The Rising Need for Capacity Building of Healthcare Professionals

As the shortage of quality manpower continues to loom within the healthcare system, there comes a necessity for the industry to consider expanding and enhancing the workforce. It is important to create new opportunities within the industry to mitigate the growing strain on the healthcare resources including limited time, quality manpower, and accessibility to care. As such, enhancing the capacity of healthcare professionals is one of the much-needed approaches to improve the quality of care and create a more competent workforce.

When it comes to working in the healthcare system, there are challenges that every healthcare professional is posed with. To overcome these challenges and practically manage the adversities, it is vital that healthcare professionals are given the resources to meet their specific capacity building and training needs. Creating a learning environment that provides with all the essentials to support capacity building in healthcare professionals is necessary, and that’s what we, at IIHMR, are keen on delivering.

What is Capacity Building All About?

Understanding the training needs of healthcare professionals can help improve overall healthcare delivery and patient care. Capacity building or capacity development in healthcare professionals is all about providing the needed resources for individuals to obtain, improve, and retain their knowledge and skills needed to do their work competently. It often implies the strengthening of skills, core competencies, and abilities of the professionals to achieve organizational goals. However, capacity-building is much more than just the acquisition and transfer of knowledge and skills to competent individuals. Effective capacity-building includes improving the overall performance of the organization, its systems, and the entire sector. This is why it is crucial that aspirants choose the right institution that prepares them for the industry and equips them with the needed academic, technical, and operational abilities and resources to carry them forward in the future. In that sense, IIHMR, Delhi has been striving to provide educational and capacity building resources for the students, at both the individual and organizational levels, so that their knowledge, skills, and resources could showcase substantial improvements in their performance across the sector.

Capacity building is often equated with individual training and practice-oriented training offered to graduates. Indeed, capacity building is a means to achieve organizational goals. Keeping this in mind, healthcare providers today are looking for employees who are specially trained with practical focus and are equipped with appropriate skills and experience to handle specific tasks within the healthcare. Efficient capacity building initiatives will help harness the skills and abilities in professionals and therefore enable them to work more effectively in handling the organizational needs. To that end, IIHMR, one of the premier healthcare institutions in the country, has developed standardized curriculum and competencies with a more practical focus on capacity building of individuals to target deployment of healthcare professionals more effectively.

How IIHMR Contributes to Capacity Building of its Students?

International Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR), Delhi, has been consistently focusing on providing top-notch management education to the aspirants, creating new avenues of knowledge acquisition and training. The institute concentrates on improving various areas of healthcare from management education and training to research and development of the healthcare system in India. The Institute has significantly contributed to several areas of healthcare research management in the country.

IIHMR has emerged as a leading training institution in India that targets to improve management practices in health systems. We strive to develop knowledge and skills of management among healthcare professionals, managers, trainers, and research scientists. Various management development programs that contribute to skills development are implemented for students to acquire adequate skills and knowledge in healthcare management.

We, at IIHMR, offers a two-year full-time Postgraduate Programme in Hospital and Health Management that aims at developing trained professional healthcare managers with requisite skills and abilities for the industry. The cutting-edge curriculum at IIHMR has the flexibility to adapt and quickly respond to the changing needs of the sector.

Developing the right mix of academic, managerial, and leadership skills for students to engage in various levels of healthcare is an important mission for the institution. We prepare students to become efficient managers and leaders for the industry with adept abilities in planning, management, and decision-making by helping them acquire communication skills, consultancy skills, and more. The customized and flagship programs at IIHMR are curated based on the industry requirements of skilled manpower to ensure better hospital management and quality of patient care. This is done through a series of capacity development programs, customized training programs, and workshops that improve management practices in healthcare systems and develop knowledge and skills of management among the professionals.

Over the years, IIHMR has acquired the reputation of an apex healthcare management institute in the country for its excellence in academic education and capacity development. We, at IIHMR, prepare healthcare professionals with adequacy to manage hospitals and large healthcare institutions, in both the public and private sectors. Our key emphasis lies on strengthening the technical and managerial capacity building of individuals to enable them to work at different levels in the healthcare domain and train them with efficiency to meet the rising demand for quality healthcare.