Academics
Program Educational Objective (PEO)
The Post Graduate Program in Hospital and Health Management at IIHMR is designed to provide the graduate students with appropriate knowledge, attitude and skills to enable them to perform as effective leaders and managers in healthcare industry"
Additionally, the program seeks to fulfil the following specific objectives:
- To understand concepts and techniques of management and their application in hospital and healthcare organizations.
- To develop skills in diagnosing and solving management problems in healthcare.
- To apply the management skills in planning, operationalizing and managing healthcare organizations.
- To focus on strategic responsibilities for capacity building and human resource development for healthcare delivery.
- To understand and apply the principles of research to identify healthcare problem and provide solutions.
- To explore and implement new technology and innovations in health sector.
Program Outcome
Upon completion of the program the student will be able to "Function effectively as leader and/or manager in a healthcare set up". In order to achieve this, the following program outcomes have been defined:
- Management Knowledge & Skills : Develop students with requisite management knowledge and skills in healthcare delivery system
- Problem Analysis : Ability to define the problems and provide solutions by designing and implementing strategies and by interpreting and analyzing data for healthcare delivery
- Design/development of solutions : Design solutions for health systems for its program components and processes that meet the specified goals with appropriate consideration for health, safety , cultural, societal, and environmental sensitivities
- Conduct investigations of complex problems : Use scientific approach, knowledge, and methods including design of experiments, analysis, interpretation of data, and synthesis of information to provide valid conclusions
- Modern tool usage in healthcare : Understand technologies like computer-controlled processes and management information systems, supply chain management, enterprise resource planning, statistical software designed on healthcare management
- Healthcare & society : Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal, and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities in community extension relevant to the professional healthcare management practice
- Environment & sustainability : Understand the impact of the professional healthcare management solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and the need for sustainable development
- Responsible Behaviour & Ethics : Demonstrate responsible behavior through awareness, sensitivity and professional standards and apply ethical principles and norms for healthcare management in professional settings
- Leadership & teamwork : Engage in participatory management to conform to a shared vision and activities for the achievement of organizational and societal goals.
- Communication : Develop soft skills and effectively communicate health management activities to professionals and to the society at large, such as being able to comprehend and write effective reports, presentations, documents, and give and receive clear instructions
- Resource Management : Exhibit competency in choosing and applying appropriate resource management technique(s) and meeting timelines so as to optimally utilize resources in healthcare systems to attain program outcomes
- Life-long learning : Recognize the need for and ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in the context of contemporary changes in the health care systems