What is medical tourism?how can i apply for that course?what type of job facilities are there?...what is medical transportation?BHMS finalyr
Medical tourism basically refers to people travelling from their country to another country in order to receive medical care (various types) that is equal to or better than the care available in their own country. People travel to the new country for better care, affordability and better access.
The following courses are available:
1. Certificate
2. Diploma
3. Postgraduate Diploma
4. MBA
Depending on what exactly you are aiming for, you can choose from the aforementioned courses.
ICRI and Medvarsity are two of the few colleges that are providing courses in medical tourism.
Eligibility:
Graduate or 10+2/equivalent exam
As in your case, you are about to complete your graduation.
Job Prospects:
There are various positions that you can apply for, including but not limited to medical tourism provider/facilitator, hospital administrator and many more.
The job of a medical tourism facilitator requires you to have extensive knowledge of the healthcare sector of our country along with its laws, rules and regulations. For eg: best place for so and so treatment, most affordable, best facilities with respect to treatment needed, visa restrictions. Apart from these obvious duties, you need to provide visa and lodgings. All in all, you serve as the link between the foreign tourists/patients and our healthcare providers. So, naturally, it also involves the language barrier and the communication solution for it. You can further provide post treatment tourism.
*I read one more question that you have posted regarding MHA, I'd like to inform you that employers generally prefer medical tourism along with hospital administration. So, I suggest that it would be a really good combination.
Hope this helps!
All the best.
Dear Arundhati, Medical tourism is a relatively new but rapidly expanding field in which patients suffering from various disorders seek medical care outside of their countries for a host of reasons, including lower cost of treatment, unavailability of similar treatment in their own countries, or for the chance to not only be treated, but also have the opportunity to engage in recreational and recuperative activities over the course of their visit to a particular country. Medical tourism has taken off in a big way in India over the last 15 years, what with world-class allopathy-based medical and auxiliary facilities being provided by hospitals all over the country in addition to popular and time-tested alternative medical treatments like Ayurveda and Unani. 2018 is expected to see India become home to a 6 billion dollar medical tourism industry, with the number of medical tourists expected to double from the current 2.3 lakh to almost 4 lakh. This only indicates that the demand for qualified medical tourism professionals is going to rapidly increase across different branches of the health and wellness sector. Medical tourism courses in India are offered by reputed institutions either through online or distance learning programmes. Graduates in any discipline including Allopathy, Ayurveda, Dentistry, Unani, Nursing and Homeopathy are eligible to apply. Some of the courses offered include the: 1. One-year Post Graduate Diploma in Medical Tourism (PGDMT) offered as a distance learning course by Symbiosis Centre of Health Care, Pune, 2. 3 month-long web-based Certificate Course in Medical Tourism offered by Medvarsity run by Apollo Hospitals, 3. 4-6 months long Professional Diploma in Medical Tourism & Healthcare Marketing Program (PDMT-HM) online course offered by James Lind Institute, 4. 3 month long course for Certification in Medical Tourism (CMT) offered by the Institute of Clinical Research India (ICRI). After taking one of these qualifications, you can work in any field involving healthcare, hospitality and operations in diverse roles including as an executive in medical support services, travel coordinator, travel adviser, in sales and business development, international business development and even finance and administration. The field of medical transportation on the other hand is still in a very nascent stage and not much is known about it in India. It mainly involves training doctors and nurses in the field of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) through various travel mediums including air ambulances, medical taxis or road ambulances. Symbiosis Institute of Health Sciences, Pune, offers a one year PG Diploma in Emergency Medical Services (PGDEMS), in collaboration with the Los Angeles Paramedic Training Institute and Department of Transportation, USA, which is open to BHMS graduates as well. Students are placed in reputed hospitals and other EMS organizations. Hope this information helps! All the best!
