Giving Medicine Domain a Dash of Professionalism

The healthcare industry has shown a tremendous growth in the past decade in India. The current $25 billion industry is expected to become a $200 billion industry by 2020 because of the rising income levels and elderly population of India. This phenomenal growth has pressed the demand for efficient hospital administrators as the healthcare managers are responsible for personnel, financial and patient administration. In 1961 the World Health Organization recommended the introduction of hospital administration as a separate specialty like any other specialty of medical sciences. With the growing number of hospitals in India hospital managers are greatly in demand.

Medvarsity, an initiative by Apollo Hospital, is providing a diploma course in Hospital Administration to load students with technical knowledge and concepts to perform administrative functions efficiently. The course emphasizes upon providing necessary skills for practical orientation and implementation of strategies according to the modern hospitals. The course comes with a correspondence/ distance learning facility so working professionals can benefit from its flexible learning schedule. In addition to this, all the study material is available online; one can study as per their comfort. It also includes practical training of 2 weeks at Apollo Hospitals all over India along with evaluation and certification of successful candidates.

Course in Medical Tourism – Growth with Growing Tourism Domain

India is rich in heritage and culture which is attracting tourism from all across the sphere. Number of tourists is continually increasing with every changing calendar. Out of them a big amount of tourists are those who come India to have medical treatments. One of the major reasons why India is captivating patients from around the world is top notch treatments. The country houses some of the finest medical professionals who are efficient in their trait. In addition to this another major role is played by the cost. Treatments available here is less expensive than other countries. With the mounting medical tourists in the country the need for skilled professionals who can monitor them is also increasing.

Medvarsity, an initiative by Apollo Hospital is offering a dedicated certificate course in medical tourism. The core focus of the course is to deliver such skilled professionals who are proficient in tourism, medical nursing, pharmacy, life science, etc. The course is designed in such way that professionals effectively contribute to medical domain and also tackle tourism industry. The USP of the course is that it offers online education. It is the add-on because working professionals can also upgrade their knowledge with it. All the study materials are available online which gives a flexible learning schedule.