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IIM Calcutta
Post Graduate Certificate in
Healthcare Management (PGCHM)
Programme Overview
The Indian healthcare sector is growing at a tremendous pace and is projected to become
a US$ 280 billion industry by 2020. IIM Calcutta’s Post Graduate Certificate in Healthcare
Management (PGCHM) programme aims to address the specific needs of aspiring healthcare
practitioners and administrators by offering a combination of academic modules and hands-
on practical experience by way of Industry Immersion Programme (IIP). The programme
will give participants a rigorous and comprehensive exposure to healthcare management,
engaging with developments and debates in the global and Indian healthcare industry, public
health perspectives, and health systems management. PGCHM is designed in particular to
impart cutting-edge management education to variously trained healthcare professionals.

Learning Outcomes
Developing interdisciplinary orientation towards healthcare management
Delivering customised management education to healthcare professionals
Training participants in managerial leadership
Familiarising participants with innovation and entrepreneurship in the healthcare sector
Sensitising participants with macro policy in the national and global context
Inculcating comparative framework in relation to healthcare challenges of
developing countries
 From the President’s Desk 1

Programme Highlights 2

Index Programme Content 3-4

Programme Delivery 5

Pedagogy 6

Programme Directors 7

Programme Fee Structure 8

About IIM Calcutta 9

About Times TSW 10

Times Professional Learning –
President’s Message
Greetings from The Second Wind (TSW), a sub-brand of Times
Professional Learning, the award-winning education initiative of India’s
leading media conglomerate, The Times of India Group.
Education 4.0 is a movement in response to the needs and demands of
Industry 4.0. This has led to a paradigm shift in the approach, curricula,
pedagogy, teaching methodology, manner of engagement, and mode
Anish Srikrishna of delivery, as well as assessment and evaluation metrics in education,
President & CEO
especially executive education.
TSW embodies the revolution in learning that Education 4.0 symbolises: Learner-centric,
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We partner and collaborate with Indian and global centres of learning excellence to offer
career-defining executive education programmes, designed for working professionals
who seek to stay invested in the knowledge economy by upgrading their professional
qualifications.
We engage with an evolving and demanding community of learners and transform them into
winning individuals equipped for a knowledge-based and competency-led, productive career
in a disruptive Industry 4.0.
TSW leverages its pan-India network of state-of-the-art Learning Centres; technology
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Programme
Highlights

One-of-its-kind, one-year full time Academic modules plus industry

residential programme immersion programme and
capstone project

Pedagogical blend of Guest lectures, leadership

participant presentations and seminars and other
discussions, case studies, academic interactions with
classroom lectures healthcare industry experts

IIM Calcutta certification

with Alumni status

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Programme Structure & Content
(I) Pre-Term 1 Orientation (1 Week)
• Introduction to quantitative and qualitative methods
• Introduction to case pedagogy

Term 1 (7 Weeks)
1) Healthcare Context: Global health trends & overview of the Indian healthcare sector
2) Healthcare Economics
3) Health Systems Management – I
• Operations & Supply chain management
• Technology & Healthcare
4) Leadership and Management -I
• Organisational design & change
• Human resources management
5) Healthcare Analytics

Term 2 (7 Weeks)
1) Financial and Managerial Accounting
2) Public Health
3) Health Systems Management -2
• Strategic Management
• Marketing & Healthcare
4) Leadership and Management -II
• Leadership styles
• Conflict and Negotiation
5) Managerial Communication

Term 3 (12 – 16 Weeks)

Industry Immersion Programme (IIP)
The IIP is meant to bridge the gap between real-life experience and academic learning. It
enables students to experience the rigours of the process of delivery of services in healthcare
organisations.

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Term 4 (7 – 8 Weeks)
1) Contemporary Healthcare Conversations
• Human Values & Ethics; Social Justice
• Governance: Disaster Management, Refugees, Epidemics
• Occupational Health in Developing Countries
2) Health Law
3) Entrepreneurship in the Healthcare Sector
4) Capstone Project
In-class modules will be supplemented with mentored independent study spread across
in-campus terms.

(II) Capstone Project

Participants have to do a compulsory individual and group project based on a topic
of their choice related to the Healthcare sector, in addition to the independent study.
Non-completion of this project would lead to incomplete grade in the programme. Each
project would be under the guidance of a faculty from IIM Calcutta. The project would be
graded by the faculty guide.

(III) Industry Immersion Programme (IIP)

The IIP is meant to bridge the gap between real-life experience and academic learning.
It enables students to experience the rigors of the process of delivery of services in
healthcare organisations.

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Programme Delivery
This is a one-year, full-time residential programme conducted by IIM Calcutta faculty at
the campus in Kolkata. Course delivery is through face-to-face sessions during the first
6/7 months with a two-week gap in between. This will be followed with the Industry
Immersion Programme(IIP) for the next 3/4 months. The IIP will be followed with face-
to-face classes at IIM Calcutta.

Assessment & Evaluation

IIM Calcutta shall carry out the examination and evaluation required for certification.
Giving feedback is an integral part of the completion requirements of the programme.

Evaluation methodology includes written tests, assignments, online examination,

capstone project etc. Evaluation method to be chosen by faculty members teaching
respective courses
Note:
IIM C will not be able to provide family accommodation to any participant.
Accommodation will be provided to participants on twin sharing basis. The fee will not include food
expenses for participants. There are several canteens in the campus from where the participants will be
required to make their own food arrangements. No family accommodation can be provided.
IIMC will provide “IIMC Executive Education Alumni” status to all participants who receive the “Certificate
of Successful Completion” of the programme.

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Certification
Participants are evaluated on the basis of examinations for all the courses. Participants
will be given any one of the following grades: ‘Excellent’, ‘Good’, ‘Fair’, or ‘Poor’. Those
getting not more than two ‘Poor’ grades will get a certificate of successful completion
of the programme and the course-wise grade list will be mentioned in the certificate.
Those getting more than two ‘Poor’ grades will get only a certificate of participation in
the programme. In such cases, the grade list will not be mentioned in the certificate.
Attendance is a very important criterion for the successful completion of the
programme. Also, giving feedback is an integral part of the completion requirements
of the programme.

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 Pedagogy
The Programme will be highly experiential and
interactive. Besides the unique pedagogy, active
participation in the academically rich, collaborative,
and vibrant community life at IIM Calcutta,
distinguishes the programme from many others of
its kind in India

Classroom lectures
Expert presentations
Case studies
Participant presentations
Capstone Project
Industry Immersion Programme (IIP)

Who Should Attend?

Healthcare professionals in general, and specifically, hospital administrators, doctors,
professionals from medical and allied sectors such as pharmaceuticals and medical
insurance as well as healthcare entrepreneurs.

Eligibility Criteria
Medical practitioners and administrators with MBBS/BDS/BAMS degree
or equivalent recognised by UGC/AICTE/MCI or equivalent. Students with
biotechnology and biomedical background can apply too. Students from other
disciplines with experience in the healthcare sector are also eligible.
Applicants need to have minimum 50% marks (aggregate - considering results of
all years) in graduation/post-graduation.
Work Experience: Minimum 2 years of experience in healthcare as on application
closure date.

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PROGRAMME DIRECTORS

Rajesh Bhattacharya
Associate Professor,
Public Policy & Management

After B.Sc., M.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees in Economics from the University of Calcutta, Rajesh
Bhattacharya earned a doctorate (Ph.D. in Economics) from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, USA. His teaching experience before joining IIM Calcutta includes stints as
Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Assistant
Professor (Lecturer and Senior Lecturer), Jogamaya Devi College, Kolkata; Guest Lecturer,
Department of Economics, University of Calcutta. He has collaborated and contributed to
numerous journal articles, book reviews, reports, books and is frequently invited to speak
at various conferences. His research interests include informal economy, urban political
economy, social sector policies, planning and Indian economic development, and Indian
perspectives in social sciences.

Devi Vijay
Associate Professor,
Organisational Behaviour

A Ph.D. from IIM Bangalore, Devi Vijay’s current work examines inequality, vulnerable
communities, and mobilisation, with a focus on healthcare. She has been tracing the
evolution of the community-based form for palliative care in Kerala, and its translations to
other geographies. She has recently co-edited, “Alternative Organisations in India: Undoing
Boundaries” (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and has published in journals such as Public
Management Review, Marketing Theory, and Journal of Marketing Management. She was
awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2016) and was a visiting
fellow at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University during the grant period.

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Programme Fee Structure
Application + Processing Fee INR 20,000 (INR 2500/- + INR 17500/-)

Programme Fee INR 11,10,000/-

Excludes GST at 18%

Collection of Fee:
Processing fee of INR 20,000 (INR 2500/- + INR 17500/-) will be collected at the time of application.
This entire amount will be refundable in case the participant’s profile is rejected by IIM Calcutta. INR
17500/- will be adjusted with the fee in case the participant gets selected and registers for
the programme.

Payment Schedule
I II III IV V
19th January, 2020 15th May 2020 15th July 2020 15th Sept 2020 15th Nov 2020

*INR 2,32,500/- *INR 2,00,000/- *INR 2,50,000/- *INR 2,00,000/- *INR 2,10,000/-

GST will be charged extra on these components

Important Dates
Round I- Interview Date Sunday, 22nd Dec 2019
Result of selected candidates
One week later
from Round I
First installment of fees
Sunday, 19th January, 2020
(Last date) APPLY NOW
Orientation and Programme
Monday, 16th March, 2020
Start Date

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Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Spread across 135 acres, it was the first Indian Institute of Management to be established
in 1961.

Worldwide, the Financial Times has ranked IIM Calcutta #23 in its Master’s in
Management Ranking 2018 and #49 in its Global MBA Ranking 2019.

In India, IIM Calcutta was ranked #3 among management schools by the National
Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2018 and #34 overall. It was also ranked
#2 by Business Today’s ‘India’s best B-schools 2017’and by Outlook India’s ‘Top 100
Management Schools’ of 2017

IIM Calcutta is the first and only triple accredited management school from India (and
one amongst 86 such business schools globally) to have accreditation from Association
to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), European Quality Improvement
System (EQUIS) and Association of MBAs (AMBA). It is also the only Indian business
school that is a member of the Global Alliance in Management Education (CEMS).

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About Times TSW
The Second Wind (TSW) is an initiative by Times
Professional Learning for working professionals who are
keen to hone their skills to add value to their work for a Speed with Execution Excellence
more rewarding career.
Learner Centricity

TSW’s passion for excellence and a brief that “Executive Innovation Culture
Education Empowers” works hand in hand with the Integrity
organization’s aim to impart knowledge to business
professionals nationwide. Enduring Engagement

About Times Group

The Times of India Group began its operations in
the year 1838 and is India’s oldest and largest media
house. The Times of India, is the world’s largest-selling
English newspaper, with over 5 million copies sold
daily.

The Economic Times is the world’s 2nd largest English

business newspaper after The Wall Street Journal, with
over 800,000 copies sold daily.

The Group is also amongst India’s most diverse media

house with assets across Publishing, Radio, TV, Out-of-
Home (OOH) and Online Media.

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