To promote integrative medicine and research, the government may be modifying undergraduate curricula to make both modern medicine system and traditional medicine work in tandem. The government is considering modifying undergraduate curricula to incorporate certain elements of modern medicine into traditional medicine and vice versa in a likely step to promote integrative medicine and research in a big way. Various departments are working on this idea, including the Medical Council of India (MCI) – the medical education regulator in the country.
A group of secretaries is reported to have suggested the idea of additions in the syllabus to the Prime Minister in a recent meeting.However, sources in the Union health ministry said no decision has been taken on this so far. “Change of syllabus is a long-drawn process. There is a thought at the moment,” said a senior health ministry official,…
