Jaipur, One of the globally
recognized and leading healthcare research organization of the country, IIHMR University,
is inviting applications for a three year full time PhD programme in the health
sector with a multidisciplinary focus. The areas of research include public
health, health and hospital management, nursing management, pharmaceutical
management, population and reproductive health, health economics and finance,
urban health, rural health, health nutrition, health communication and behavior
change, information technology in the health sector, health systems and related
areas. The doctoral program is open to
postgraduates and health professionals in the field of management, public
health and medicine, nursing, ISM, health economics and finance, demography,
and allied sciences.
There are 20 Seats in the PhD programme for 2016-18 batch.
There are 20 Seats in the PhD programme for 2016-18 batch.
The PhD Program broadly aims at building and
strengthening research capacity in the management of health care in order to
improve the standards of health of people through accessible, affordable and
equitable health services. The PhD programme aims to build capacity in research
to strengthen health systems through enhanced efficiency and effectiveness,
developing evidence based policies, strategies and interventions in the health
sector, developing high quality human resources for conducting management
research in health care in the area of policy, strategy and program management,
and evaluation, developing outstanding academicians and management
Professionals for higher level management teaching and research in postgraduate
institutions, universities, health care industry, and government and consulting
organizations. The program is designed to enable the students to meet the needs
of research competency and skills of postgraduates, researchers, academicians
and teachers, health administrators and mid-career health care professionals in
private and government health sectors in policy and program management research
in the health sector including hospitals, health systems and services,
pharmaceutical management.
Masters’ Degree or Post Graduate Diploma in
Management (PGDM) from a UGC/AICTE recognized institution or university, with
at least 55% marks (or equivalent grade) for general and OBC category and 50%
marks for SC and ST candidates in hospital and health management, general
management, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, health informatics, social and
behavioral sciences, economics, commerce, science, demography and statistics. Faculty
in the teaching institutions, researchers/ scientists in research organizations
and working professionals with relevant qualifications and experience are
encouraged to join the program and will be given preference in selection. The
IIHMR University encourages working professionals (health administrators,
policy makers, medical/ nursing and management professionals) to undertake the
PhD Program to enhance competence in evidence based research for policy and program
development. They will be given adequate weight age in admission. Such
candidates should have minimum five years experience of working in the health
sector.
The minimum program duration is three years
including period of registration. Registration in PhD is subject to passing
qualifying examination which will be based on the course work in the first year
of the program. Program has three important mile stones; namely; course work
with 32 credits; writing research proposal and data collection; and thesis
writing and submission.
The maximum period allowable to complete PhD is five years. The candidate will have to re-register if he/she does not complete PhD in 5 years.
The maximum period allowable to complete PhD is five years. The candidate will have to re-register if he/she does not complete PhD in 5 years.
The admission process will include three steps:
screening of applications, IIHMR Research Aptitude Test (IRAT) and personal
interview. The IIHMR University will conduct a qualifying test after screening
of applications and short-listing candidates. IRAT will be a written test
consisting of multiple choice questions from English language proficiency,
reasoning, basic quantitative analysis and research aptitude. UGC / CSIR qualified JRF & NET in
Management or related subjects, senior health professionals and teaching
faculty in government/private sector with experience of 10 years and above are
categories which will be exempted from writing the IRAT. Personal interview will be conducted on the
same day or next day after IRAT at
IIHMR, Jaipur. All categories of candidates will be required to appear in the
Personal Interview (PI). The last date for submission of the Application Form
is January 15, 2016 IRAT & Personal Interview is February 05-06, 2016.
IIHMR University boasts of an unmatched list of
faculty members. Spread across 14 acres with the best infrastructure
facilities, the IIHMR University also offers hostel facility within the campus
with sports and recreation facilities for its students.
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