IIM, AIIMS organise healthcare executive management development programme in Jammu

NEW DELHI: Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Jammu along with All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Jammu and Research Foundation of Hospital & Healthcare Administration (RFHHA) organised a joint programme titled, Healthcare Executive Management Development Programme (HxMDP).

HxMDP is a week-long residential program being conducted from September 18 to September 23, 2023. The program has 46 participants from across the country and the features top medical professionals.

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The programme is being held on domains such as human resources, strategic planning in hospitals, hospital services and operations, healthcare communication, healthcare technology, safety, quality and accreditation, healthcare ethics and law, materials and supply chain management, population, health and pandemics, hospital facilities planning and designing, gen next healthcare.

Speaking on the occasion, Professor Shakti Gupta, Executive Director, AIIMS Jammu said, “Medical Administrators are often appointed to leadership roles by virtue of their expertise and eminence in clinical domains, but the need for the development of core competencies related to the administrative skills of their roles is most often overlooked. Formal Management training generally is not a part of the career progression, even though knowledge in the domains of human resources, legal and ethical issues, equipment management, financial management, hospital operations, hospital performance, quality, and patient safety, etc., is required to the success of healthcare organizations and systems. This program is sure to address such needs and is sure to upskill and contribute to the overall development and progress of healthcare in India. I would like to let you know that Jammu is the only city with three institutions of national importance: IIM, IIT, and AIIMS.”

HxMDP addresses the learning needs of medical professionals in leadership roles in the public and private sectors, like Facility Directors, Directors of Health Services, Medical Superintendents, Directors/ Principals of teaching / tertiary care hospitals, etc. The inaugural ceremony ended positively with a promise to create new milestones in the healthcare domain.