Wealth of career choices in health care
The Sankara
Nethralaya Academy(TSNA)`s Career Counselling news in The New Indian Express –
English News Daily – 21.05.2012
CHENNAI: What to do after class 10 or
12? A perennial question, with the usual answer of engineering or medicine.
However, at a career counselling session organised by The Sankara Nethralaya
Academy, a unit of the Medical Research Foundation, here on Sunday young people
had an opportunity to discover a whole range of courses in the healthcare
sector that could help them build good careers.
Dr R Karthikeyan, director, Gemba School of HR, who
conducted the session, said, “The healthcare service sector is booming. There
are many career opportunities here, with institutions offering courses to
enhance their specialised manpower. Sankara Nethralaya is offering many such
specialised diploma courses.”
The diplomas in Ophthalmic (Nursing) Assistant, Operation
Theatre and Anaesthesia Technology, Medical Record Science, Nursing Aide are
all courses recognised by the TN
Dr MGR Medical University
In the Ophthalmic Assistant course, the students learn about
ocular disease and its causes. They learn to assist in ophthalmic surgical
procedures, to provide pre and post-operative care to patients and to act as
primary and secondary resources to patients, care givers and healthcare
professionals.
The Operation Theatre and Anaesthesia Technology course
teaches students to assist the anaesthetist, surgeon or nurse in various
procedures and to sterilise and disinfect OT rooms following NABH protocols.
Understanding the value, purpose and use of medical record
maintenance in hospitals, how to upgrade medical service by usage of electronic
medical record systems (microfilming), preparing and analysing status reports
of patients’ condition, medico-legal ethics and an understanding of general and
medical insurance acts of the Government of India are covered by the Medical
Record Science course.
Pursuing a diploma for a Nursing Aide brings understanding
of community health services and health promotion procedures, the physiology of
the human body, basic sanitation and hygiene and how to work on improving care
and immunisation services.
These are two-year courses. They offer a three-year BSc
(Medical Laboratory Technology) degree course and a postgraduate MBA
(Hospital& Health Systems Management) programme. There is a one-year online
eMBA in Hospital Management, a certificate course in Hospital Management and
from this academic year a two-year diploma in Refraction & Dispensing is
starting.
Karthick, who has completed his Class 12 and came from Pondicherry
A Mahalingam, academic officer, The Sankara Nethralaya
Academy, said, “Our courses are designed to get the students jobs. Students who
cannot afford to go to college will definitely find jobs after the diploma courses.”
For
more details, contact 9710485295 or log on to www.thesnacademy.ac.in
Ref : http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/wealth-of-career-choices-in-health-care/393593.html
A Mahalingam / mahali@snmail.org
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