Family Adoption Programme(FAP)

FAMILY ADOPTION PROGRAMME

The Family Adoption Programme (FAP) is a community-based initiative implemented by the department of Community Medicine, HIMSR to address healthcare disparities and promote community well-being. This report provides an overview of the program’s objectives, implementation strategies, challenges and the current status of the programme in HIMSR.

AIM: Provide experimental learning opportunity to Indian Medical graduates towards community-based healthcare and thereby enhance equity in health.

Learning Objectives:

Student should be able to:

  1. Understand the concept of primary health care.
  2. Create health related awareness within community
  3. Function as a first point of contact for any health issues within the community
  4. Act as conduit between the population and relevant health care facility
  5. Generate and analyse related data for improving health outcomes and evidence based clinical practices.

Targets to be achieved by students:

Each student will be given five families to be followed up for 3 years in three phases.

First Professional Year- Phase 1

  1. Learning communication skills and inspire confidence amongst families
  2. Understand the dynamics of rural setup of the region
  3. Screening program and education about ongoing government sponsored health related programs
  4. Learn to analyse the data collected from their families
  5. Identify diseases/ill health/ malnutrition of allotted families and try to improve the standards

Second Professional Year- Phase 2

  1. Inspire active participation of community through families allotted
  2. Continue active involvement to become the first doctor/reference point of the family by continued active interaction
  3. Start compiling the outcome targets achieved.

Third Professional Year- Phase 3

Analysis of their involvement and impact on existing socio –political-economic dynamics in addition to improvement in health conditions along with report submission

Health Camp Conducted on 25-07-2024

Annual Family Adoption Programme Report 2023-24