PG Diploma in Healthcare Management at GIM

Curriculum

First year

The first year consists of a pre-course module and 3 trimesters. Each trimester in the first year will comprise five compulsory courses and the first year will provide a foundation in all areas of management and give exposure to different aspects of healthcare management.

Objective: To provide a strong education in the fundamentals of management as demonstrated in the GIM PGDM Program. The students will learn the fundamentals of business (Accounting, Economics, Finance, Law, Marketing, Operations, OB/ HR, Production Management, and Systems) and also understand the fundamentals of healthcare through courses on The Integrated Healthcare System/ Structure, Hospital administration, Health economics, and other similar disciplines.

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Health Economics

Hospital Planning & Design

Legal Environment for HC industry

Healthcare Structure/ System in India

Financial Management for Healthcare

Healthcare and Hospitals Cost Accounting

Healthcare Accounting

Healthcare Operations Management

Research Methods in Healthcare

Bio-statistics & Operations Research

Organizational Behaviour

Healthcare Information Systems

Management Communication

Marketing Management

Human Resource Management in Healthcare

Healthcare Thursdays

It includes extensive exposure to functioning of the healthcare industry through a live first-hand experience of working closely with hospitals and healthcare institutions. One day every week will be devoted to students working in a private and government hospital to be able to see theory get implemented into practice.

Summer Internship

Program participants will undergo an intensive 8-10 week industry summer internship wherein they will be able to see first-hand the principles and concepts they have learnt in the first year put into practice.

Second year

In the second year, students will deepen their understanding of the healthcare industry and will build on the fundamentals learnt in the first year. The second year will comprise of 9 core courses, 6 electives and a sectoral project wherein they study one of the healthcare domains such as hospitals, pharmaceuticals, health insurance, healthcare consulting etc.

Term 4

Term 5

Term 6

Strategic Management in Healthcare

Managed Care

Ethics & Corporate Governance

Managing Hospital Services

Healthcare Services Marketing

Sectoral project (Hospital, pharma, public health...)

Principles of Epidemiology

Healthcare delivery & distribution

Quality Management in Healthcare

Management of Research in Healthcare Industry

Elective 1

Elective 3

Elective 5

Elective 2

Elective 4

Elective 6

Placements

The PGDM program at GIM has consistently had 100% placements for over a decade. The highlights of the 2012 placements were:

Highest Salary: Rs 14.4 Lakh

Mean Salary: Rs 7.86 Lakh

Recruiting companies

Johnson & Johnson, Cognizant, Infosys, Novartis, Wipro, Boehringer Ingelheim, Wockhardt, Nicholas Piramal, Accenture, Sanofi-Aventis, ICICI Lombard, ICICI Prudential and Tata AIG.

Fee:

Rs 5,91,000 (all six terms excluding hostel fees and refundable caution deposits)