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The department has four functional units, Public Health, Family Medicine, Psychiatry and the Community Health Centre. Through these units the department provides undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Our department has four functional units, Public Health, Family Medicine, Psychiatry and the Community Health Centre. Through these units, the department provides undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Additionally, clinical services are delivered through the Sir Kenneth Standard Health Centre, and mental health services through the Department of Psychiatry, the University Hospital of the West Indies.
The Department of Community Health and Psychiatry aims to provide excellence in clinical service and a quality teaching and learning environment to equip its graduates to become effective medical professionals.
Our department, consistent with the mandates of the university and faculty, remains committed to excellence in teaching, service and research. Currently an amalgamation of the subsection of Community Health and the subsection of Psychiatry, we seek to promote health and well-being among our external and internal clients. In our department, there exists a compendium of educational and training initiatives. We are very proud of our faculty, who infuse our courses with high-quality content and excitement. Engage us! (whether academic or technical and administrative staff) as we strive to be a responsive 21st-century department in a globally accessible and competitive space.
Let the journey begin!
- Dr. kenneth James
The department consists of over 20 staff members who operate to ensure the smooth running of the teaching and learning that occurs within the department at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
The department delivers undergraduate courses and clinical training in Community Health, Family Medicine and Psychiatry to medical students in all five years of their training in the MB.BS programme. We are integral to the overall MBBS programme however, the clinical aspect is especially vital as our IMP course and clinical rotations provide students with the relevant exposure and experience as part of their training to become qualified medical doctors.
The Department offers graduate programmes in Public Health, Family Medicine, and Psychiatry. They are as follows:
Telephone: (876) 927-2893
Email:
Our 7 faculties and 12 professional schools offer more than 200 programmes to some 18,000 graduate, undergraduate and continuing studies students.
The UWI, Mona ranks first in Jamaica among accredited tertiary-level programmes. In 2012, the University was again one of Jamaica’s Top 100 Employers.
