A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE

The College of Community Health, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (CCHUCTH), Calabar was established in 1981. Its an accredited professional training College by Community Health Practitioners Registration Board of Nigeria (CHPRBN) for the award of Higher Diploma (HD) in Community Health for the training of Community Health Officers (CHOs). The College is located at the main site of the teaching hospital. It is also Headed by a Provost, a licensed Primary Health Care Tutor and lecturers in the College are licensed PHC Tutors and Specialists in various field in the health care profession.

The College has three standard class or lecture rooms, electronic and reference library, well-equipped demonstration room, a laboratory with up-to date reagents, a 50 seater Mercedes Bus to convey Officers in training to practical areas and an annual journal for article publications. The College has a standard hostel accommodation with the capacity to accommodate over 180 students with a laundry, cafeteria, reading or common room and two projectors for practical demonstration and lectures.

The College is enriched with professional Primary Health Care Tutors, Laboratory Scientists, Human Anatomists, Medical Sociologists and other Medical Professionals. These collective professionals brings expertise training and professional clinical skills into making and producing quality Community Health Officers.

CORE VALUES

The College strives to deliver advanced training with trained Community Health Tutors and specialists in various sub-fields in line with the standards and ethics of the profession. It encourages team work and compliance to the standards and regulations of University of Calabar Teaching Hospital. Students Officers in training who are already practitioners are to collectively cooperate with the college Tutors and lecturers to learn new clinical skills in compliance with Global Best Practice while providing good leadership in health workers attitude change to ensure that at post-graduation, quality and specialized health care services is provided to the community

OBJECTIVES OF THE COLLEGE

•  Train and empower CHOs to become highly skilled healthcare providers to effectively carry out their primary health care assignment where ever demand arises.
•  Build team of experts that will drive health sector positively through research and its outcome in clinical practice.
•  Train and nurture young minds to leverage on use of health technologies in consonance with global best practice to bring about improved healthcare practice and service.
•  To groom new breed of community health officers with sense of team-work which will lead to patient centred care.
•  Set space for intersectoral collaboration for human and facility resources between the College, the mother institution and other non governmental organization.