07-05-2025
'Future holds promise for allied healthcare sciences, too'
For those planning for a career in the domain of healthcare, but are unable to secure MBBS entry, other rewarding options in allied areas were specified by accomplished medical professionals during The Hindu Education Plus Career Counselling Fair 2025 in Coimbatore in Wednesday.
Nursing, Food and Nutrition, Physiotherapy, and Occupational Therapy offer opportunities in the clinical side while pharmacy, insurance, finance, advertising and business development, reception, hospital administration.
The placement opportunities for students pursuing programmes in dialysis, radiology technology, and para-medical courses was quite high.
These observations were presented by P. Praveen Raj, Joint Managing Director and CEO of GEM Hospitals and J.S. Bhuvaneshwaran, Director of PSG Super Speciality Hospitals during a discussion on 'Prescribe Your Future' moderated by R. Saravana Kumar, former Chairman of Computer Society of India (Coimbatore) and former Director at Cognizant.
For instance, a Radiation Physicist earns higher at the start than an doctor with MBBS qualification, Dr. Bhuvaneshwaran said.
Those with strong expertise in finance, rather than medical doctors, are the right fit to administer the hospitals. Not all large hospital groups are run by medical professionals, Dr. Praveen Raj explained seeking to highlight the role of candidates with Mathematics in the domain of finance in healthcare sphere.
On the perception that robotics and AI will impact the job market in medical field, they explained that validation would inevitably warrant human intervention. Technology can only shorten the duration of decision-making.
Those making a foray into MBBS must be conscious of the need to spend at least six to seven additional years for completing post-graduation and specialisation, said Dr. Bhuvaneshwaran.
