Advanced Diploma in Hospital Management

About the Course

Among the top professions, Health Management occupies an eminent place. Increasing awareness in all traditional sectors associated with providing healthcare: government, private sector and trusts has resulted in a constant effort to improve healthcare delivery in their respective domain. More so, as healthcare management is becoming increasingly a domain of the private sector, there is a growing need for skillful doctors, nurses and Para-medics and, indeed, efficient hospital managers and administrators.
The medical doctors and nurses have been known for their empathy towards hospitals but the growing emergence of healthcare as a profession has drawn even those who did not have a fascination for hospitals and healthcare activities. Hospitals and healthcare providers wholeheartedly opened their doors to non-medicos who had an eye for detail and a flair for pursuing a career in Hospital Management.
Ever increasing number of private hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centers with a no-compromise emphasis on quality of health care and patient satisfaction have led to an extra ordinary need for personnel with a professional qualification in Hospital Management. Both medical and non-medical persons can opt for the course leading to Advanced Diploma in Hospital Management.

Career Prospects

Increasingly, graduates in Allopathic, Ayurvedic, Homeopathic medicine, Physiotherapy, Dentistry, and Pharmacy have been opting to study for a post –graduate degree / diploma in Hospital Management. There have been instances of graduates in physical / life sciences and engineering / technology taking up the course to enhance their employability or to supplement their knowledge base in hospital / healthcare administration.
On successful completion of the course in hospital management, they have taken up careers as managers in areas such as quality, operations and HR in hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centers and some opted for careers in healthcare verticals of IT companies or healthcare consultancies.
Those who hail from entrepreneurial families who run hospitals, nursing homes etc. take up the administrative roles of these enterprises and others with a flair for entrepreneurship venture into establishing healthcare related businesses or undertaking franchises.

Recommended Background / Entry Requirements

• MBBS, BAMS, BHMS, BPT, B.Pharm, BDS or graduates preferably in Sciences

Course At A Glance

• Course: Advanced Diploma in Hospital Management
• Total Duration: One Year / Two Semesters
• Curriculum: 15 subjects followed by Internship and Dissertation
• Sessions: Each subject approximately covered in 20 sessions of 30 minutes each
• Coursework: 3 – 4 hours per week
• Medium of instruction: English

Certificate in Primary Care Radiology

About the Course

General practitioners and family physicians who are the first point of medical contact are very important for the health of a community. However commercialization, corporatization, specialist reductionist approach to health and increasing patient awareness and medicolegal litigations have made general practice difficult. Investigations are increasingly being ordered in defence against law suits apart from diagnostic purposes. Radiology and imaging given its intrinsic quality of being non invasive and informative they are one of the most prescribed investigations.
In such a scenario General Practitioners should be abreast with the relevant knowledge in Radiology. Busy practitioners find it difficult to take time away from their busy schedules for this and here is where continuous online medical education comes in handy and makes such doctor’s lives easy.
Recognizing this potential, IMA eVarsity has designed the six months certificate course in Primary Care Radiology, which imparts enough knowledge and skills for a busy practitioner.
The course is for those who wish to develop knowledge and skills in Radiology and Imaging and for all those who wish to better manage radiology investigations in their daily practice. The course is run over six months, using a blended approach, comprising of self-paced online education, complimented case based discussion and graded assessments.

Career Prospects

The aim of the IMA eVarsity programs is to enhance the knowledge and practical skills of general physicians and family physicians. It prepares you as a clinician, with comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge in specific areas and allows you to confidently deal with patients.
The six months Certificate in Primary Care Radiology aims at imparting you with basic, simple and yet up-to-date knowledge in Radiology at primary care level. The course hones your skills on when to prescribe what imaging investigations, how to interpret them and when to ask for a specialist radiologist opinion.

What are the key Features of the program?
The program was designed using scientific pedagogic principles to incorporate features drawn from successful on-campus and distance education. These features offer an appreciable advantage by enabling students to:

• Have sound knowledge related to the basics of Radiology at primary care level.
• Develop skills, knowledge and attitudes through a structured online learning experience. The learning experience will be delivered through various technology driven teaching-learning approaches
• Study through virtual cases and discussions that simulate approaches to the real world scenarios

Recommended Background / Entry Requirements

Six months Certificate program in Primary Care Radiology is offered to General practitioners, where the entry requirement is MBBS from any recognised Indian University. Candidates who have done MD (equivalent to MBBS of India) from Russia, China and so on and foreign medical graduates who are desirous of taking the course will need to register with the Medical Council of India. Candidates have to be registered Life Members of the Indian Medical Association.
Candidates should have a clear aptitude for the program and aspire to pursue higher education in this speciality.

• Admissions to the course will be bi-annual.
• You may register online or contact your local IMA chapter.
• You may register up to six months in advance and not more than one week after course starts.

Course Syllabus

• Introduction to imaging modalities
• Image quality control and optimization
• Digital imaging and telemedicine
• Chest and pulmonary imaging
• Cardiac and mediastinal imaging
• Musculoskeletal patterns
• Abdominal and urogenital imaging
• CNS and ENT imaging

Course Delivery Format

The courses of the IMA eVarsity are largely delivered online, with convenient self-study at one’s own pace, time and place facilitated through online faculty.
A rich learning environment is provided through the SmarTeach Learning Platform with access to:

• Online lectures delivered by experts in respective fields. You may view the lecture any number of times using interactive tools to conveniently play/pause, forward /rewind, skip/review.
• Included in these lectures are numerous text slides, illustrations and appropriate 2D and 3D animations, audios/videos to make concepts easy to understand and difficult to forget.
• Reading material includes prescribed Text book and e-Books for each chapter.
• Facility for the student to bookmark specific segments of a running lecture and ability to add your own notes for later review.
• Periodic self-assessment through multiple choice objective questions from a question bank of over 1, 00,000 questions across all subject areas.
• Case based scenarios and simulated case based exercises.
• Online contact sessions through e mail, Web chat and scheduled web sessions with a national faculty.
• Lessons shall be progressively delivered on a weekly basis. Once you go through the module for a particular week by viewing the lecture, completing the reading assignments and completing the self-assessment, you shall get access to the next week’s program.
• Optional Tablet mode available for convenience of self-study without need for Internet connectivity.

Assessment

• There shall be periodic self-assessments at the end of each module and final exam. Your grades in these formative assessments shall carry predetermined weightage.
• Degrees and Certificates shall be awarded during the Annual Convocation of the IMA eVarsity held in the city hosting the Annual IMA eVarsity National Conference.

How is the course accredited?

• The IMA eVarsity has a vast network of affiliations both National and International for accreditation of its courses. Among them, the prominent ones are the University of Sydney (Australia), the George Washington University (USA), Colombo University (Sri Lanka) and many centers of excellence throughout the country which offer great academic and clinical material.
• Certificate course in Primary Care Radiology is accredited by the IMA College of General Practitioners itself.
• CME course modules offered by the IMA eVarsity are accredited by the Medical Council and are valid credits for re-registration of medical practitioners as per the new law and are available on the IMA eVarsity website with a nominal fee.

Admission Schedule

• Admissions to the course would be half yearly .
• You may register online or contact your local IMA chapter.
• You may register upto six months in advance and not more than one week after the course starts.

Course At A Glance

• Course: Certificate Course in Primary Care Radiology
• Total Duration: 6 months
• Hours per week: 4 – 8
• Medium of instruction: English

Certificate in Genetic Counseling

About the Course

The last few decades have witnessed an exponential growth in knowledge, catapulting genetics from obscurity to a pre eminent place in health-care. New information about causative genes, disease diagnosis and available treatment options for several single gene and complex genetic disorders as well as several birth defects, are now known making disease diagnosis and treatment easier. It is critical that clinicians learn about these developments and incorporate this knowledge into their practice.
Each and every patient should be able to benefit from individualized therapy based on their unique genetic makeup; however, this can become a reality only when clinicians are able to comprehend the genetics behind the diseases and syndromes. More importantly the implications of these must be explained to the patients and relatives in a professional and compassionate manner. Such education and counseling accompanying genetic testing is provided by Genetic Counselors in all developed countries; this kind of professional training is being given for the first time in India for clinicians.

Career Prospects

The doctors could practice as genetic counselors or continue their practice with comprehensive knowledge of genetics, duly prescribing genetic tests and interpreting related reports. The course will also give them an understanding of the psychological basis of counseling.

Course Delivery Format

• The course is a hybrid mix of self-paced learning using pre-recorded lectures that can be accessed online or offline.
• There are scheduled Active learning sessions with a Subject Matter Expert.
• This course requires contact sessions in hospitals equipped with Genetic Labs.

Course At A Glance

• Course: Certificate Course in Genetic Counselling
• Total Duration: 24 weeks
• Hours per week: 3 – 4 hours per week
• Medium of instruction: English

Types of Courses

• Diploma in Family Medicine

• Fellowship in Family Medicine

• Fellowship in Diabetes Mellitus

• Fellowship in Primary Care Cardiology

• Fellowship in Primary Care Paediatrics

• Advanced Diploma in Hospital Management

• Certificate in Primary Care Radiology

• Certificate in Genetic Counseling

Fellowship in Family Medicine

About the Course

“There are 57 different specialists to diagnose and treat 57 different varieties of diseases, but no physician to take care of the patient” – so very aptly said by one physician, when asked to comment on the decline in the number of family doctors. Changing trend towards specialization has fragmented the patient care today so much that it has weakened the patient-physician relationship and thereupon the public outcry over the fragmented medical care gave re-birth to the dying speciality of ‘Family Medicine’. Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization endorses Primary care as our best hope for the future. Family doctors are our “Rising stars for the future”.
Propelled by such emphatic endorsement of the concepts of primary care by the World Health Organisation, IMA eVarsity Courses is launching its flagship course, the two-year Diploma in Family Medicine, with the combined experiences of IMA eVarsity running the course in ‘chalk and board’ distance education for nearly a decade or so and MEdRC nearly 2 decades into the field of virtual education.
General practitioners of today are not in the mold of a typical family physician. Though they see a large variety of problems that affect the population, they are generally ill-equipped to manage them. IMA eVarsity shall impart general practitioners of today with necessary disease management skills through scientifically-designed, pedagogically-grounded courses, with experiential learning forming the fulcrum.
The IMA eVarsity courses are a rich amalgamation of the best models of education in the contemporary scene, comprising online study blended with webcasting and mannequin-based as well as bedside clinical trainings. They take off from the famed competency assessment tool of Case-based discussion, as promoted by reputed Universities from across the globe in carving out family physicians.
The course if affiliated to Martin Luther Christian University – MLCU, a premier university from Shillong, doing yeoman service in the field of education in the North-east sector. MLCU is a UGC approved university.

Career Prospects

The primary objective of this course is to metamorphose general practitioners to family physicians by training them on the art of treating the human being and not just the patient. The long-forgotten art of ‘communicating’ with the patient is the main edifice on which this course is built. It starts with and immerses the doctor into listening more than talking, ‘touching’ more than examining and ‘feeling’ more than tackling! While doing so, it imparts career enhancing skills empowering him to function as a Consultant Family Physician, enabling him to render health services to the community and to take timely decisions for referral to provide secondary/ tertiary health services whenever needed.

Recommended Background / Entry Requirements

Recognised the need of the hour, of turning graduate doctors into family physicians, who thrive on building relationship with the patients and family, rather than treat them as numbers, IMA eVarsity has specially crafted these courses for experienced practising doctors – doctors who could not take up post graduation for whatever reason, doctors who are so busy with their practice that they do not find time to attend continuous medical education. These courses are made available for the MCI-registered doctors.

Diploma In Family Medicine

About the Course

“There are 57 different specialists to diagnose and treat 57 different varieties of diseases, but no physician to take care of the patient” – so very aptly said by one physician, when asked to comment on the decline in the number of family doctors. Changing trend towards specialization has fragmented the patient care today so much that it has weakened the patient-physician relationship and thereupon the public outcry over the fragmented medical care gave re-birth to the dying speciality of ‘Family Medicine’. Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization endorses Primary care as our best hope for the future. Family doctors are our “Rising stars for the future”.
General practitioners of today are not in the mold of a typical family physician. Though they see a large variety of problems that affect the population, they are generally ill-equipped to manage them. IMA eVarsity shall impart general practitioners of today with necessary disease management skills through scientifically-designed, pedagogically-grounded courses, with experiential learning forming the fulcrum.

Objectives of the Program

• To develop knowledge needed to diagnose and manage common acute and chronic conditions across age groups seen in outpatient family medicine settings.
• To develop Clinical and Communication Skills to take accurate histories, perform focused physical exams, develop evidence based differentials, generate cost effective management plans, and communicate those plans effectively with patients in outpatient family medicine settings.
• To develop Skills to integrate preventive care into outpatient practice
• To develop the necessary interpersonal skills required in communicating with patients from all types of backgrounds,as well as the ability to impart appropriate health education wherever necessary.

Family Medicine

About the Course

“There are 57 different specialists to diagnose and treat 57 different varieties of diseases, but no physician to take care of the patient” – so very aptly said by one physician, when asked to comment on the decline in the number of family doctors. Changing trend towards specialization has fragmented the patient care today so much that it has weakened the patient-physician relationship and thereupon the public outcry over the fragmented medical care gave re-birth to the dying speciality of ‘Family Medicine’. Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization endorses Primary care as our best hope for the future. Family doctors are our “Rising stars for the future”.
General practitioners of today are not in the mold of a typical family physician. Though they see a large variety of problems that affect the population, they are generally ill-equipped to manage them. IMA eVarsity shall impart general practitioners of today with necessary disease management skills through scientifically-designed, pedagogically-grounded courses, with experiential learning forming the fulcrum.

Course At A Glance

• Course: Diploma in Family Medicine
• Total Duration: 2 years
• Hours per Week: 4 – 8
• Medium of instr

Genetic Counselling

About the Course

The last few decades have witnessed an exponential growth in knowledge, catapulting genetics from obscurity to a pre eminent place in health-care. New information about causative genes, disease diagnosis and available treatment options for several single gene and complex genetic disorders as well as several birth defects, are now known making disease diagnosis and treatment easier. It is critical that clinicians learn about these developments and incorporate this knowledge into their practice.
Each and every patient should be able to benefit from individualized therapy based on their unique genetic makeup; however, this can become a reality only when clinicians are able to comprehend the genetics behind the diseases and syndromes. More importantly the implications of these must be explained to the patients and relatives in a professional and compassionate manner. Such education and counseling accompanying genetic testing is provided by Genetic Counselors in all developed countries; this kind of professional training is being given for the first time in India for clinicians.

Course At A Glance

• Course: Certificate Course in Genetic Counselling
• Total Duration: 24 weeks
• Hours per week: 3 – 4 hours per week
• Medium of instruction: English

Online Medical Courses for Doctors

IMACGP ONLINE henceforth will be IMAeVarsity from 1st July 2015.

Indian Medical Association (IMA eVarsity)  is a virtual university that offers online education to medical graduates through an interactive medium of education taking leaf from the best practices of distance education from across the Globe. Over the last many years, IMA eVarsity has conducted training programs in General Practice, Diabetes Mellitus , Ultrasonography, Practical Cardiology, Community health, Critical Care and Family Medicine. International programs conducted by IMA eVarsity include Post Graduate Diploma in Emergency Medicine, MRCGP International and an International Post Graduate Pediatric Course. All IMA eVarsity courses are affiliated to a premier university in the North-east of India, viz. the Martin Luther Christian University [MLCU] in Shillong, Meghalaya. 

Diploma in Family Medicine

Objectives of the Program

·         To develop knowledge needed to diagnose and manage common acute and chronic conditions across age groups seen in outpatient family medicine settings.

·         To develop Clinical and Communication Skills to take accurate histories, perform focused physical exams, develop evidence based differentials, generate cost effective management plans, and communicate those plans effectively with patients in outpatient family medicine settings.

·         To develop Skills to integrate preventive care into outpatient practice

·         To develop the necessary interpersonal skills required in communicating with patients from all types of backgrounds, as well as the ability to impart appropriate health education wherever necessary.

Course details:                                            

·         Total Duration: 2 years

·         Hours per Week: 4 – 8

·         Medium of instruction: English

 

 Fellowship in Family Medicine

IMA eVarsity Courses is launching its flagship course, the two-year Diploma in Family Medicine, with the combined experiences of IMA eVarsity running the course in ‘chalk and board’ distance education for nearly a decade or so and MEdRC nearly 2 decades into the field of virtual education.

Course details:

·         Total Duration: 1 year

·         Hours per Week: 4 – 8

·         Medium of instruction: English

Fellowship in Diabetes Mellitus

The One year Fellowship in Diabetes Mellitus aims at preparing you as a generalist doctor with comprehensive up-to-date knowledge in the management of Diabetes that allows you to confidently deal with routine problems in Diabetes in your clinical practice.

Course details:                                            

·         Total Duration: 1 year

·         Hours per Week: 4 – 8

·         Medium of Instruction: English

 

Fellowship in Primary Care Cardiology

IMA eVarsity has launched the Fellowship in Primary Care Cardiology to equip such first-consult doctors, with the latest clinically-relevant information, and to mentor them in competently handling all aspects of cardiovascular disease.

Course details:

·         Total Duration: 1 year

·         Hours per Week: 4 – 8

·         Medium of Instruction: English

Advanced Diploma in Hospital Management

Course details:

·         Total Duration: One Year / Two Semesters

·         Curriculum: 15 subjects followed by Internship and Dissertation

·         Sessions: Each subject approximately covered in 20 sessions of 30 minutes each

·         Coursework: 3 – 4 hours per week

·         Medium of instruction: English

Certificate in Primary Care Radiology

 IMA eVarsity has designed the six months certificate course in Primary Care Radiology, which imparts enough knowledge and skills for a busy practitioner.

Course details:

·         Total Duration: 6 months

·         Hours per week: 4 – 8

·         Medium of instruction: English

Certificate in Genetic Counseling

In this course the doctors could practice as genetic counselors or continue their practice with comprehensive knowledge of genetics, duly prescribing genetic tests and interpreting related reports. The course will also give them an understanding of the psychological basis of counseling.

·         Total Duration: 24 weeks

·         Hours per week: 3 – 4 hours per week

·         Medium of instruction: English

Fellowship in Primary Care Paediatrics

The One year Fellowship in Primary Care Paediatrics aims at providing a General practitioner with comprehensive up-to-date knowledge and skills in the prevention and diagnosis and treatment of paediatric disease in their clinical practice.

·         Total Duration: 1 year

·         Hours per Week: 4 – 8

·         Medium of instruction: English

For more info Visit: http://www.imaevarsity.com/lp/c01/