Introduction

Department of Allied Health Sciences

Allied health professions are clinical Health Care professionals distinct from the Medical, Dental and Nursing. As the name implies, they are allies in a Health Care Team, working together to deliver high quality patient care services. Increase in the need for expertly trained health care delivery personnel, these technologists have to possess a strong scientific foundation in which the technology revolves and be able to perform at a much higher level of skills.

The course provides hands on training to students along with a sound foundation in science. This will enable them to assist confidently in technology driven Medical procedures. With the enormous development in the health care industry, these graduates will be much in demand both within the country and outside as Medical Technologists.

Allied health professionals comprise approximately 60 percent of the total health care workforce and together provide the fundamental framework critical to the success of the Indian health care system. Allied Health Education can provide you with the learning experience that meets your continuing education needs. As the healthcare exhibits ongoing employment growth, interest in allied health professions continues to rise in various field of health care management such as Corporate Hospitals and Nursing homes, Physicians assistant, Radiological specialist, Perfusion technologist and many more.

JSS Medical college has introduced Choice Based Credit System pattern from the year 2016-17 as per UGC Guidelines and Ministry of Health and Family welfare for Allied Health Science section 2015-16. University Grants Commission has come up with the CBCS programme in which the students have a choice to choose from the prescribed courses which are referred as core, elective, allied, skill enhancement and they can learn at their own pace and the entire assessment is graded-based on a credit system. The basic idea is to look into the needs of the students so as to keep up-to-date with development of higher education in India and abroad.