| |9 December 2020HIGHERReviewIn a hi-tech world of modern healthcare, the need for a team approach in sustaining life is essential and it takes people with varying skills and expertise to form that teamuse all the help that they can get from every individual possible. When you study to be a healthcare professional, you are trained in every way possible to ensure you are fit for the clinical practice. In addition, the variety to choose from are almost endless. Each program will provide and ensure you have three important things,· Classroom teaching with advanced pedagogy· Incorporation of clinical and bed side teaching in the hospital for the excellent clinical skills in the specialty· Rotatory Internships training programClassroom TeachingAs boring as it sounds, a classroom teaching plays an important role in laying the base for your medical journey. It teaches you the basics and the rules by which you should abide for a successful career. It also helps lay the foundation to help you help your patients.Incorporation of Clinical and Bed Side Teaching in PracticePractically, every student has to have a hands-on experience. If you are only studying theory, it will not help you later on because the entire career of a healthcare provider is practical. A hands on experience will ensure that you get to apply everything that you have learnt, helping you understand and work better.Rotatory InternshipsAt the end of every course, there is bound to be an internship where you get to work in a real hospital filled with actual patients. The experience of doing an internship will help ease you into the workforce, adding knowledge, practice, experience and the understanding of how everything you have studied is being applied in the healthcare sector.With adequate knowledge of what you are specialising in and the interest to help people, healthcare providers are some of the most important people in a hospital. They provide the first aid for a patient and ensure that whatever they come in with is properly diagnosed and sometimes treated. Health care providers play a big role in comforting and being there morally for their patients, thus making their job all the more important. In the lives of every patient, there have been several health care providers who have made a great impact by being a positive force encouraging their wellbeing. This noble profession is just as supportive as any other profession and at the end of the day, every health care provider's greatest pride is that, they help protect lives.Dr. G. Arun Maiya is an alumnus of MAHE and the recipient of Dr. TMA Pai Endowment Chair in Exercise Sciences & Health Promotion. Presently he is chief coordinator for Centre for Diabetic Foot Care & Research, MAHE and is heading the prestigious research grant funded by World Diabetes Foundation (WDF) `Diabetic Foot care: Stepping ahead'. Dr. Maiya has published more than 141 research articles including three systematic reviews in peer reviewed indexed journals. Dr. G Arun Maiya, Dean
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