Career in Health and Hospital Management

Health and Hospital Management

Introduction

Health services have a very elaborate and effective infrastructure in most developed countries and there is need for streamlining health facilities in India. Hospital Management education is expected to assume tremendous value for achieving these standards. Professional services of trained manpower is currently being used increasingly in privately run hospitals.

Nature of Work

Health care Administration is aimed at providing management skills to professionals responsible for delivery of healthcare services in the country. Managing primary health centres and government hospitals is the task assigned largely to doctors who may not essentially have managerial training. Nevertheless, the trends are likely to show changes in favour of professionals trained for managing health services. Most large and medium sized hospitals have a hospital administrator. The hospital administrator is incharge of various aspects of healthcare administration: Hospital organisation, Planning and control, Medical Staff management, Demography and Biostatistics, Management of Research in Healthcare, Epidemology and Community Health and Strategic Management in healthcare system. Medical as well as general duty administrators take charge of running the medical facities. Large multispeciality hospitals have both medical and non-medical administrators with responsibilities extending in technical aspects e.g procurement of clinical equipments and expendables,professional recruitments, training and research being managed by the doctor administrators, while the maintenance,services,neral administration are handled by trained health services managers.

Work Conditions

• Hospital administratiors usually work out of large offices in the hospital.
• The job requires maintaining good communication with the staff and all departments.
• A regular weekly work schedule.
• Emergency duties

Personal Qualities

• Good peoples skills
• Skills of tact, communication & presentation
• Familiarity with financial operations, personnel management, materials purchase and storage, organisational developement, patient care, insurance etc.

Entry routes

Hopital Administration can be studied only at the post-graduate level. Some courses, however, are offered at the graduate level in health management. Medical graduates (graduates from other disciplines are admitted in some courses) are admitted in the course.

Courses

Institute	Course & Duration	Eligilibility	Selection
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029	Masters in Hospital Administration, 2 / 3 years	MBBS with 3yrs experience in a hospital/spon- sored graduates with 7 years experience in Hosp.Admin.	Theory/ Clinical test/ interview
Dept. of Health Services Studies Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Trombay Rd, Deonara, PB 8313, Mumbai - 400088.	Masters in Hospital / Health Administration with 50%, Age below 45 years	2 years MBBS / BSc. Nursing / BA / B.Com./ BSc.	Admission Test, GD, Interview
Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) South Campus, (Delhi Univ.) New Delhi	Health Care Management, 3 years (part time)	Medical graduates with 5 yrs experience in Hospital Administration and sponsorship	Test / GD /Interview
Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya Instt. of Manaagement studies, Takshila Campus, (IMS), Khandwa Road, Indore 452001	3 years Bachelor in Hospital Administration (30 seats)	10+2 with 50% in Science subjects with Biology at +2 level. The BHA entitles aspirants for the MBA (Hosp. Admin.) Course	Combined Admission Test
Indian Instt. of Health Management Research, 1, Prabhu Dayal Marg, Sanganer Airport, Jaipur 302011 (programmes offered in collaboration with Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)	2 years cource - Master of Public Health Master of Health Care Administration	Graduates with 50% marks	AIMAT