ICRI Launches A Course In Phd Healthcare Management

NEW DELHI - July 18, 2016 - PRLog -- New Delhi -- ICRI is a premier institute which has launched a course in PhD Healthcare Management. It is a doctoral program in the health sector that has a multidisciplinary focus. The areas of research include health and hospital management, public health, pharmaceutical management, nursing management, health economics and finance, population and reproductive health, rural health, urban health, health communication health nutrition, and behaviour change, information technology in the health sector, health systems and related areas.

Who all can enrol?

The Masters in Hospital Administration is a program which is open to postgraduates and health professionals in the field of public health and medicine, management, nursing, health economics and finance, demography, and allied sciences.

Objectives of the Programme

It is a course which aims at strengthening as well as in building research capacity in the management of health care so that it can improve the standards of health of people through affordable, accessible and equitable health services.

After the course you should be able to:

To meet the needs of research competency and skills of researchers, postgraduates, health administrators, academicians and teachers, and mid-career health care professionals in the government as well as in the private health sectors in policy and program management research in the health sector including health systems, hospitals  and services, pharmaceutical management.

Duration of the Programme

The minimum program duration for the course in PhD Healthcare is two years including period of registration. Only those students who pass the qualifying examination can register themselves for the course which will be based on the course work in the first year of the program.

Eligibility Criteria

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) or a Masters' Degree from University which has been recognized by the UGC/AICTE with a minimum of t 55% marks (or equivalent grade) for general category and 50% marks for SC and ST candidates in general management, hospital and health management, nursing, medicine, health informatics, pharmacy, social and behavioural sciences, commerce, economics, demography, science  and statistics.

The institute of ICRI encourages working professionals (policy makers, health administrators, medical/ nursing and management professionals) to undertake the PhD Program so that they are able to bolster their chances of competence in evidence based research for policy and program development. They will get the necessary weightage in admission.