2. Current
Status
Good students
prefer MBBS
After 2 to 4 failures
they join Ayurveda
programs
Loss of
approximately 200
human years per
batch/per college
200 colleges x 200 =
40,000 youthful
human years are
wasted every year!
Can we afford this
as a society?
3. Ayurveda
programs are a
‘dead end’: no
escape!
Application-based
content is
minimum
Basic scientists do
not teach them
physiology/
biochemistry/
genetics/
molecular biology
Not eligible for
MSc / PhD in
Biochemistry /
Physiology/
Pharmacology/
Biotechnology
No curriculum-
based standard
textbooks that
include recent
advances
4. Huge Gap
• Good institutions are often unable
to maintain patient records
because of patient overload
• Poor ones maintain fake patient
records as there are no patients!
• Corruption: Menace of ghost
teachers and ghost students
7. Show
Success
Stories
Recognize few Centers of Excellence and ask
them to invite successful practitioners to teach
Ayurveda students/ teachers
Let students and teachers interact with
successful researchers, entrepreneurs and
clinicians
8. Specialization
and
Skill-Based
Education
Introduce
DM/MCh/DNB in
• Ayurveda Neurology
• Ayurveda Cardiology
• Ayurveda
Endocrinology
• Ayurveda
Reproductive
Medicine
• AyurvedaTertiary
Care specialists etc.
Regulate Skill-based
Programs
• Ayurveda Nursing /
Panchakarma
Therapist / Ayurveda
Pharmacist
• AyurvedaVeterinary
Physician/ Ayurveda
Dietitian
• Ayurveda
Agriculture/ Farming
9. Promote quality and acceptability
Sensitize
Introduce
AYUSH Module
in MBBS
curriculum
Introduce good
Teachers’
Training
Programs
Merge
Merge some
Ayurveda
colleges into
existing
state/central
universities
Ensure
Quality
Introduce
periodic
licentiate
examinations for
renewal of
license
Ensure
Competence
Introduce
NET/GATE like
examination for
ensuring
teachers’
eligibility
Every year I undertake this small exercise in the first class of newly admitted graduate students in our institution. I ask them to tell me the number of years they spent in preparation for the pre-medical entrance test before joining Ayurveda. Usually they admit that each student would have spent anywhere from 2 to 4 years in preparation for NEET/Pre-Medical Entrance Test. In a batch of 60 it amounts to a total of about 200 years. This is the number of human years wasted in preparation which could have been otherwise productive. Now, let us extend this calculation to about 200 colleges in India. The total number of human years wasted amounts to about 40,000. Remember: this number is for one year. My question is: Can we afford this as a country and as a society? Our most intelligent youth waste these many years in preparation!