Sub: Calendar of Training Programmes, Seminars, and Workshops - 2005 - 2006

1. The Indian Society of Health Administrators, (ISHA) is a public association of professionals and administrators interested in health and development. It was established in 1979. Its primary objective is to help bridge the gap between the actual and desirable state of health services in India through development of health professionals and administrators towards effective management of resources. It wishes to achieve its objective through annual conferences, training programmes, research studies, and publications. For the last twenty-three years, ISHA has been organizing 40-50 training programmes each year. About 120,000 professionals and administrators have so far participated. ISHA has also been conducting one-year hospital administration programmes through its several regional chapters.

2.  We are happy to announce the Training Programmes, Seminars, Conferences, and Workshops scheduled during 2005-2006 at the national level. This folder gives the details. Besides these, ISHA is scheduled to conduct a large number of programmes to meet the needs of the Central Government, State Governments, International Organizations, Public and Private Sector Industrial Organizations, Corporate, and Private Hospitals.

3.  These programmes are for senior medical, health, nursing, non-medical administrators, and executives in government, private, and industrial organizations, health professional training institutions, voluntary, and international organizations.

4.  There is a nominal fee for the training programmes which covers faculty, course materials, stationery, lunches, tea/coffee, certificates, group photographs, and field trips. Concessional fee is charged to Life and Institutional Members of ISHA, and voluntary social organizations engaged in community health. The programme brochures give further details, which are printed three months in advance, and mailed out to all interested individuals, and organizations. Due to administrative reasons, some programmes may be deferred or re-scheduled. Kindly do not send the participants in response to the calendar but only in response to the brochure, after getting confirmation from ISHA. If a participant shows up in response to our calendar, we are not responsible for inconvenience. And, no letter will be issued.

5.  Should you like us to organize a programme specifically to meet your needs, we shall be happy to assist.

6. ISHA has started one-year competency-based correspondence programmes in the fields of (a) Hospital Administration (b) Nursing Care Administration (c) Counselling Techniques (d) Managerial Effectiveness, (e) Legal Aspects of Health Care, and (f) Public Health. We shall be happy to send more information.

7.  All programmes at Bangalore are conducted at our own premises, Baba's Gyan Sarovar which has over 30,000 sq.ft. area covering conference rooms, guest rooms, library, and advanced computer facilities.

8.  We shall be happy to serve your organization. Kindly let us know the programmes of your interest, so that we can send the programme brochures.

      With warm regards, and best wishes for your success.

Cordially yours,

Dr Ashok Sahni
Professor and
Hony Executive Director

1. Workshop on, Counselling Techniques for Teachers for
Adjustment and Effectiveness
April 14-16, 2005, at Patiala, Punjab
Approaches and Strategies for becoming an effective teacher and counsellor for excellence in education.

2. Workshop on,Counselling Techniques for Teachers for
Adjustment and Effectiveness
April 18-20, 2005, at Ludhiana, Punjab

Same as No. 1

3. National Seminar on Disasters Preparedness and Emergencies Management
May 18-21, 2005 at Bangalore

        Emergencies and Disasters; Risk Analysis, System's Approach to Preparedness; SWOT Analysis, Personal, family, organization and community level disasters - air, road and rail accidents, cyclones, floods, communal riots, political disturbances, war, epidemics, earthquakes; major industrial accidents, bomb blasts; biological warfare. Effects of disasters; Studies on disaster management/emergency care management. Disaster Programmes in hospitals. Psychological and economic effects of disasters. Action Plans for Prevention, Mitigation, and Rehabilitation.

4. National Seminar on, Hospital Clinical Waste, Hazards Management, and Infection Control
May 24-27, 2005 at bangalore

       National and International concern for Hospital Waste; Sources; Systems of Management, Legal Aspects, Economics of Waste Management, Incineration Systems, Environmental Management Systems; infection control systems.

5. International Exhibition on, Health-Pharma in Collaboration with PPRASIDDHI
May 28 to June 1, 2005 at Bangalore

     Updates in Hospital Equipment, Pharma, Health Insurance, Alternative Medicine, Consumer Health

6. National Workshop on, Executive Health and Stress Management
June 9-11, 2005, at Bangalore

     Stresses and distresses in life and their effects; Profile of individuals experiencing high and low stress; Stress-related disorders; Job related stress analysis, Coping Techniques; Retirement Planning; Managing Cardiac, diabetes, and psycho-somatic disorders.

7. National Seminar on Modern Techniques and Administration in Health Care,
June 14-17, 2005 at Bangalore

     Innovative Approaches to HRD; Cost reduction and cost containment, Insurance; Managed care; Quality assurance, and Standardization, Critical care Management; Telemedicine; Trauma and Emergency Medicine, Bio Medical Waste Management. Hospital Planning and Design: Medico-Legal Aspects of Health Care.

8. National Workshop on, Counselling Techniques for Health and Adjustment,
June 22-25, 2005 at Bangalore

     Counseling for Behavioral change; Qualities of a Counselor, Process of Counseling for Psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, alcoholic disorders, HIV-AIDS patients, marital and sexual problems; family adjustments; death and dying; psychosomatic disorders, vocational, career planning, and mid-career counseling, job adjustment.

9. Thirty-sixth National Ten Days Course on,
Management Techniques, and Clinical Updates for Nursing Personnel,
July 4-13, 2005 at Bangalore

      Role and Requirements of Nursing Personnel; Problems of Nursing Management: Role Clarity and Job Descriptions; Nursing Administration in Hospitals: Public, Industrial, Corporate, Voluntary; Planning and Organization of Nursing Services; Administrative Functions in Hospitals; Job Descriptions of Nursing Personnel at various levels; Patient Care Management: Quality Assurance in Nursing; Action Plans for Patient Satisfaction and Quality Assurance; Counselling patients; Management of Wards, Laundry, CSSD, Outpatients, Emergency; Infection Control and Universal Precautions; Infection Control in Key Areas; Operating Room Nursing Practice Hospital Clinical Waste Management; HRD Management: Leadership and supervision for nursing care; motivation of nursing personnel; interpersonal relations; team work; delegation;

10. National Seminar on, Innovations in Planning and Management of Health and
Medical Educational Institutions
July 21-23, 2005, at Bangalore

      Innovations in Health Sciences, Education, Training and Research Planning and Designing innovative educational institutions, curriculums, admission, teaching, examination systems in medicine, nursing and allied health sciences

11. National Seminar on, Disasters Preparedness and Emergencies Management
July 27-30, 2005, at Bangalore

Same as No. 3

12. National Workshop on, Patient Satisfaction, Quality Assurance,
Hospital Productivity, Cost Reduction, and Legal Aspects of Health Care
August 8-11, 2005, at Bangalore

     Hospital culture and Patient Satisfaction; Patient Satisfaction; Handling VIP Patients; Quality Assurance in Key Areas; Cost Reduction and Cost Containment Techniques; Legal Aspects of Health Care; Consent, Confidentiality, Negligence; Frauds in health care; Developing a culture for health and healing.

13. Workshop on, Strengthening Health Services in Jammu & Kashmir, Srinagar
August 23-27, 2005, at Srinagar

     Health status of the Kashmiri people; morbidity and mortality; strengthening infra-structure, health manpower production; National Health Programmes Implementation; Financing of Health Services; TB, Cancer, HIV-AIDS Management, Maternal and Child Health; Emergency Medical Services.

14. National Seminar on Disasters Preparedness and Emergencies Management
September 5-8, 2005, at Bangalore

Same as No. 3

15. National Seminar on Hospital Clinical Waste, Hazards Management and Infection Control
September 19-22, 2005, at Bangalore

Same as No. 4

16. National Conference on, Pharmaceuticals for Health Care
September 28-30, 2005, at Bangalore

     Drug Industry in India; Drugs for Primary Health Care; Role of Multinational; Standardization of Drugs; Frauds in Pharmaceuticals in India; Import of Infected blood supply; Training Programmes in Pharmacology in India; Pricing Policy for Drugs in India

17. Sixth National Meeting on, Legal Aspects of Medical and Health Care
October 6-8, 2005 at Bangalore

     Justice, Ethics, and Medicine; Organ Transplantation Act; Negligence and Malpractice; Consumer Protection Act; Law and Justice; Public Health Law; Mental Health law; Legal Aspects of HIV-AIDS.

18. National Workshop on, Updates and Action Plans for HIV-AIDS Control in India
October 17-20, 2005, at Bangalore

     Present Status of HIV-AIDS in India, State level Policies and Action Programmes, Hospital Policies and Programmes, Involvement of Voluntary Organizations and Role Effectiveness; Risk Groups and Counseling Techniques; Legal Aspects of HIV. Testing, Diagnosis, and Treatment of HIV-AIDS. Role, needs, and demands of HIV+ persons.

19. National Seminar on, Leadership and Managerial Effectiveness for Administrators of Health Programmes
October 27-29, 2005 at Bangalore

     Leadership in health facilities and programmes; Techniques of managing people and work, job design techniques for motivation, productivity and profitability.

20. National Workshop on, Managing Stress Related Disorders Hypertension, Diabetes, Cardiac Heart Diseases, and Musculoskeletal disorders
November 7-9, 2005, at Bangalore

     Effective approaches for prevention and treatment of hypertension, diabetes and cardiac disorders, life style changes for prevention.

21. National Workshop on, Updates in Industrial Occupational and Environmental Health
November 17-19, 2005, at Bangalore

     Health of Employees and productivity; updates in industrial and occupational health; innovative occupational health programmes. Annual Medical check up.

22. National Seminar on, Computer Applications for Health Institutions and Programmes
November 23-26, 2005, at Bagalore

     Computer Applications in Patient Care; medical diagnosis, hospital administration, national health programmes towards efficiency and effectiveness.

23. National Seminar on, Becoming a Successful
Health Practitioner/Health Entrepreneur
December 5-7, 2005, at Bangalore

     Characteristics of effective and successful health professional; planning and developing private practice; setting up hospitals and health institutions towards productivity and profitability.

24. National Seminar on, Planning and Implementation of Medical Audit Systems in Hospitals December 15-17, 2005, at Bangalore

      Efficiency of medical services towards efficiency standardization, quality care, prevention of legal issues, infection control, reduced morbidity and mortality.

25. Thirty-seventh National Ten Days Course on, Management Techniques, and Clinical Updates for Nursing Personnel
January 9-18, 2006, at Bangalore

Same as No. 9

26. National Seminar on, Death and Dying: Handling and Managing Grief
January 23-25, 2006, at Bangalore

     Understanding death; grief handling, preparing patients and relatives for death; living death; life after death. Physical facilities for grief handling.

27. National Seminar on, Disasters Preparedness and Emergencies Management
February 1-4, 2006, at Bangalore

Same as No. 3

28. National Seminar on, Planning and Implementation of Medical Audit Systems in Hospital
February 9-11, 2006 at Bangalore

Same as No. 24

29. National Seminar on, Hospital Clinical Waste, Hazards Management and Infection Control
February 20-22, 2006, at Bangalore

Same as No. 4

30. National Workshop on, Updates in Hospital Administration
March 6-10, 2006, at Bangalore

     Planning new hospitals; managing public, private and mission institutions, HRD Management, Cost reduction, materials management, quality assurance, legal aspects, health insurance; medical audits, evaluation of hospitals for productivity and profitability.

A Brief Perspective

     The Indian Society of Health Administrators, (ISHA), established in 1979, under the Karnataka Societies Act, 1960, is a premier professional association with over 5,000 professionals, scientists, and administrators as individual members. Over 300 national institutions, public sector industrial organizations, professional bodies, health and medical departments of State Government are institutional members.

     Its primary role has been in health manpower training, health systems development and policy formulation. It conducts nearly 50 training programmes each year in which over 200,000 professionals and administrators have attended. It works closely with the Planning Commission, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, World Health Organization, UNICEF, FAO, UNESCO, World Bank, State Governments, and South East Asian Countries.

    ISHA has carried out policy level studies, evaluation of national health programmes, and assisted the State Governments in the implementation of national programmes as well as strengthening infrastructure resources. It has brought out 65 publications for health professionals, managers, policy makers, and organizational leaders. Many of these books are translated in foreign languages.

     ISHA has contributed a great deal to industrial development in India. It has been working with the Central and State Public Sector Industrial Organizations and Private Sector Organizations in training and development of manpower; conducting studies on organizational health, mid-career planning of managers; personal effectiveness of chief executives; retirement planning programmes; Occupational health and mental health in industry; alcoholism in industry; innovation and productivity programmes; stress related disorders; hypertension and cardio-vascular diseases in industry; post-retirement adjustment programmes; rehabilitation programmes in industry, corporate planning and organizational structure for productivity organizational renewal and rejuvenation programmes; and economic feasibility studies for diversification and acquisition.

     Towards competency building ISHA conducts large number of training programmes for medical and nursing personnel for effectiveness of health care, patient satisfaction, quality assurance, and professionalization of health services so that medico-legal cases are minimized.

     ISHA has started one-year correspondence (distance learning) programmes in the fields of (a) Hospital Administration (b) Nursing Care Administration (c) Counselling Techniques (d) Managerial Effectiveness, (e) Legal Aspects of Health Care, (f) Public Health, and (g) Disasters and Emergencies Management. We shall be happy to send more information.