Introduction
When it comes to health care, we think about doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other medical officers. Health Care management is a course related to the way to deliver the service of healthcare. This is to say that the one who is rendering services of healthcare is called healthcare managers or administrators who decide the way through which the services ar3 delivered to the needy people, victim or patient. These individuals are responsible for delivering the health services who looks after the clerical tasks of a hospital, doctor’s clinic, nursing home or a take care center.
What does the course involve?
We all are familiar with the study of a doctor or a nurse whose courses are truly oriented towards medicine, medical and service facility. Healthcare management is a newer concept in the field of healthcare. This does not only treat people but avoid diseases. The course of healthcare management includes the following contents:
Managerial course
Medical terminologies
Epidemiology
Bio-statics
Psychology
Health system and policy
Health care law
Strategic Planning
Human Resource Management
Besides, the course involves research methodologies, internship, and specialization course as well.
Objectives of the course
We are all familiar with the functioning of a hospital, clinics or a take care center where we go with prioritized healthcare. Here are the major objectives of healthcare management as a course:
- To assure the competent medical, operational and financial ability to serve the patients, their families and the community.
- To produce qualified healthcare administrators/ managers or professionals
- To make the students familiar with modern principles, concepts, and ways of healthcare management
- To awake awareness among the students about the importance of healthcare management and
- To make the students understand the fundamental role that healthcare plays in strengthening the development of a country
- To establish the importance of healthcare law in a nation
- To develop human resource to manage hospitals finances
- To make the students capable of building community relations
- For the enhancement of public policy
- To prepare students for higher level studies and graduate courses
Scope of the course
As we came to know about the objectives of the course, it focuses on health service management. Doctors and nurses are familiar with health issues and their solutions but their organization is necessary at the same time so the service can be affordable, comparable and accessible to every individual and health must be the prior objective of a human. Here are the major scopes of healthcare management:
- Health care homes
- Hospitals and clinics
- Hospices
- Insurance
- Medical directors
- Pharmaceuticals
- Hospital quality consultant
- Healthcare administrators
- Rehabilitation centers
- National health programs and global health activities
Universities Offering the course In Nepal
Pokhara University
Pokhara University has started the course in Nepal since 2000 AD to fulfill the need felt by the nation in the absence of proper execution of medical services. There requires operational functioning in various fields including healthcare. Knowing this, the university initiated a course in management of healthcare that makes the students familiar with medical terminologies and management as well. The eight semesters (4 years) course will prepare the students to enter in the field of healthcare with a managerial skill as the course involves specialization and internship as well.
Eligibility
The students must have completed the intermediate studies from any stress (science, management, and humanities)
The students must have scored ‘C’ in concerned subjects or minimum second division
The candidate must pass written test and personal interview
Affiliation
The affiliation of the course by the university has been given to five different colleges within and outside the Kathmandu valley.
Colleges inside Kathmandu
Nobel College
Sinamangal, Kathmandu
Tel: 977 01-4110525/ 4110590
Fax: 977 01-4110880
Email: info@nobelcollege.edu.np
Website: http://nobelcollege.edu.np/Default
2. National Open College (NOC)
Sanepa, Lalitpur
Tel: 01-5183226, 5183298
Healthcare: 016-222222
Fax: +977 01 5183226
Email: noc@noc.edu.np
Website: http://www.noc.edu.np/#
3. Atharva College
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu
Tel: 977-1-4372966, 9851014413
Email: info@atharvacollege.edu.np
Website: http://www.atharvacollege.edu.np/
4. Norvic Business School
Hattisar, kamaladi, kathmandu
Tel: 01-4438293,4419306
Website: http://www.norviceducations.edu.np/
Colleges outside the Kathmandu valley
Amity College
Mahendranagar, Kanchanpur
Tel: +977 99 520270
Email: info@amitycollege.edu.np
Website: http://amitycollege.edu.np/
As a whole, BHCM is a course that organizes healthcare services. The course in Nepal was launched 75 years after its introduction in the USA. Having the course launched by a well-known university in Nepal, it has been able to fulfill the need of healthcare administrator or an executive in the field of healthcare and aims in publishing the need of healthcare managers in hospitals, clinics, research centers, and all other health-related sectors.