Thursday, September 12, 2013

Tata Institute of Social Sciences Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Hospital Administration (EPGDHA) Admissions 2013-2014

SCHOOL OF HEALTH SYSTEMS STUDIES
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
(A Deemed University)
Deonar, Mumbai – 400088

Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Hospital Administration (EPGDHA) Admissions 2013-2014

Admissions open for Diploma Programmes of Executive Postgraduate Diploma in Hospital Administration (EPGDHA), Diploma in Health Administration (DHA) and Diploma in Public Health Practice (DPHP) at the School of Health Systems Studies, 2013

School of Health Systems Studies offers following diploma programmes:

Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Hospital Administration (EPGDHA) [View Details]
Diploma in Health Administration (DHA) [View Details]
Diploma in Public Health Practice (DPHP) [View Details]


For further information, please contact or write to:
Telephone: 02225525510/ 02225525000/ 02225525523
or
email to epgdha@tiss.edu



SCHOOL OF HEALTH SYSTEMS STUDIES: AN INDTRODUCTION
Since 1980, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is conducting training and research in the field of health. Training of working hospital administrators started in 1980 as a certificate programme, which was upgraded to a diploma programme in 1986 and the full-time Master of Hospital Administration was launched in 1993 along with the Master of Health Administration programme. In the year 2006, the Institute augmented all the work in the field of health and set-up the School of Health Systems Studies (SHSS) to further develop teaching and research in the fields of health service administration and public health. The SHSS developed two full-time postgraduate degree programmes in public health namely Master of Public Health in Social Epidemiology in 2008 and Master of Public Health in Health Policy, Economics and Finance in 2010.

Today the School conducts four postgraduate degree programmes. They are,
1. Master of Hospital Administration (MHA)
2. Master of Health Administration (MHA)
3. Master of Public Health (MPH) in Social Epidemiology
4. Master of Public Health (MPH) in Health Policy, Economics and Finance
Apart from the postgraduate degree programmes, the School offers doctoral programme (M.Phil./Ph.D.) in Health Systems Studies.
The School has four Centres headed by a Chairperson working in specific areas of research and training. These Centres are,
1. Centre for Health and Social Sciences
2. Centre for Health Policy, Planning and Management
3. Centre for Public Health
4. Centre for Hospital Management
The School has excellent multi-disciplinary in-house 17 faculty members and a group of visiting faculty members, who come with valuable work experience in health care organizations.
While the postgraduate degree programmes mainly benefitted young graduates to pursue a career in health care administration and public health, there still exists a larger workforce in the health sector, who carry out managerial and public health functions without any systematic knowledge in health and hospital administration and public health. For such working health personnel, it is difficult to come out of their work for two years to complete a postgraduate degree programme. To overcome this problem and to provide them a more experiential and problem solving learning, the SHSS has prepared three one year diploma programmes for working health and hospital administrators and public health personnel, who do not have a formal training and certification in their respective fields. The three programmes are as follows:
1. Executive Postgraduate Diploma in Hospital Administration (EPGDHA)
2. Diploma in Health Administration (DHA)
3. Diploma in Public Health Practice (DPHP)

1. EXECUTIVE POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION (EPGDHA)
The increasing need for professional administration in hospitals, demand qualified and competent professional managers in various specialized areas like human resources, finance, marketing, materials management, information systems, and healthcare quality. Therefore there is an increased opportunity for professional training in hospital administration across the country. EPGDHA is a unique academic programme that aims to meet the gaps in the managerial knowledge and skills of hospital administrators. This programme is useful for those who wish to have stable career, suitable professional qualification and gain competency for achieving excellence in hospital administration.
EPGDHA covers teaching through contact classes, and self-learning mechanism. Further the programme is supplemented with reading resources, references and others sources of learning resources and supported through online method.

Eligibility to Apply
i. Bachelor’s Degree (under 10+2+3 or 10+2+4 or 10+2+2+1 year bridge course pattern of study or any other pattern fulfilling the mandatory requirements of 15 years of formal education) in any discipline and has been working at least 2 years in hospitals.
ii. Medical degrees (Allopathic, Ayurvedic, Homeopathy, Unani, Sidha and Dentistry), BSc Nursing, Post BSc Nursing, paramedical and allied health degrees in the fields of pharmacy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and other paramedical disciplines and have been working at least 2 years in hospitals.
iii. Other bachelor’s degrees like Engineering, Law and in any discipline or other degree holders and have been working in hospitals at least 2 years.
iv. Candidate should be currently working in a hospital.
v. The minimum eligibility to apply is 45% of marks (35% for Scheduled Castes [SCs], Scheduled Tribes [STs] and OBC) or a Postgraduate degree (after completion of Bachelor’s degree under 10+2+3 or 10+2+4 or 10+2+2+1 year bridge course pattern of study or any other pattern fulfilling the mandatory requirements of 15 years formal education) in any discipline.
vi. Candidates who belong to any age group shall apply for this programme.
vii.Candidates Sponsored by hospitals will be given preference in admission.

How to Apply
The application form can be downloaded from the Institute’s website www.tiss.edu.  The filled-in application form should be submitted with copies of the certificates and a registration fee of Rs. 1,000.00 (Rupees one thousand only) by demand draft in the name of “Tata Institute of Social Sciences”. The application form shall be submitted to,
The Secretariat
School of Health Systems Studies
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Deonar
Mumbai – 400088

Selection
The eligible candidates will be called for interview at the Institute in Mumbai. Those who are selected will be given provisional admission to the programme subject to verification of their eligibility certificates. This will be done a day before the contact programme of the first semester.

Important Dates
Last date for receiving of applications: 30th September 2013
Date of Interview, date announcement of final selection list and date of commencement of the programme shall be communicated in due course of time.

For further information, please contact or write to:
Telephone number 02225525510/ 02225525000/ 02225525523 or email to epgdha@tiss.edu

DIPLOMA IN HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (DHA)
Delivery of public health services has undergone a sea of change in the recent past. Especially, with the introduction of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in 2005, the delivery of health services has moved away from the traditional bureaucratic management model to a more flexible and innovative model of management. However, having worked in the traditional bureaucratic system for many years, the medical and other health workforce do not have the capacity to take advantage of some of the progressive policy changes of the government. They lack the managerial capacity to plan and administer programmes in a decentralized and independent manner. This calls for building managerial capacity for health personnel in the government sector.
Similarly, the NGO sector too has changed over a period of time. From the traditional standalone islands of excellence model of health care delivery, the NGO sector has moved to influence health policy and develop health care models that can be scalable in the public sector. Further they find their place within the government programmes as partners of achieving national health goals rather than operating as islands of excellence in a small community. Government too has realized the potential of the NGOs as an important resource in their programmes. In this context, the NGOs need to have structures and systems that are compatible to work with the government system and the personnel should be able to understand the administration of programmes on a large scale with the collaboration of government health care machinery. Therefore, the senior programme personnel need management knowledge and skills to lead their team of health workers in implementing health care programmes.
The current postgraduate degree programme of Master of Health Administration (MHA) is a two year postgraduate degree programme. It is difficult for the state governments to relieve their medical officers for 2 years in the light of acute shortage of medical officers in the state health system. For the NGO sector too it is difficult to relieve senior programme personnel for two years. Further, such training in a city like Mumbai may not be the right environment for a programme for personnel involved in delivering health services mainly for the villages.
Therefore, it was felt that TISS in collaboration with those organisations having rural base will be the ideal setting for this programme.
Thus the Diploma in Health Administration (DHA) addresses the need for building managerial capacity among public health personnel both in the government and nongovernment (NGO) sectors. This programme will benefit those who are responsible for implementing health care programmes at the sub-district (taluka), district and state levels in the government and programme officers of NGOs responsible for programme implementation.

Eligibility to Apply
i. Bachelor’s Degree (under 10+2+3 or 10+2+4 or 10+2+2+1 year bridge course pattern of study or any other pattern fulfilling the mandatory requirements of 15 years of formal education), in any discipline and has been working at least 3 years in government or non-government organization in the field of public health.
ii. Medical degrees (Allopathic, Ayurvedic, Homeopathy, Unani, Sidha and Dentistry), BSc Nursing, Post BSc Nursing, paramedical and allied health degrees in the fields of pharmacy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and other paramedical disciplines and have been working at least 3 years in government or non-government organization in the field of public health.
iii. Other bachelor’s degrees like Engineering, Law and in any discipline or other degree holders and have been working in public health organizations for at least 3 years.
iv. Candidate should be currently working in a health care organization.
v. The minimum eligibility to apply is 45% of marks (35% for Scheduled Castes [SCs], Scheduled Tribes [STs] and OBC) or a Postgraduate degree (after completion of Bachelor’s degree under 10+2+3 or 10+2+4 or 10+2+2+1 year bridge course pattern of study or any other pattern fulfilling the mandatory requirements of 15 years formal education) in any discipline.
vi. Candidates who belong to any age group shall apply for this programme.
vii. Sponsored candidates with financial support from the employer will be given preference in admission.

How to Apply
The admission process will be carried out by the implementing organization. The candidate should contact the implementing organization to find out the admission procedure. The
organization that will conduct the DHA programme for the academic year 2013 – 2014 is,
RUHSA Department
Christian Medical College
RUHSA Campus P.O. 632 209
Vellore District
Tamil Nadu
INDIA
Tel. 04171 – 246251
Mob. 9367985804
Fax 04171 – 246255

The application forms are available online on website: http://www.cmch-vellore.edu/


DIPLOMA IN PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE (DPHP)
Public health practice is strongly based on the epidemiology of diseases and the social context within which these health issues affect the communities. Therefore public health practitioner must have good knowledge of the epidemiology of diseases and the social determinants of health. He/she also needs a set of public health and social skills to intervene in any public health problem in the community. However, the current public health workforce in the government is only medically oriented and have only the medical perspective of diseases, that is, only curative in nature. Therefore, this large public health workforce in state governments needs to re-orient itself to address the public health issues of the communities from the public health and social science perspectives. There is greater awareness among non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working for the health of the communities to understand the epidemiological profile of the communities and the need to measure service and health outcome of their interventions. However, programme personnel in these NGOs do not have these skills. Therefore, there is a need to build public health capacities in both government and NGO sectors to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate public health programmes in the community. DPHP is a two semester programme, which aims to address this knowledge and skill gaps in the government and NGO sectors to plan and deliver public health services systematically. The programme has blended theory with practice to be relevant to public health practitioners.

Total Seats: 25

Eligibility to Apply
i. Bachelor’s Degree (under 10+2+3 or 10+2+4 or 10+2+2+1 year bridge course pattern of study or any other pattern fulfilling the mandatory requirements of 15 years of formal education), in any discipline and has been working at least 3 years in government or non-government organization in the field of public health.
ii. Medical degrees (Allopathic, Ayurvedic, Homeopathy, Unani, Sidha and Dentistry), BSc Nursing, Post BSc Nursing, paramedical and allied health degrees in the fields of pharmacy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and other paramedical disciplines and have been working at least 3 years in government or non-government organization in the field of public health.
iii. Other bachelor’s degrees like Engineering, Law and in any discipline or other degree holders and have been working in public health organizations for at least 3 years.
iv. Candidate should be currently working in a health care organization.
v. The minimum eligibility to apply is 45% of marks (35% for Scheduled Castes [SCs], Scheduled Tribes [STs] and OBC) or a Postgraduate degree (after completion of Bachelor’s degree under 10+2+3 or 10+2+4 or 10+2+2+1 year bridge course pattern of study or any other pattern fulfilling the mandatory requirements of 15 years formal education) in any discipline.
vi. Candidates who belong to any age group shall apply for this programme.
vii. Sponsored candidates with financial support from the employer will be given preference in admission.

How to Apply
The admission process will be carried out by the implementing organization. The candidate should contact the implementing organization to find out the admission procedure. The organization that will conduct the DPHP programme for the academic year 2013-2014 will be announced in the TISS website, www.tiss.edu.



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