Medicine & Health Sciences

Yes, it is one of the best courses in NMIMS. The course concentrates on both theoretical as well as practical aspect of each subject.
The objective of MBA pharmaceuticals management course is to develop students, over the period of two years, by rigorous field work and academics, for managerial positions in the pharmaceutical industry. Students spend 8 weeks of summer Internship with pharmaceutical or medical devices companies.
Lectures, case-discussions (mainly Harvard and Indian cases developed by faculty are used) video-based discussions are used to impart knowledge in this course. 100% placements are provided. For more details about placement, visit:
http://sbm.nmims.edu/academics/programs/placements/mba/

Geriatric physical therapy: According to world confederation of physical therapy, global population by 2050 is 9.6 billion people among that 2 billion aged 60 and above and 400 million 80 and above. Here comes the scope of geriatric physical therapy in the next few decades, in terms of healthy aging.
Sports physical therapy: As people are more enjoying playing sports and games as part of their hobby and profession, fitness and injury prevention will be the utmost aim of individuals and sports professionals.
Occupational health physiotherapy: An upcoming field of great scope, because of emergence of health care ergonomics and industrial revolution around the globe. Safety of employees become utmost important, to reduce absenteeism, fatal accidents, compensation and to increase productivity. Therefore, industrial therapist will be mandatory in all national and multinational companies in the next few years.
Oncology physiotherapy: Cancer death and complications related to the disease is getting higher day by day. There are nearly 8.2 million deaths in 2012 and the new cases is expected to increase by 70% over the next two decades (Source -WHO). Therefore, physiotherapy in oncology is a specialization to look forward in the next few years.
Robotics in physiotherapy: Technological advancement can bring new instruments based on robotics, which ease the efforts of patients and physiotherapist in his day to day practice. So, a person interested in biomedical instrumentation and physics can think off the hidden potentials behind those two fields.
There is no doubt that, the demand of physiotherapy is enormous and its specialized fields are going to increase in the next decades. Along with that, the consumers/patients depending on physiotherapy is also going to rise because of life style diseases.