sagarihandaAbout UP HRH Platform
The Uttar Pradesh State Medical Faculty (UPSMF) wants to set up an online platform to manage multiple functions regarding educational training, assessments, and job placement of allied healthcare professionals (AHPs) such as nurses, paramedical staff, lab technicians etc. The overall objective of the platform is to improve the quality of AHP medical education in the state, and eventually, improve the overall quality of healthcare delivery.
Following entities will need to be onboarded onto the platform to achieve the platform’s objective:
- AHP course students
- Medical institutes
- Experienced AHPs (nurses, paramedical staff etc.)
- Hospitals or healthcare centres
- UP SMF and other allied departments
- Field assessors (for institute verification and assessments)
Functionalities for the current roadmap of the platform have been identified, bucketed into 5 functional modules:
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Accreditation and Affiliation for regular verification and grading of institutes and enable transparent decision-making for prospective students during the admission process
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Centralised Admissions for prospective candidates looking to enrol in medical institutes for AHP courses (diploma / degree programs) to reduce the burden of institute-specific application process and remove discretion from the admissions process
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Competency based Assessments of medical students and experienced professionals to enable tracking of role and function wise core competencies required by professionals to perform at their workplace
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Verifiable Resume to enable ease of access and verification of a professional’s education and work history when applying for jobs in hospitals and health centres
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Aspirational Profession module encompasses two key functionalities - (1) a job discovery and tracking platform to enable institute graduates to search for and apply for jobs, and (2) a learning management system (LMS) to enable access to online skilling courses to bridge the competency gaps identified as part of the competency based assessments
A layered architecture is envisioned for building the platform with a Core Layer including the registries, credentials and masters as per defined standards and specifications. Above that is the Transaction Layer with transactional event data storage, intelligence engine, and communication engine. The Application Layer includes the five functional modules (described above) and platform UI. An open API layer connects the core with the application layer.
The platform will be built leveraging open-source Sunbird building blocks, which form the base of Ministry of Education’s (MoE) DIKSHA platform and Department of Personnel and Training’s (DoPT) human resource management platform, iGOT. Having Sunbird form the base of the UP HRH platform, will allow it to be contributed back to Sunbird repository for use by any other government entity in the country.
