CHENNAI: What to do after class 10 or 12? A perennial question, with the usual answer of engineering or medicine. However, at a career counselling session organised by The Sankara Nethralaya Academy, a unit of the Medical Research Foundation, here on Sunday young people had an opportunity to discover a whole range of courses in the healthcare sector that could help them build good careers.Dr R Karthikeyan, director, Gemba School of HR, who conducted the session, said, “The healthcare service sector is booming. There are many career opportunities here, with institutions offering courses to enhance their specialised manpower. Sankara Nethralaya is offering many such specialised diploma courses.”The diplomas in Ophthalmic (Nursing) Assistant, Operation Theatre and Anaesthesia Technology, Medical Record Science, Nursing Aide are all courses recognised by the TN Dr MGR Medical University.In the Ophthalmic Assistant course, the students learn about ocular disease and its causes. They learn to assist in ophthalmic surgical procedures, to provide pre and post-operative care to patients and to act as primary and secondary resources to patients, care givers and healthcare professionals.The Operation Theatre and Anaesthesia Technology course teaches students to assist the anaesthetist, surgeon or nurse in various procedures and to sterilise and disinfect OT rooms following NABH protocols.Understanding the value, purpose and use of medical record maintenance in hospitals, how to upgrade medical service by usage of electronic medical record systems (microfilming), preparing and analysing status reports of patients’ condition, medico-legal ethics and an understanding of general and medical insurance acts of the Government of India are covered by the Medical Record Science course.Pursuing a diploma for a Nursing Aide brings understanding of community health services and health promotion procedures, the physiology of the human body, basic sanitation and hygiene and how to work on improving care and immunisation services.These are two-year courses. They offer a three-year BSc (Medical Laboratory Technology) degree course and a postgraduate MBA (Hospital& Health Systems Management) programme. There is a one-year online eMBA in Hospital Management, a certificate course in Hospital Management and from this academic year a two-year diploma in Refraction & Dispensing is starting.Karthick, who has completed his Class 12 and came from Pondicherry to attend this session, said, “This has been very useful. I want to take up the lab course.”Sharon attended the session for her sister’s sake and said, “I want to put my sister in the Ophthalmic Nursing course. I found the session very useful.”A Mahalingam, academic officer, The Sankara Nethralaya Academy, said, “Our courses are designed to get the students jobs. Students who cannot afford to go to college will definitely find jobs after the diploma courses.”For more details, contact 9710485295 or log on to www.thesnacademy.ac.in
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