Hospital Management

Hospital Management is relatively a new phenomenon in the field of management education. The changing times require a specialist in every field for every position. Rising expenditure on healthcare has seen coming up of many new hospitals and treatment centers. Most of them are specialty hospitals catering to specific needs of the patients. Different classes of hospitals are normal hospitals, specialty hospitals and super specialty hospitals. But in order to run smoothly, these specialized healthcare centers require qualified professionals.

Many institutes in India offer various courses in hospital administration. Large number of students are opting for these courses because of its twin benefits of handsome pay package and offering public healthcare services. Few medical colleges offer MD courses in hospital administration. Several diploma and certificate courses are available in hospital management. Apart from these reputed colleges, few others have also started two year MBA programs in hospital management. Institutes like Madurai Kamraj and others are credited to start these courses which are fast gaining in popularity. Medical Council of India is also pitching in with praiseworthy efforts to improve the course contents.

Other noticeable courses are distance learning courses, especially from The Indian Society of Health Administrators (ISHA) and Tamilnadu Open University.

Many top notch institutes like Symbiosis Center of Healthcare, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi; The Apollo Hospitals; Armed Forces Medical College, Pune; Tata Institute of Social Science etc provide wonderful job opportunities to the students. Once the course is completed, passing candidates can join as Assistant Hospital Administrator or in finance department in major healthcare institutes, nursing homes and other hospitals.

Careers in Marketing

Marketing department plays a major element in the sustained growth and development of any organization. Right from the ancient times, when traders from other countries used to come to India showcasing the products from their regions, the concept of marketing has existed. These traders were nothing but marketing persons extolling the virtues of their countries and its products. Things have remained the same by and large even in modern times. The structure and designation has changed but the larger goals and objectives have remained the same.

Marketing is one of the most challenging as well as rewarding career. People can find job in marketing department even with basic education. But with increasing competition and improved education, the benchmark for selecting marketing professionals have also gone skyward. Nothing less than a B.Com or M.Com would do. But the best bet for getting a good marketing job in a reputed organization is acquiring MBA degree in Marketing. Students completing their masters in marketing have much greater chances of getting good offers from corporate houses. The most common designations in marketing department are market research analyst, medical transcription representative, brand manager, marketing manager, product manager etc. Booming economy of India coupled with rise of many multinational companies have only added fuel to the demand for marketing professionals.

To get a masters degree in marketing, students need to be a graduate with a confident approach towards rough and tumble of marketing world. Having excellent convincing power with expertise in communication skills will be an added bonus for aspirants. MBA (marketing) is a two year full time course which is also available through distance learning, part time and online mode. MBA Admission process involves aptitude test followed by group discussion and personal interview.

GRE

GRE stands for ‘The Graduate Record Examination’. GRE exam is taken for the purpose of admission into English speaking countries. Students opting to study in USA and European countries apart from Australia have to clear GRE exam. It’s a standardized test which has been created and managed by Educational Testing Service (or ETS). GRE exam is conducted online. Various testing centers all over the world conduct this exam. To the benefits of the candidates, many testing sites are available in many states. It’s important to note that, candidates should register themselves before taking the graduate record examination. Ideally, it’s better if management aspirants register themselves quite a while before actually taking the exams. That increases the chances of getting the desires date. Candidates have also benefited with advent of online registration facility. The procedure involves filling up the registration form. One needs to register six weeks ahead of the exam date.

GRE exam pattern is based on two exams, general test and psychology test. General test aims to check students’ analytical, verbal and quantitative capabilities. Scoring excellently in these subjects is of paramount importance to get into quality management colleges abroad. The normal score range is 200-800 in quantitative and verbal tests. The scale being used in analytical tests is 0 to 6.

Subject test checks candidates’ psychological prowess. Aspirants need to have good preparation in analogies, vocabulary, reading comprehension, algebra and geometry in order to score better and enhance their chances of securing admission in top class B-schools. GRE also requires effective time management. Finally, students with great analytical and abstract thinking skills are much more likely to crack the exam.

Educational Loans

If we look at previous years things were not that rosy for less-than-affluent class family students. Higher education was not easily accessible to them because of high cost of education. This used to deprive many students from realizing their true potential. This in turn, also robbed India of some potentially great talents. Though, option of scholarships was there, but they were far less. But with rising economy, things have changed for better. Now getting educational loans has become a routine affairs and this has really helped in promising students achieving their dreams. Various banks provide educational loans to students and this has resulted in students going whole hog for higher studies. Credit must go to flourishing India’s rich cash generation and especially banking sector. Not only government banks but private banks also are providing loans to students opting for MBA and other professional courses. In fact banks are taking initiating on their own to provide loans to students for various competitive courses.

Banks, offering educational loans are;

State Bank of India, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Allahabad Bank, Bank of India, Central Bank, IDBI, Bank of Baroda, Federal Bank, Karnataka Bank, Punjab National Bank, Mysore Bank, United Western Bank, Indian Bank, HDFC Bank, State Bank of Saurashtra, State Bank of Mysore, Indian Overseas Bank, Bank of Rajasthan, Syndicate Bank, Andhra Bank, State Bank of Indore, UCO Bank, Vysya Bank, United Bank Of India, Bank of Maharashtra, State Bank of Hyderabad, Canara Bank, Vijaya Bank, Punjab and Sind Bank, Development Credit Bank and ICICI bank.

MBA Coaching

MBA is one of the most sought after career choice in India. But getting into reputed MBA colleges requires tremendous efforts. The fact that lakhs of students vie for limited number of seats available in management schools, makes it even more competitive to get through the rigorous MBA entrance exams. Every year large number of students appear of various MBA entrance tests and its never an easy job to make it through painstaking selection procedure used for management admission. The tough competition can be gauged from the fact that only two to three percent appearing candidates manage to make it to esteemed IIMs. Apart from CAT, other well known entrance examinations are XAT, CET, NMAT, SNAP and MAT.

It’s a well known fact that MBA admission procedure has three parts; entrance examination, group discussions and personal interview (GD & PI). Cracking all three stages require great skill and all round capabilities. Here comes MBA coaching institutions in picture. There are hundreds of famous and reputed coaching institutions spread over length and breadth of India. IMS, Brilliant Tutorials, Career Launcher and Time are few of the renowned MBA coaching institutes. These institutions excel at providing required management education to the appearing candidates. Coaching classes aim at preparing students in different subjects like Math’s, Reasoning and logical abilities, Data interpretation and English which are so vital for the entrance test. They also focus on preparing students for group discussions and the interviews by teaching effective communication and developing confidence through numerous practice sessions. Coaching institutes provide necessary subject materials to the students apart from conducting mock test on a regular basis. No doubt, MBA coaching institutions contribute significantly in the career of thousands of students.