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* Department of community medicine, college of medicine, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Iraq. Introduction Community medicine is an important discipline for medical students who are going to be future doctors and deals with different health problems. It is important that medical students understand the community medicine principles and are able to apply these principles in their future life as a doctor. Although only small number of graduates from different medical colleges around the world will eventually choose community medicine as their specialty but the current shift in health care from curative to preventive medicine makes community-based medical education of utmost importance. Despite this shift, the importance of community medicine is still not fully appreciated with more focus on clinical and hospital based rather than preventive and community based education. 4 For health professionals to be able to fully understand the findings of different researches, and to make correct decisions, they need to be Background and objective: Community medicine is an important discipline for medical students who are going to be future doctors and deal with different health problems. Community Medicine is taught in 3, 4 and 6 year of study at Hawler College of Medicine. The aim of the study was to explore students' perception about this subject because it plays an important role in determining educational outcome. Methods: This study was carried out in Hawler College of Medicine, Erbil city, Iraqi Kurdistan Region in the academic year 2013-2014. It was based on a self-administered questionnaire survey of 4 year students. The questionnaire consisted of closed and open ended questions related to the attitude of students toward community medicine course, views on the positive and negative aspects and recommendations to improve the course. The quantitative data were analysed through using the statistical package for the social sciences (version 19), while qualitative data analysis comprised thematic analysis of open-ended questions using common coding techniques. Results: The result of this study suggested that high percentage of the students had positive attitude toward the course. Sixty-six respondents (55.4%) mentioned that there are positive aspects in the course like research project (33.3.1%), having respectful and friendly teachers (31.8%) and participation of students in discussions in the classroom. Sixty-six respondents (55.4%) mentioned that there are negative aspects in the course like short duration of the course (27.2%) and some topics were repeated from other years. Fifty-seven respondents (47.8 %) have recommended a number of priorities for improving the quality of the course like: increasing practical sessions with more student participation (36.8%); decreasing theoretical lectures (22.8%) and the time for the research should be isolated without lectures (19.2%). Conclusion: Community medicine course is well perceived by the students with some negative aspects. Some recommendations have been made for improving the quality of the course.

Perception of students about community medicine course in Hawler College of Medicine, Iraq