Scholarship to Meritorious Students for MBA Programmes - IIHMR University

The IIHMR University, Jaipur envisages providing Scholarships in the form of tuition fees waiver to prospective meritorious students

The eligibility of the Scholarship is as Under:

MBA Hospital and Health Management		MBA Pharmaceutical Management		MBA Rural Management
Percentage of Marks in the Graduate Degree	Percentage Exemption in Tuition Fee	Percentage of Marks in the Graduate Degree	Percentage Exemption in Tuition Fee	Percentage of Marks in the Graduate Degree	Percentage Exemption in Tuition Fee
50 – 60 %	MBBS Students 25 % Others Nil	50 – 70 %	No Scholarship	50- 60 %	No Scholarship
61 – 80 %	MBBS Students 50 % Others Nil	71 – 80 %	25 %	61 – 70 %	50 %
				71 – 80 %	75 %
81 % and Above	All Students – 50%	81 % and Above	All Students 75 %	81 % and above	All Students 100 %

To apply online visit http://forms.iihmr.edu.in/ 

The National Health Policy, 2017

The Cabinet has approved the National Health Policy 2017. It is a huge milestone in the history of the health sector in the country. The Health Ministry has formulated the National Health Policy 2017, under the guidance of the Hon. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modiji. The last National Health Policy was framed in 2002. So, this policy has come after a gap of 15 years to address the current and emerging challenges necessitated by the changing socio-economic, technological and epidemiological landscape.
The Government of India adopted a highly participative and consultative approach in policy formulation process. The Draft National Health Policy was placed it public domain on 30th December 2014. Over 5000 suggestions were received. This was followed by consultations with the State Governments and other stakeholders for further fine-tuning of the policy. The policy was placed before the Central Council for Health & Family Welfare, the apex policy making a body and was unanimously endorsed by it.
The policy informs and prioritizes the role of the Government in shaping health systems in all its dimensions- investment in health, organization and financing of health care services, prevention of diseases and promotion of good health through cross-sectoral action, access to technologies, developing human resources, encouraging medical pluralism, building the knowledge base required for better health, financial protection strategies and regulation and progressive assurance for health. The policy is aimed at reaching healthcare in an assured manner to all, particularly the underserved and underprivileged.
The policy aims for the attainment of the highest possible level of health and well-being for all at all ages, through a preventive and promotive health care orientation in all developmental policies, and universal access to good quality health care services without anyone having to face financial hardship as a consequence. This would be achieved through increasing access, improving quality and lowering the cost of healthcare delivery.The broad principles of the Policy are centered on professionalism, integrity and ethics, equity, affordability, universality, patient-centered and quality of care, accountability, and pluralism.
The policy seeks to move away from Sick- Care to Wellness, with thrust on prevention and health promotion. While the policy seeks to reorient and strengthen the public health systems, it also looks fresh at strategic purchasing from the private sector and leveraging their strengths to achieve national health goals. The policy looks at the stronger partnership with the private sector.
As a crucial component, the Policy proposes raising public health expenditure to 2.5% of the GDP in a time bound manner. The Policy advocates a progressively incremental assurance-based approach. It envisages providing a larger package of assured comprehensive primary health care through the ‘Health and Wellness Centers’ and denotes the important change from very selective to a comprehensive primary health care package which includes care for major NCDs, mental health, geriatric health care, palliative care and rehabilitative care services. It advocates allocating major proportion (two-thirds or more) of resources to primary care. It aims to ensure availability of 2 beds per 1000 population distributed in a manner to enable access within the golden hour. In order to provide access and financial protection, it proposes free drugs, free diagnostics and free emergency and essential healthcare services in all public hospitals.
The Policy has also assigned specific quantitative targets aimed at reduction of disease prevalence/incidence under 3 broad components viz.(a)health status and program impact, (b) health system performance and (c) health systems strengthening, aligned to the policy objectives. Some key targets that the policy seeks to achieve are -
1. Life Expectancy and healthy life
a. Increase Life Expectancy at birth from 67.5 to 70 by 2025.
b. Establish regular tracking of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY) Index as a measure of the burden of disease and its trends by major categories by 2022.
c. Reduction of TFR to 2.1 at national and sub-national level by 2025.

2. Mortality by Age and/ or cause
a. Reduce Under Five Mortality to 23 by 2025 and MMR from current levels to 100 by 2020.
b. Reduce infant mortality rate to 28 by 2019.
c. Reduce neonatal mortality to 16 and still birth rate to “single digit” by 2025.
3. Reduction of disease prevalence/ incidence
a. Achieve global target of 2020 which is also termed as target of 90:90:90, for HIV/AIDS i. e,- 90% of all people living with HIV know their HIV status, - 90% of all people diagnosed with HIV infection receive sustained antiretroviral therapy and 90% of all people receiving antiretroviral therapy will have viral suppression.
b. Achieve and maintain elimination status of Leprosy by 2018, Kala-Azar by 2017 and Lymphatic Filariasis in endemic pockets by 2017.
c. To achieve and maintain a cure rate of >85% in new sputum positive patients for TB and reduce incidence of new cases, to reach elimination status by 2025.
d. To reduce the prevalence of blindness to 0.25/ 1000 by 2025 and disease burden by one-third from current levels.
e. To reduce premature mortality from cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory diseases by 25% by 2025.
This policy focuses on tackling the emerging challenge of non-communicable diseases. It supports an integrated approach where screening for the most prevalent NCDs with secondary prevention would make a significant impact on treduction of morbidity and preventable mortality.
The policy envisages a three dimensional integration of AYUSH systems encompassing cross referrals, co-location and integrative practices across systems of medicines. This has a huge potential for effective prevention and therapy, that is safe and cost-effective. Yoga would be introduced much more widely in school and work places as part of promotion of good health.
To improve and strengthen the regulatory environment, the policy seeks putting in place systems for setting standards and ensuring quality of health care. The policy is patient centric and empowers the patient for resolution of all their problems. The policy also looks at reforms in the existing regulatory systems both for easing manufacturing of drugs and device s, to promote Make in India, as also for reforming medical education. The policy, has at its centre, the person, who seeks and needs medical care.
The policy advocates development of cadre of mid-level service providers, nurse practitioners, public health cadre to improve availability of appropriate health human resource.
The policy also seeks to address health security and make in India for drugs and devices. It also seeks to align other policies for medical devices and equipment with public health goals.
The policy envisages a time-bound Implementation Framework with clear deliverables and milestones to achieve the policy goals.

Heal the world

Healthcare management is emerging as a growing field with several career opportunities. Given the possible growth of India’s health sector, professionals with specialized management degrees will be sought after. It is estimated that healthcare industry will grow at a CAGR (Compounded Annual Growth Rate) of 16.6%.

Many students today, are highly confused with what to do after graduation. Some land a job after graduation, but the majority must get a post-graduate degree to have a decent job.

Healthcare management is one such field that has brilliant prospects in the job environment.

IIHMR University, may not be as popular as Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) or IIM Calcutta (IIM-C), but it beats the well-renowned B-Schools when it comes to talent placement in the healthcare industry. Interestingly, several premium B-Schools in South East Asia struggle to match the number of students as well as hiring companies that a handful of smaller but exclusive management institutes such as IIHMR attract in their healthcare management stream, which is in high demand now.

Currently, the demand outweighs the supply and this is likely to continue in the coming decade. Here are some top career opportunities available.

MBA Hospital and Health Mangement

Patient safety and quality management coordinators

This position guides staff within the hospital and seeks to improve the quality of patient care through assurance and innovation in partnership with local teams. This helps in the reduction of medical errors and other factors that contribute to accidental patient outcomes. The Patient Safety and Quality Coordinator, together with senior clinical and operational managers, is responsible for the implementation of patient safety and quality improvement initiatives.

Hospital operations/hospital administrators

Health administrators are responsible for safeguarding the smooth operation of a hospital, hospital system or healthcare organizations. As the backbone of healthcare systems, healthcare administrators take up the responsibilities of supervising the vast expanses involving medical personnel. They work behind the scenes to make all types of health care facilities work as efficiently as possible and hire doctors, develop budgets, come up with new policies and patient services.

Assistant medical superintendents/ Deputy medical superintendents

They ensure high standards of patient care and work to deliver on service quality standards along with defining and implementing performance parameters for doctors. They are experts in implementation and adhering to Standard Operative Procedures (SOP) in all clinical specialties, conducting regular medical audits on an ongoing basis and so on. They work to ensure that proper SOPs are in place for the efficient admission, care and discharge of patients.

EOs of hospitals

It is of great importance for a hospital to be run in as highly a cost-effective manner as possible and it is handled by a Chief Executive Officer. A Hospital CEO is responsible for the management and operation of an entire healthcare organization. The main objective of the CEO is to plan, direct and coordinate operational activities with the help of secondary-level executives and staff managers.

Entrepreneurs

Many hospital management experts do not wish to join any industry or an organization, Startups can be hospitals, consulting firms, management agencies or healthcare IT firms. option. of start-ups and entrepreneurs, this is emerging as an interesting career scenario but start a venture of their own. In this current

Training coordinators

They are responsible for training, mapping out training plans, designing and developing training programmes.

Managers/assistant managers at third party administrators (TPAs)

TPAs function as an intermediary between the insurance provider and the insured. One can join as managers and assistant managers on pursuing healthcare management and these specialists work with medical records, coding and billing professionals, and insurance companies to ensure the plan benefits are properly applied.

Bio-medical waste management expert

The Ministry of Essential and Climate Change, Government of India, has raised the BMW Rules on March 28, 2016, through a gazette notification which states that every health care facility is mandated to segregate and dispose of bio-medical waste as per these rules. There is an imminent need to increase the awareness and training/ capacity building of the different category of health functionary in safe. Centre disposal of bio-medical waste from hospital and health

District programme managers

These professionals are designated to the monitoring and planning of district health strategies, as in the National Rural Health Mission.

Consultants in International and National NGOs

NGOs working in health field and needs professionals from the healthcare sector to impart the appropriate knowledge and skills to a fresh graduate. Not all institutes have the required capabilities to provide curriculum and training to create job-ready candidates. Thus, it is important to choose the right institution so that the right career opportunities can unfold. specialized destination. However, there is a catch in all these avenues. Healthcare and hospital management is a favoured sector is another

The writer is Dean, Academics, IIHMR