Why Choose JBIHM For Hospitality Management?

Q. What is Hospitality Management? Why should students opt for this course?

A. Hospital management is the specialized administrative management in health care centers such as private or government hospitals or nursing homes. This management helps in providing the health care unit with smooth functionality for various departments. The healthcare sector in both India and abroad is growing day by day and their salary package is also lucrative.  Hospital management professionals with their specially trained skills to manage different departments of the hospitals or healthcare can efficiently help manage healthcare operations. This is why hospital management students should opt for this course to grab the recruitment opportunity with the huge demand that is continuing to grow. 

Q. Is it necessary to have a science background to pursue this course? What are the various career opportunities students can get after finishing hospital management courses?

A. This is not necessary most of the time and the basics about healthcare operations can be learned during this course. Healthcare management teaches basic knowledge about human health, and people management through operations, marketing, HR, patient record management, finance, sales, marketing and other arenas. Hence, people from the humanities, commerce or other study backgrounds can easily join this course. After finishing a hospital management course, the students can have ample opportunities to work as administrative associates or managers, record managers, HRs, hospital operation managers, insurance specialists, public relationship managers, marketing executives, business development managers and many more. 

Q. What are the key trends in Hospital management?

A. Internet of Things (IoT)- The onset of smart healthcare or hospitals has enabled high-speed internet to connect with the devices used there. 

Telehealth or Telemedicine - Telehealth is a digital solution that is also known as telemedicine that helps provide real-time interactive services between doctors and patients. 

Big data and Cloud Computing - Big data allows healthcare professionals to accumulate, organize and analyze a large sum pile of data and the cloud computing technology helps store them for further use. 

Remote monitoring- Remote monitoring is a telehealth facility that allows healthcare professionals to constantly monitor patients (through smart sensor-enabled wearable\s to detect their BP and other physical conditions) with chronic conditions or who are difficult to move to the clinic for treatments.

Real-time diagnosis - Real-time diagnosis is very helpful in emergency situations where patients need immediate care, consultations or support from their doctors or caregivers. 

Hospital Robotics and Artificial Intelligence - Robotics and AI can increase the operational efficiency of hospitals by conducting critical operations, data mining, disinfecting hospital rooms, medicine inventory check and simplifying complex administrative or logical tasks. 

Q. How Hospital management course help any aspirants to grow in their career?

A: Healthcare sectors are always renovating and developing their facilities with administrative structures to serve patients with quality clinical assistance. Thus, the demand of hiring skilled hospital management professionals are increasing day-by-day. Mostly the hospital management professionals start their job as mid-level administrative professionals who keep track of their doctors’ schedules, appointments, patients’ data (medical reports, visiting dates, etc.), finance, insurance and many more. They can build diverse professional skills which assure stable employment for them with a good pay package. Moreover, they can grow through the hierarchical ladder and ultimately can become a general manager or executive manager as well.

Q. Why choose Hospital management over other sectors?

A: Hospital Management brings an incredible opportunity for learning about the medical administrations collaterally with basic medicines, anatomy, physiology and other management skills. All these skills are extremely invaluable for a professional to stand out in this competitive era of employment. The hospital management professionals deal with several patients’ data and maintain their resources which provides them with an excellent field experience. 

Q. What are the basic requirements for eligibility of the Hospital management aspirants?

A: The minimum eligibility for having a hospital management course is to pass the Higher Secondary or 12th irrespective of the streams they studied with. 

Q. What services are provided with the Hospital Management course?

A. Hospital management course prepares healthcare personnel to handle hospital operations comply with government regulations, manage financial budgets and manage quality. They also arrange strategic operational plans and resource skilled man-power and even handle the marketing operations of the healthcare center. 

Q. What is the condition of the Hospital management sector in India in regards to their job opportunities?

A: First of all, the healthcare sector is one of the quickest-growing sectors in both India and globally. Moreover, there is a high demand in hiring expert managers in this sector. In this decade, this demand is most likely to increase by approximately 18% within 2027. (Investindia.gov.in , 2024). This can open up a huge opportunity for a roundabout 136,200 annual job openings in this particular sector. 

Q: What does a Hospital Management student learn during their Hospital Management course? 

A: The hospital management students learn a lot about the two focal arenas; one is human health and the other area is healthcare administration. The first part or the study about human health requires the aspirants to have a basic idea about the medical terminologies, anatomies and physiologies, healthcare planning and operations, epidemiology and some more topics. On the other hand, the students have to get an idea about the healthcare management part which covers topics like healthcare administration, finance, accounting, operational management, ethics, strategic management, human resource management, quality management, public health, health insurance and many other such topics. 

Q: Is a degree course in Hospital management preferred or a diploma course also work? What is the difference between them?

A: As the hospital management course is an integrated study framework that includes both human health and healthcare administration, the degree course can provide both the time and contents to cover such vast topics. Hence, a Degree course is more preferable than a Diploma course in Hospital Management.

About the Author: Gita Das, Director (JB Institute of Hospitality Management) 

Note: The views expressed in this article are solely author’s own and do not reflect/represent those of Shiksha.