Integration of attitude, ethics and communication skills into undergraduate competency based curriculum is strongly advocated in this edition.

Key Features:

It presents 20 thoroughly revised and updated chapters and addresses 107 core competencies with special emphasis on 18 skill-based competencies.

In addition, the eighth edition incorporates attitude, ethics, and communication (AETCOM) skills (soft skills) to be integrated into undergraduate curriculum.

The revised chapters on concept of health and disease, ethics in medicine and doctor-patient relationship, social and behavioural sciences (humanities), principles of health promotion and eduction, counselling and social marketing, health care of community and community diagnosis, gender issues and women empowerment, health care delivery systems, health planning and management, laws pertaining to practice of medicine, focus on:

• real life issues; as illustrated in Problem based Learning, various case studies, building communication skills, eliciting health care seeking behaviours, barriers in health care, doctor-patient and community relationship, communication needs, assessment of comprehensive community diagnosis, therapy and prognosis, role of physician in health care system and responsibility to society and community, working in a health care team as leader and member of health team, health legislations pertaining to practice of medicine in outbreak and pandemic situation. All the chapters focus on -Community as Patient, community diagnosis and community therapy. Whole of the government and whole of the society approach, leaving no one behind is the emphasis in all the revised chapters.