Mandate

To be responsible for Undergraduate (MBBS) Teaching in Community Medicine for students of Bolan Medical College, Quetta

To act as a Special Services Unit for the Health sector

To develop Training and Services in Family Medicine

To act as a ‘Management Support Unit’ to the Health Department Balochistan

To function as a Research Institute of Public Health

To function as a Postgraduate Training Institution in Public Health / Academy of Health Services / Institute of Public Health

Benefits

If the undergraduate functions are performed by the IPHQ the major benefits that accrue rather develop progressively, are:

  • The teachers are more experienced and qualified, and can supervise better that in a Department of Community Medicine.
  • The exposures to ground realities for doctors in the making are immense at an Institute of Public Health, compared to an undergraduate teaching department.
  • The career aspects of the Public Health Physicians is better provided for in an Institute of Public Health, than at an undergraduate department career development opportunities are negligible.
  • The compromise made while searching for faculty for an undergraduate department of community medicine, are not needed in case of an Institute of Public Health performing the same functions.
  • The academic development and skills for the doctors in the making are more community oriented than in case of an undergraduate department.
  • The medical college itself performs better because of the management and training support which is available in the form of an Institute of Public Health, which is other wise not available whatsoever the tall claims, may be.

The IPHQ over the last six sessions (1996 – 2001), has performed most remarkably on the undergraduate side..