Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), a pioneer in the field of hospital administration education programme, is offering an online hospital administration education programme using its online courseware, MOODLE. Though it has been offering an education programme for hospital administrators since 1980, so far it was an evening programme which was restricted to working administrators from Mumbai and its surroundings only. School of Health Systems Studies (SHSS) of Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, offered this course. However, TISS being a national institute, the Academic Council approved the proposal to go national and even international, resulting in the new online course.
This programme is for those who are currently working in managerial and supervisory positions without any formal qualification in the field of hospital administration and wish to upgrade their knowledge and skills without affecting their current employment. As the working executives need to study along with their existing job, the course is reportedly designed in a way that integrates both study and work. The students shall be meeting most of their academic requirements at their work desk by using the online mode. In order to learning process more rigourous, two mandatory residential contact programmes are being offered in each semester for 15 days.
There are 50 seats available for this course and large number of applications are expected to come in. The candidates have to undergo an interview process in Mumbai and the successful candidates will join the programme in early October, 2013. The fees for the whole programme is Rs 180,000. The fees cover boarding and lodging during the contact programme, course material, library service, computer service and other expenses related to the programme. The Institute will provide an identity card and email with password, which will enable the student to access all the e-resources of the Institute from anywhere in the world.
EH News Bureau
