Specializations for Doctors

MAJOR

DEFINITIONS/ DESCRIPTION

SPECIALIZATIONS

Public health

The approach to medicine that is concerned with the health of the community as a whole.

The goal of public health is to improve lives through the prevention or treatment of disease

These goals are achieved through methods like
• Vaccination (Treatment and prevention of disease),
• Fluoridation of drinking water
• Or through policies seatbelt or Non-smoking laws etc..,

Concentrations

• Epidemiology
• Biostatistics
• Environmental health
• Occupational health
Health services
 

• Epidemiology
• Biostatistics
• Environmental health
• Occupational health
• Health services

Health care administration

 This course gives greater understanding of management issues and prepare them for senior management roles.

The core aim of this major is to improve organizations related to health care by
• Managing finance
• Understand and comply with health policies and laws
• Managing functions of health care organizations

Concentrations
• Liberal arts
• General management
• Health services

Health services management

• Health services organizations and delivery
• Financial management
• Law and government regulation

General management

• Function areas of management(Accounting, marketing, computer applications)
• Theories of management

Liberal arts

• Communication
• Critical thinking

Molecular biology

The study of structural and functional properties of biological systems, pursued within the context of understanding the roles of the various macromolecules in living cells and the relationship between them.

You will learn about
• Cell metabolism
• Cell differentiation
• Applying principles of chemistry to biological systems
• Structure and functions of proteins and nucleic acids
• Gene function and regulation
• Protein biosynthesis etc..

Special emphasis is placed on role of proteins and nucleic acids in cellular process.

Concentrations

• Structural biology
• Molecular genetics
• Molecular medicine
• Pharmacogenetics
• Computational biology

General biology
Organic chemistry
Cellular biology
Biostatistics
Biochemistry
General microbiology
 

Hospital Administration

Hospital administration, as the name indicates it deals with administration of hospitals.

This major teaches the concepts of

• Hospital planning,
• Management skills
• Financial management
• Operation and supply chain management in hospitals
• Hospital Ethics and Laws.

Concentrations

• Hospital Economics
• Finance management.
• Marketing and health services.
• Hospital ethics and laws

Principles of Management
Health and Hospital Economics
Accounting for Hospitals
Hospital Planning
Hospital Information System
 

Sports Medicine

It deals with learning in the skills to
• Prevent
• Evaluate
• Treat the injuries and related illness caused by athletics while involving in sports or some physical activity or exercises

Concentrations
• Pharmacology
• Pathology
• Sports training and injuries
• Sports massage
• Injury diagnosis
 

Advanced sports massage
Deep tissue massage
Anatomy and Physiology
Nutritional therapies
Pharmacology
Clinical skills
 

Physical Therapy

Physical therapy deals with prevention, diagnosis and treating conditions that effect a person’s movement and functional independence.

Concentrations
• Anatomy and Physiology
• Orthopedics
• Pathology
• Pharmacology
• Biology

Biology
Anatomy and Physiology
Physics
Orthopedics
Health policy
 

Health Information technology

The study of health information technology deals with the resources, devices and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval and use of information in health and biomedicine for improve health care system

Concentrations
• Bioinformatics
• Health care informatics
• Public health informatics
• Clinical research informatics
 

Health care informatics
Public health informatics
Clinical research informatics
Bioinformatics
Dental informatics