UPH Management Offers ?Healthcare Management? Concentration

(left-right) Danet Arya Patria, Lecturer of Business School UPH; Peggy Adeline Mekel, S.E.,M.A., Head of Management Study Program; Caroline Riady and Niel Nielson, Ph.D., Acting Dean of Business School UPH 

The growing numbers of hospitals in Indonesia are also followed with the growing needs for staffs who are expert in hospital management. Business in the healthcare sector doesn?t only require experts such as doctors, nurses and so forth, but they also need supporting Human Resources is also required, especially for the management sector of the hospital.

Upon answering those needs, the Head of Management Study Program of Business School UPH, Peggy Mekel, said that her team decided to open a new concentration: Healthcare Management. This decision was made with the hopes that UPH graduate who have the bachelor degree in economy, are able to fill the needs for Hospital management staff. 

The internship program also becomes a place for students to learn about the work-life in the hospital, and it will also improve their understanding. This experience will also become a foundation for students when they have to write their research paper in their final semester, accordingly to their concentration.

To support the quality of its graduates, UPH has collaborated with Siloam Hospitals. This collaboration also becomes an advantage for UPH students, because students are able to do internships and they also have the opportunity to work at Siloam, an international standard Hospital, after they graduated.  

In order to enhance the awareness among UPH Management students towards the very promising career opportunities in the healthcare management sector, on July 18, 2017, UPH held a Leader Speaker Series with the topic ?Healthcare Management? which was brought by Caroline Riady, CEO and Deputy President Director of Siloam Hospitals Group. 

During her session, Caroline stated that business in the healthcare sector, such as the hospital for an example, doesn?t only require health expertise such as doctors, nurses and so forth. Instead, it also needs supporting Human Resources who is expert in management. Thus, according to her, this opens up a great opportunity for students of UPH Business School.

?Just like Siloam as a hospital that continues to improve its services by doing a constant expansion in all regions of Indonesia. Certainly, this expansion leads to the need for more quality human resources. Now, this is an opportunity for all of you, because Siloam needs more than just health expertise. Thus, your expertise as a graduate of Business School UPH will also be needed to manage Siloam. Right now, we really need an educational institution that can produce qualified graduates, who are able to support Siloam,? Caroline stated.

Leader Speaker Series, which was attended by more than 1.000 participants that include Business School students, lecturers, and parents, hopefully, can expand people?s insight regarding the great.