Exam Preparatory Manual for Undergraduates: Community Medicine (PSM) by Vivek Jain, 5th Edition

Exam Preparatory Manual for Undergraduates: Community Medicine (PSM) by Vivek Jain, 5th Edition.

Key Features:

• Based on “New Competency-based Undergraduate Curriculum for Indian Medical Graduate (National Medical Commission)”
• The content has been created and designed keeping a focus on Competency-based Undergraduate Curriculum Questions and Integration with Other Subjects Questions
• New Updated Sections: Coronavirus and COVID-19 disease, COVID-19 vaccines, and Geriatrics
• New Topics in Public Health: Health Index of India—NITI Aayog, Medicine for Longer MDR-TB Regimens, TB Preventive Therapy(TPT), Two-step Mantoux Testing, The Haddon’s Matrix, RMNCHA + N Strategy, Trachoma Elimination, Cervavac Vaccine,ThRabis Vaccine, Cholera Vaccines, and Screening Test for Cervical Cancer
• New Updated Guidelines—International/Indian Health: Hand Washing Guidelines (WHO), Integrated Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD, WHO, and UNICEF), WHO Global Action Plan for Prevention and
• Control of NCDs 2020–2030, Immunization Agenda 2030, Global Strategy for Dengue Prevention and Control 2021–2030, NEW IPHS Guidelines 2022: Subcenter, PHC, CHC
• New/Updated Health Programs, Policies, Legislations, Schemes—India: NTEP 2025–26, NLEP 2025–26, NACP Phase V 2021–26, New Revised ARV Regimen Guidelines for PEP HIV (NACP), Revised Leprosy Management Guidelines under NLEP, National Program on AMR Containment, MTP Act 2020–2021, National Action Plan for Dog Mediated Rabies Elimination from India by 2030, National Strategic Plan – Malaria Elimination 2023-27, National Strategic Plan and Roadmap for Leprosy 2023-27, Mission Shakti 2021-26, Intensified Mission Indradhanush 5.0 (IMI 5.0), PMMVY 2.0
• New/Emerging Infections: Monkeypox, COVID-19 strains, Tomato Fever (Tomato Flu)
• New/Updated Public Health Data/Statistics of India 2026–2027: NFHS-5 data, SRS data, Rural Health Statistics

Target Audience:

• Medical and Allied Health Science Students.

About the author:

Vivek Jain is a MBBS graduate from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, and has done his MD (PSM/ Community Medicine) from Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi. He had been a Consultant with ‘UN Office on Drugs & Crime – South Asia’ for SAARC Countries, and has extensively travelled across the globe. He has authored several best-seller books for both Indian and Foreign Medical Graduates, namely, Review of PSM (Including Biostatistics), PHOTON-20 (Image Based Questions), PhyBiAn, PROAFS, PMFU (Community Medicine) and PSM for NBE. He is also author of several research/ review articles in Indexed Journals. He has been actively involved in teaching Medical Undergraduates across the country and abroad since last 12 years. Having worked as a faculty with a Medical college in NCR-Delhi, Dr. Jain feels there is a lot of scope for improvement in teaching Medicine in India.

Exam Preparatory Manual for Undergraduates Community Medicine (PSM) By Vivek Jain.
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