Great Lakes’ Center For Excellence in Health Care (CFEHC) at Great Lakes Institute of Management, a leading B School in India has launched a nine months executive programme in healthcare management – Post Graduate Certificate Program in Health Care Management (PGCP – HCM). The programme has signed a MoU with Hospital Boards of India an affiliate of Indian Medical Association to gather inputs on designing the course structure and strengthening faculty pool.
The programme has been developed by industry experts within a great academic framework which will help medical experts manage their establishments in a more effective and efficient manner, claims a release from the organisation.
Great Lakes’ Center for Excellence in Health Care (CFEHC) has put together an advisory council who will be playing an active role in shaping and refining the programme. Some of the members of the Advisory Council are Dr Devi Shetty–Narayana Heart Center, Joshua Goh–Avant Health Global, Singapore, Suyash Borar–CEO–CMRI Hospital –Kolkata, Dr M Balasubramanian–IMA President Tamilnadu State 2014 and Dr RV Asokan–Secretary IMA Hospital Board of India.
The PGCP–HCM programme is expected to enable working professionals in the healthcare industry to develop management competencies and prepares them to take on leadership roles in their organisations.
Prof Bala V Balachandran, Founder and Dean, Great Lakes Institute of Management said, “The Great Lakes Center for Excellence in Healthcare has been created with the mission of collaborating with the healthcare industry in order to aid the management research on the best practices and industry standards while at the same time building an excellent repository of knowledge for academic and industrial use.
Prof S Manivannan, Director, PGCP-HCM, Great Lakes Institute of Management said, “Health care industry is poised to achieve a phenomenal growth and the major challenge is creating management professionals to support the industry. The Executive Program in Healthcare Management has been designed to train working professionals in healthcare industry in all of functional and managerial aspects of healthcare.”
“Through this programme, we shall ensure transfer of evolving industry standards to academic activity and provide framework to development of human resources in the industry,” added Prof Manivannan.