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  • Diabetes Education
  • Medical Informatics

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Diabetes Education  
Eligibility: B.Sc Graduate, B.Sc Nursing, B.Sc Nutrition or Equivalent. This course is intended to train those who would assist doctors in their clinic to counsel patients about diet, initiate insulin therapy, provide psychological support, etc., on an individual basis
and also conduct group education sessions on diabetes to patients and their relatives.
Job opportunity: This vocational course will enable successful candidates to be posted as diabetes Educators in clinics or hospitals specialising in diabetes.
 
Medical Informatics  
Eligibility: Medicine or Engineering / IT graduates are preferred. Candidates with B.Sc. degree in any biological science, physics, mathematics, chemistry can also apply. The course content will be mainly the same as detailed in M.Sc. Medical Informatics. However, the course duration is only one year.
Job opportunity: Same as specified in M.Sc Medical Informatics.
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B.Sc. In Medical Radiologic Technology (B.Sc.MRT)

It is a four year degree programme. It provides knowledge and skill development in understanding and applying the principles of science and medicine as they relate to medical radiological and other imaging, as well as radiotherapy. The student will become technically competent in the techniques of diagnostic imaging and the therapeutic use of radiation.The student will be well versed in handling of highly sophisticated medical imaging and therapeutic equipment related to these specialties. The course content includes:

  • Anatomy, pathology and physiology
  • Medical imaging and radiation oncology equipment
  • Professionalism and patient care
  • Radiobiology and radiation protection
  • General radiology and radiotherapy techniques
  • Specialized radiologic and imaging procedures in MRI , CT, DSA, Mammography, Cardiology, Orthopaedic, Urology etc.
  • Specialized radiotherapy procedures like 3D CRT, IMRT, SRT and SRS etc.
Eligibility: First class in 10 + 2
Job opportunity: B.Sc.(MRT) graduates may find employment as technologists in a radio-diagnosis/radiation oncology department, in hospitals, radiology clinics, Medical Colleges, or as specialists in computed tomography, mammography, MRI , Cardiology, in Medical clinics, colleges of veterinary medicine, scientific companies, or in education.
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