Category:Public health 4 - Preventive medicine

I wrote these notes for my public health final. The PH4 topics for the final are more or less the same as the topics for the PH2 exam itself, but there may be slight differences. Check the topic lists.

Before you begin, keep one thing in mind: They will fail you instantly if you don’t know the FULL name of the organism which causes the infectious disease. People have failed because they’d forgotten what the “E” in E. Coli stands for, and for forgetting the name of the organism which causes cholera. Make sure you know all organism names in full.

I also failed my first chance in PH6 because I didn't know the clinical features of diphtheria and pertussis infections well enough. So learn the clinical features as well.