| |19 December 2021HIGHERReviewindependent healthcare industry re-lated project and which develop their industry specific specialization, ul-timately helping students in campus recruitment and progressing swiftly in their careers. "We are aiming to create leaders and high-quality management profes-sionals in the field of healthcare. In Goa, we have tie-ups with almost all the top healthcare organizations and they offer their facilities for practical exposure to our students. The stu-dents also do live projects in these organizations which are evaluated by our faculty. Industry experts regular-ly visit our campus to interact with the students and various healthcare companies contact us for hiring our students. Most of our faculty are into research and consulting and we sup-port them in these ventures as well. Various faculty members from our institute have published papers in top research journals and conduct corpo-rate training programs for businesses business leaders. HCM programme has received series of funding from organizations like WHO and Har-vard university for undertaking prestigious studies in the field of healthcare. Our international tie-ups provide opportunity for our students to visit and study at reputed foreign universities and gain exposure there as well. We also have instances where students from international universi-ties visit our campus to be a part of various projects. As of now, we are also preparing for a couple of very prestigious accreditations including AACSB which is one of the world's best accreditations for any manage-ment college and the second one is AMBA accreditation. Apart from this, we already have AICTE and NBA accreditations as well", says, Dr. Arif Raza, Chairperson, PGDM (HCM) programme, GIM, when asked about the unique learning op-portunities that the institute offers to the students. Wholesome Education for Holistic Development Talking more about the extracurricu-lar activities and the holistic learning philosophy of GIM, Dr. Arif adds, "We aim for the holistic development of our students and we have various student-run clubs. We also conduct various panel discussions where in-dustry experts interact with our students and sensitize them around the latest industry practices. Apart from that, we conduct co-curricu-lar activities like business quizzes, debates, extempore, book reading, film reviews that helps in holistic de-velopment of students. The institute has an incubation center in support with the Government of India under the ATAL incubation scheme, where some of our students with entrepre-neurial ideas get help in establishing their own businesses. In addition to preparing our students for a career in business, we also sensitize our stu-dents towards societal needs and their responsibilities towards the same. For this, we conduct a Give-Goa Health program, under which students are attached to a specific NGO work-ing in healthcare field. The students work for a cause with help of this NGO and in return understand the needs of under-privileged people in a much better manner. With this our students are not just best in the field of healthcare business but also aware citizens that contribute towards the development of the society". The quality of the students that graduate from GIM is further show-cased in the companies that hire their students. Some of the top recruiters at GI include Infosys, Hexaware, Medline, ConvaTec, Bosch, Johnson & Johnson, Narayna Health to name a few. Going forward, GIM has plans to improve the quality of their edu-cation even more and attract inter-national students to their campus. With all this, the institute is aiming to be the epitome of top-notch man-agement education in the country and make their presence known in the global higher education realm. We are aiming to create leaders and high-quality management professionals in the field of healthcareHEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTES - 2021HIGHER EDUCATIONReviewTOP 10
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