Management of medicare
The Hindu
What are some healthcare-related management tools that should become part of medical and nursing school curricula?
The ongoing pandemic has clearly shown that to drive patient outcomes, doctors require both clinical skills and managerial techniques. Traditionally, doctors are not trained to handle the various problems they face in practice, and this skill becomes even more necessary in the case of an emergency like COVID-19. What are some healthcare-related management tools that should become part of medical and nursing school curricula?
All clinicians, regardless of their speciality, should be trained in basics of Healthcare Management. This can be inculcated into the undergraduate curricula as part of the Social and Preventive Medicine module or as a separate course on ‘Basics of Management Principles and Practices.’ This should include essentials of interpersonal communication, be it with patients, patients’ families, subordinates, peers or colleagues, and media. Technical communication skills are equally important as one goes up the ladder and assumes more administrative responsibilities. A clinical career is a high-intensity practice, especially in the areas of intensive care, surgery and high-end diagnostics procedures, where winning the trust of the patient or his/her family and well as communicating with clarity, though underrated, is of prime importance.