CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN MEDICAL HEALTH

Objective: (i) To learn to identify and assess disasters in the community. To set forth policies procedures for disaster preparedness and to prepare a disaster plan for a hospital. (ii) To impart training in the field of medical tourism with the increasing global awareness about scope and opportunities in Medical Treatment and (iii) To provide information about contemporary issues related to health care i.e. Tele Radiology, Tele Oncology, Tele Surgery. (iv) To create awareness about Medical Architecture. SECTION A Disaster Management: Basics of disaster management and Mass casualties; Components of disaster plan: pre-hospital and hospital; Disaster alertness in hospital; Severity of illness among disaster victims and risk assessment; Mock exercise on disaster management and hospital. SECTION B Ethical & Legal Aspects of Tele Medicine: Confidentiality and Law, patient rights and consent, access to medical records, consent treatment, jurisdictional issues, intellectual property rights. Tele Radiology: Basic parts of Tele Radiology systems Image Acquisition System, Display system, communication network, interpretation; Tele pathology, Tele cardiology, Tele Oncology, Tle Surgery. SECTION C New Age Tourism Products: Concept of Tourism, Types of tourism, Active Tourism, Passive Tourism, Medical Tourism Concept, Importance, Booming Medical Tourism in India, Cost Benefit analysis of Medical Tourism in India, Role of Government to promote Indias Medical Tourism, Role of IMTA to promote Indias Medical Tourism, Medical Tourism and Insurance. SECTION D Medical Architecture: Vocabulary, Brief history of development of Medical Architecture body of knowledge, Multiple ways of seeing medical architecture from medi-cities to co-ordination of all physical inputs in health care delivery facilities, Hospital Modernization & Expansion, Recent successful practices in modernization and expansion in India and other Asian countries.

HEALTH STATISTICS, EPIDEMIOLOGY, PATIENT CARE SERVICES AND HEALTH ECONOMICS

Objectives: (i) To understand the various indicators of health, population dynamics, importance of health statistics in future planning for health care services and provide an overview of health economics related issues; (ii) To enhance the knowledge of Patient Care Services. SECTION A Health Statistics: Ratio Analysis, Incidence and prevalence rates, Morbidity statistics; Mortality, Morbidity, IMR, MMR; Observational, Analytical & Experimental Studies. SECTION B Concept of Epidemiology: Definition and concept, Types of uses, Incidence and prevalence; Epidemiological studies: Epidemic, Eudemic, Pandemic, Sporadic--Investigation of an epidemic; Principles and Epidemiology, Natural history of disease, methods of epidemiological studies, epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable disease, disease transmission. Host defense immunizing agents, cold chain immunization, disease monitoring and surveillance, screening and surveys, investigation of an epidemic and role of hospital in its control. SECTION C Control of Hospital Acquired Infection: Objectives, content areas, key issues, definition, types of HAI; High Risk Areas, Modes of Transmission, Control of HAI, Surveillance of HAI, Administrative and organizational aspects of HAI control programme; Cleaning, Sterilization and Disinfection; Antibiotic Policy; Universal Precautions; Recommended Personal Protective Equipment for protection of Health Workers against HIV and HBV Transmission; Precautions in specific areas. SECTION D Introduction to Health Economics: Defining Health Economics. Importance of Health Economics Essential Features; Demand and Supply of Health Care: Demand for Health Care Case of Health Care Accessibility Socio Economic and Cultural Features, Determining Health Status Supply of Health, Health Care Delivery System Pricing of Health Care.

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Objectives: The objective of the paper is to orient the students towards system of total Rewards & payments made to the execution which is called executive compensation. SECTION A Introduction to Executive Compensation: Compensation Management Nature, Significance, Objectives & functions, Elements of compensation, Principles & factors influencing compensation; Theories of Compensation: Economic and Behavi Compensation Management in a Developing Economy; Institutional framework of Compensation Management: Union Govt. laws, Management & Unions objectives of compensation. SECTION B Macro & Micro Economic Compensation Concepts: Compensation in a knowledge based global economy, compensation & non-compensation dimensions; Organization Structure & compensation strategy linking compensation with objectives of the organization; Job analysis, Job description & Job evaluation: Methods & problems, point factor method of job evaluation, Compensation Surveys. SECTION C Designing Executive Compensation: Designing a Pay Structure Graded Broad banding; Pay Delivery Systems, Team based pay; Paying for Performance, Competency & skills & innovation: Issues & Concerns Pay. Fringe benefits & services: Socio Economics psychological rationale of Fringe benefits Communication & administration of fringe benefits; Incentives: Short term & Long term incentives and wealth building; Executive Perks: Types, issues & concerns. The Taxing Components of Executive Compensation. SECTION D Compensation of special groups: Supervisors, Corporate Directors, Executives, Scientists and Engineers, Industrial & Marketing personnel; International pay system: Approaches to executive pay, Japanese, American, German pay system (Budgeting & Compensation System) is globalization of executive pay possible? Executive Compensation: Significance and recent trends in executive compensation, ESOPs etc.

INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Objective: The objective of the course is to acquaint the students about the Psychology of the executives in the organization and then to use it to enhance the productivity. SECTION A Introduction to Industrial Psychology: Meaning, Concept, Nature, Scope & Importance; Individual Differences & their evaluation; Occupational Information and its importance in Industrial Psychology. Selection of right candidate: By Interview & Application Blank; Personnel Test-I: Purpose & Validity of Tests, Types & Uses of Tests: Placement, Promotion etc.; Personnel Tests-II: Kinds of Tests and their efficiency, Tests on the basis of intelligence personality and interests. SECTION B Training: Meaning, Need, Importance of Industrial training, Methods, Individualized training; Human Engineering: Introduction, Time Study, Study Motion Hawthorne Study; Fatigue: Nature, fatigue reduction, fatigue tests, environmental condition, effecting fatigue; Accident Prevention: Introduction, Scope, causes of accidents, Industrial safety programmes. SECTION C Motivation: Introduction, Fundamentals, Financials & Non-Financial aspects; Attitudes & Job Satisfaction: Introduction, Methods of measuring attitudes, Factors influencing job satisfaction, How to increase job satisfaction; Morale & Monotony: Introduction, Measuring morale, Factors affecting morale, How to improve morale monetary: Causes & how to reduce monotony at workplace. SECTION D Personnel Counseling: Objectives, extent & types of Counselling, steps & Techniques of counseling; Psychological aspects of Labour relations: Introduction, group dynamics formal & informal communication, Union Management relations: Sources of conflicts, How to resolve conflicts in organizations; Supervision: Introduction, Meaning and evaluation, practices of high and low producing supervisors, Training supervisors.

STRATEGIC COST MANAGEMENT

Objective: To enable the students to understand cost management system and develop an insight into application of cost analysis from strategic perspective. SECTION A Strategic Cost Management: Meaning, Nature and Significance of Strategic Cost Management, Limitations of Traditional Costing, Difference between Conventional Cost Analysis and Strategic Cost Analysis, Financial, Operational and Strategic Views of Cost, Contemporary Cost Management Tools, Activity Based Costing and Activity Based Management: Treatment of Cost, Steps, Advantages, Disadvantages, Numerical Problems. SECTION B Value Analysis : Meaning of Value Analysis and value addition, Strategic Application of Value Chain Analysis, Strategic Positioning Analysis: Critical Success Factors and SWOT Analysis, Cost Volume Profit Analysis: Cost Behaviour Pattern, Cost Estimation Methods, Assumptions of CVP Analysis, Applications of CVP, Break Even Analysis, CVP Analysis in the choice of Cost Structure, Multiple Product Analysis SECTION C Variance Analysis: Basics of Standard Costs, Material Variances, Labour Variances, Overhead Variances, Difficulties in Measuring Variances, Evaluation of Control based on Standard Costing, Numerical Problems Valuation of Intangible Assets: Meaning of Intangible Assets, Acquired and Generated Assets, Importance, Methods of Valuation for Goodwill, Human Resource, Brands, Patent, Relevant Indian and International accounting standards, Current Scenario in India, Numerical Problems. SECTION D Activity based Responsibility Accounting, Behavioural aspects of responsibility accounting, Transfer Pricing, Performance Evaluation: Traditional Framework of Performance Evaluation, Performance Measurement System, Balanced Scorecard, Implementation, Strengths and Weaknesses of Balance Scorecard, Behavioral Views, Rewards to performance, Incentive Compensation, Productivity improvement: Various tools and techniques including Kaizen and Six Sigma.