<p>RGUHS will offer three new courses starting next academic year - bachelor course in audiology, speech and language pathology, BSc in emergency medical technician course and bachelor course in occupational therapy.</p>.<p>Dr S Sachidanand, director, medical education, told reporters that these courses were being offered based on industry demands.</p>.<p>The university is also set to offer fellowship programmes including the ones in arthroscopy, trauma and sports surgery, onco anaesthesia, spine, regional anaesthesia, maxillofacial trauma, among others.</p>.<p>RGUHS is in talks with several universities abroad to start exchange programmes.</p>.<p>“We were approached by a few of them who proposed that signing a MoU will benefit students, both from their countries and ours,” said Sachidanand.</p>.<p>Giving students a better chance to get jobs, RGUHS is also set to have a placement cell.</p>.<p>“The Health sector requires more clinical psychologists. Keeping this in mind, the university has entered into an MoU with Nimhans, which will hand-hold the university in conducting MPhil courses in clinical psychology at its affiliated college namely Dimhans for a period of five years. After this, the university will conduct this programme by itself,” said Sachidanand.</p>.<p>The university has identified four districts - Kalaburagi, Davangere, Belagavi and Dakshina Kannada for the establishment of regional centres.</p>.<p>A few of the essential activities of the university will be decentralised and the regional centres will act on behalf of the university. College representatives/faculty/students of the respective regions can visit the regional centres for<br />university-related work.</p>
<p>RGUHS will offer three new courses starting next academic year - bachelor course in audiology, speech and language pathology, BSc in emergency medical technician course and bachelor course in occupational therapy.</p>.<p>Dr S Sachidanand, director, medical education, told reporters that these courses were being offered based on industry demands.</p>.<p>The university is also set to offer fellowship programmes including the ones in arthroscopy, trauma and sports surgery, onco anaesthesia, spine, regional anaesthesia, maxillofacial trauma, among others.</p>.<p>RGUHS is in talks with several universities abroad to start exchange programmes.</p>.<p>“We were approached by a few of them who proposed that signing a MoU will benefit students, both from their countries and ours,” said Sachidanand.</p>.<p>Giving students a better chance to get jobs, RGUHS is also set to have a placement cell.</p>.<p>“The Health sector requires more clinical psychologists. Keeping this in mind, the university has entered into an MoU with Nimhans, which will hand-hold the university in conducting MPhil courses in clinical psychology at its affiliated college namely Dimhans for a period of five years. After this, the university will conduct this programme by itself,” said Sachidanand.</p>.<p>The university has identified four districts - Kalaburagi, Davangere, Belagavi and Dakshina Kannada for the establishment of regional centres.</p>.<p>A few of the essential activities of the university will be decentralised and the regional centres will act on behalf of the university. College representatives/faculty/students of the respective regions can visit the regional centres for<br />university-related work.</p>
