Third Year M.B.BS students.
The Department is actively involved in innovative strategies to make students understand the various components of Community medicine and its importance.
While seminars, symposia, journal clubs, lectures and group discussions are a regular feature of the department, the department involves actively in innovative strategies such as projects for all undergraduate students and interns encouraging them to become Researchers in the future. The Department also conducts periodic seminars with renowned guest speakers for the benefit of students in current topics. The department has a list of outreach activities to reach the community needs.
The Department is fashioning and gearing itself, knowing that the future of healthy India lies in the making of quality community Physicians.

MISSION/VISION REGARDING TRAINING

Under graduate
Goal:

• Aware of the physical, social, psychological, economic and environmental aspects of health and disease.
• Able to apply the clinical skills to recognize and manage common health problems including their physical, emotional and social aspects at the individual, family and community levels and deal with public health emergencies
• Able to define and manage the health problems of the community he/she serves

Post graduate

• Public Health Management
• Epidemiology
• Health Team Leadership
• Teaching and Training
• Research

COURSES CATERED

1). MBBS
2). MD (Community Medicine)
3). Diploma in Public Health

NUMBER OF POST GRADUATE SEATS:     

MD-01 / year

DPH- 01 / year
Audiovisual Aids : Adequate
Departmental Library:                                                               
Total No. of Books.   320
Purchase of latest editions in last 3 years. 49
Departmental Museum with research Lab facilities available

• ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:

UG Programms
Weekly academic activity, exams, internal  evaluation, ongoing research activities in the 
Department, CME’s
Post Graduate:
Weekly lectures, Journal clubs, seminars , case discussion conducting
Ongoing Dissertations

Year	Title	Guide	Student
2009	Study Of Utilization Of Family Planning Practices In Urban Field Practice Area, S N Medical College Bagalkot.	Dr.C.H.Ghattargi	Dr. Pallavi.R
2010	A Community Based Study On Type II DiabetesMellitus In Shirur, A Rural Field Practice Area Of S.N.Medical College, Bagalkot.	Dr.C.H.Ghattargi	Dr.Gagan.S

Outreach Activities

• Health Services at Rural and Urban Health Centers.
• School Health Services in various schools in and around Bagalkot.
• Camps in neighboring villages in and around area of influence.
• Diagnostic, Immunization and Nutrition supplementation in field practice area.
• Health care services to children of Anganwadis-under field practice area
• Immunization and Health education activities at Anganwadis-under field practice area
• Working for National health problems.

Faculty Research Projects (ongoing)

Sl.No	Staff	Title
1.	Dr.C.H.Ghattargi Dr.B.S.Mannapur	Survey of risk factors of non communicable diseases in the rural field practice of S.N.Medical college, Bagalkot.
2.	Dr.C.H.Ghattargi Dr.Manjula.R Dr.Gagan.S	Seroprevalence of Trasnfusion transmottedDiseases  among blood donors in  in  Bagalkot Blood Bank, Bagalkot.
3.	Dr.C.H.Ghattargi Dr.Umesh.R Dr.Pallavi.R	Profile of blood donors
4.	Dr.C.H.Ghattargi Dr.Ramesh.M Dr.Roopa.M	Profile of blood recipients
5.	Dr.Mannapur.B.S	Study of health problems in geriatric people in urban field practice area of S.N.Medical College, Bagalkot.
6.	Dr.Mannapur.B.S	Study of health and morbidity status of gardeners of horticulture university, Bagalkot.

ACHIEVEMENT OF STAFF (PUBLICATION, OTHER HONORS IN THE FIELD):

Publications:

• Ghattargi.C.H, Perugulwar.C.R; A study of reasons of children deprived from Education; PRESM, Journal of Community Health, Pune, Volume VIII, No.1.January-June, 1998, 52-59.
• Ghattargi.C.H, Rebentisch.H; A profile of cervical cytology of women attending Rural Health Training Center, Vairag; Indian Medical Gazette, February 1999, Vol. CXXXIII No. 2, 69-73.
• Ghattargi.C.H, Deshmukh.S.N; A study of family background of Juveniles and reasons for their admission to Remand Home; Indian Journal of Community Medicine, Volume XXIV, No.2 April-June 1999, 50-57.
• Ghattargi.C.H, Deshmukh.S.N; A study of some psycho, socio and behavioral aspects of delinquents; Indian Medical Gazette, February 2000, Vol. CXXXIV No. 2, 35-38.
• Pore.P.D, Ghattargi.C.H, Rayate M.V; An epidemiological profile of Rabies patients admitted in ShriChhatrapatiShivajiMaharaj Government Hospital, Solapur; PRESM, Journal of Community Health, Pune, Volume IV, No.1.January-June, 2002, 41-47.
• Khadilkar.H.A, Ghattargi.C.H, Thite.G.H; Knowledge regarding the disease in hypertensive, A cross-sectional study; Indian Medical Gazette, June 2003. Vol. CXXXVII, No. 6, 230-233.
• Deo.S.D, Thite.G.H,Ghattargi.C.H; The pattern of Menstruation in urban and rural adolescent school girls; PRESM, Journal of Community Health, Pune, Volume V, No.1 and 2.January-Dec.  2003, 38-43.
• Deo.S.D,Ghattargi.C.H; Health profile of adolescent schoolgirls, a comparative study among Urban and Rural girls; Indian Medical Gazette, January 2004, Vol. CXXXVIII, No. 1, 21-26
• Khadilkar.H.A,Ghattargi.C.H, Thite.G.H; Some epidemiological aspects of Hypertension – A community based study; PRESM, Journal of Community Health, Pune, Volume VI, No.1.January-June, 2004, 39-43.
• Khadilkar.H.A,Ghattargi.C.H, Thite.G.H; Profile of Awareness in Hypertensive Cases regarding treatment; The Indian Practioner, June 2004 Vol.57 No.6, 356-358.
• Deo DS, Ghattargi.C.HAge at Menarche and associated factors; Indian Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 71, June 2004, 565-567.
• Khadilkar.H.A,Ghattargi.C.H, Thite.G.H; Study of prevalence of hypertension and socioeconomic factors in rural community of Maharashtra; South Asian Journal of Preventive Cardiology, Volume 8, No. 4,2004, 205-210.
• Deo.D.S,Ghattargi.C.H; Perceptions and practices regarding menstruation: A comparative study at Urban and rural adolescent girls; Indian Journal of Community Medicine, Volume 80, No. 1, January - March 2005, 33-34.
• Mumbare S,Ghattargi.C.H; Factors affecting age at start of smoking; PRESM, Journal of Community Health, Volume VIII, Number 1, Jan – Jun 2006, 14-18.
• Maternal Factors associated with Birth Weight of baby, Journal of Community Health, Volume IX, Number 2, Jul– Dec. 2007
• Hiremath L.D, Dorle.A.S, Ghattargi.C.H; Maternal Factors associated with Birth Weight of baby, Journal of Community Health, Volume IX, Number 2, Jul– Dec. 2007, 69-75.
• Hiremath L.D, Dorle.A.S, Ghattargi.C.H, Kulkarni KR; Prevalence of anemia among women in community health centre, Bagalkot; Indian Journal of Clinical Practice; Volume 21, No 3, August 2010, 142-147.
• Dorle.A.S, Hiremath.L.D, Mannapur.B.S, Ghattargi.C.H; Awareness regarding Puberty Changes among secondary school children, Bagalkot- A Cross sectional Study; Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Reasearch, Volume 4, October 2010, 3016-3019.
• Mannapur.B.S, Dorle.A.S, Hiremath.L.D, Ghattargi.C.H, Ramadurg.U, Kulkarni KR; A Study of PsycHological Stress in Undergraduate Medical College  Students At S.N.Medical  College, Bagalkot,Karnataka; Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Reasearch, Volume 4, August 2010, 2869-2874.
• Shankar.G, Naik.V.A, Powar.R; Epidemiolgical study of burn injuries admitted in two hospitals of north Karnataka; Indian Journal of Community Medicine; Indian Journal of Community Medicine, Vol 35, Issue 4, October 2010, 509-512.
• Dorle.A.S, Mannapur.B.S, Hiremath.L.D, Ghattargi.C.H, Ramadurg.U, Manjula.R, Kulkarni.K.R, Gundappa;The Knowledge And Perception About Lymphatic Filariasis In one Of The Endemic Talukas Of Rural North Karnataka; Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, Feb 2011, Vol-5(1):101-103.

Department of community medicine provide services at : Urban Health Centre – Bagalkot and Rural Health training Centre – shirur

CONTACT DETAILS

Dr.C.H Ghattargi
Professor and HOD
Dept of Community Medical (P & SM)
S.N.Medical College,Navanagar. Bagalkot – 587 102
Contact No: (Office) +91-8354-235400/235410 Extn 1184
Cell phone No: +91- 9448212893 / 8050638055
Email : chghattargi@gmail.com