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Paper 1

Public Health

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Public Health in FCPS Part 1

Community Medicine is heavily Pakistan-specific in CPSP examination — vaccination schedules, EPI, district health systems, common disease epidemiology. It rewards Pakistan-context preparation over generic public health reading.

Approx. paper weightage: 6–8% (Paper 2)

🎯 High-yield areas

→ Pakistan EPI vaccination schedule
→ Notifiable diseases and reporting
→ Maternal and child health indicators
→ Epidemiology — incidence, prevalence, study designs
→ Biostatistics — sensitivity, specificity, predictive values
→ Common Pakistani public health priorities — TB, hepatitis, malnutrition

📚 Recommended textbooks

Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine

The standard. Read selectively — Pakistan-relevant chapters only.

💡 Strategy from doctors who passed

✓ Memorise the Pakistan EPI schedule. It's tested every sitting in Paper 2.
✓ Sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV — practise calculation problems until automatic.

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FAQ — Public Health in FCPS Part 1

Is community medicine in Paper 1 or Paper 2?

Both lightly. Heavy in Paper 2 where it's a major component. In Paper 1 it overlaps with Behavioural Sciences.

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