CHENNAI: The allopathy versus traditional medicine crossfire in Tamil Nadu has intensified, with the MGR Medical University pulling out the allopathy content from the traditional medicine syllabus and the Central Council for Indian Medicine(CCIM) threatening to withdraw recognition for such courses.
Caught in melee are 1,200-odd students of siddha, unani, ayurveda and homeopathy courses under the MGR university . The university had deleted allopathy portions from the undergraduate syllabus of traditional medicine courses this year as it wanted to curb traditional medicine practitioners from prescribing allopathic drugs.
CCIM, which prescribes the curriculum and syllabus for courses, is not too pleased. "If the university changes the syllabus , it would be a clear violation of the provisions of the Indian Medicine Central Council Act 1970," CCIM secretary P R Sharma said. CCIM has demanded that the university reintroduce the removed syllabus within 30 days failing which it will withdraw recognition and the state council will be asked not to register students passing out of the university .
University officials confirmed the revision in syllabus. University vice-chancellor Dr Mayil Vahanan Natarajan said the decision to prune the syllabus was taken on the basis of inputs from six senior allopathic doctors. "We have reduced syllabus for MBBS by 20% because we found that students face an overload of information . In Indian medicine stream, we cut down on the syllabus because we thought there were too many irrelevant things," he said. Dr Natarajan said the varsity is planning to change the nomenclature of the degrees it awarded to Indian medicine graduates.
Now, an undergraduate in Ayurveda will no more be Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) but only Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine (BAM). "Why should they be called surgeons when they don't do any surgery?," he said.
Tamil Nadu State Medical Council president Dr M Prakasam welcomed the university decision. "I am glad the purity of Indian medicine is restored . Allowing non-allopathic doctors to prescribe modern medicines and conduct surgery amounts to state-sponsored quackery," he said.
Are there any allopathic/modern medicine subjects included in homeopathy..I don't think so. But anatomy, surgery, geynaec etc.. are not allopathic but medical science. Allopathic pharmacology not at all included in BHMS syllabus..so which portion they had removed??
ReplyDeleteIts absolute nonsense.CCH is the highest authority to decide about the minimum standards of Homoeopathic education.The University SHOULD have consulted the concerned experts in Homeopathy and Indian systems of medicine, before arriving at this conclusion.
ReplyDeleteCHENNAI: More than 1,100 students of Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani courses of Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University are planning to boycott classes from Monday as they fear their courses will soon become invalid after portions pertaining to allopathic medicine were removed from their syllabus. The Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM), a regulatory body for the Indian medicine doctors has threatened to withdraw recognition to the state medical university, which removed allopathic content from their syllabus for traditional medicine. The council's one month deadline to withdraw its decision on syllabus revision ends September 17.
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Do all M.B.B.S doctors become surgeon ,all those who don't should have M.B.B degree.
ReplyDeleteIts a wrong thought
if the indian system doctors practice what they studied , there would not have been a problem...
ReplyDeleteThis step is taken only to make sure that they practise what they studied.
Students of Indian medicine will be allowed to study modern medicine and surgery, health minister V S Vijay has said. The minister, who is also the pro-chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University, said that the university's decision to scrap allopathic contents from ayurveda, siddha and unani courses would be withdrawn.
ReplyDeleteThe decision was made after the minister held a meeting with senior health department and university officials, practitioners of Indian systems of medicine and students at the secretariat on Monday.
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in tamil nadu any one can prescribe allopathic medicines, no need for a Homoeopathic doctor to prescribe allopathic medicines... i know may of Dpharm holders practicing allopathy and earning 5000 to above rs per day... but we cant see this type of fraud practice in Kerla, becuse these aspects are some more strict in kerala.. so prescribng allopthic medicines by any non allopathic persons is not beacause of studyng surgery, medicines etc.. it is purely by lack of knowledge by patients and people... By studyng surgery any one cant get pharmaceutical knowledge to practice allopathic drugs...
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