The Department of Preventive and Social Medicine/ Community Medicine is concerned with teaching the MBBS students the preventive and promotive aspects of health of individual, community and region from foundation course till the third year of MBBS Curriculum. Several sub-specialties, such as epidemiology, environment and occupational health, health management, health economics, public health nutrition and communicable and non-communicable diseases form an integral part of the subject.The intricacies of public health problems necessitate partnerships, sharing and collaboration between public health, clinical practice, health systems and communities.  The departmentof PSM will have a close collaboration with the local/district health system in order to provide an exposure ofskill-based learning of public health practices to students.