PGIMER's Standing Academic Committee recommends including Yoga, Ayurveda in MBBS

The Standing Academic Committee of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) has recommended including yoga, Ayurveda and traditional medicine in the MBBS curriculum.

The new competency-based medical education for undergraduate course curriculum introduced by the National Medical Commission (NMC) from the 2021-22 batch of MBBS includes the introduction of foundation courses including yoga, meditation, family adoption programme, local language adaptation and skills. Now the Standing Academic Committee (SAC) of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) has advised to include Ayurveda, yoga and traditional medicine in the MBBS curriculum for lectures as a separate chapter. 

The committee has also recommended that new branches such as aviation medicine and organ transplant be included in the syllabus, as reported by Tribune India.

PGI Director, Prof Vivek Lal, said, “We have designed a state-of-the-art curriculum for the MBBS course but the final nod is awaited from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The Standing Academic Committee has cleared it. Yoga science will be an integral part of the curriculum and we will also have research postings. Our MBBS committee has worked round the clock to make the curriculum cutting edge.”

PGIMER seeks to add 100 MBBS seats

Last month, a proposal was tabled at a meeting for getting approval of the committee for establishing a medical college for MBBS and also a 500-bed hospital, an extension of Nehru Hospital having all clinical departments required for running the MBBS course.

 “Considering a shortage of medical doctors in the country, this expertise of faculty and residents can be used effectively to provide quality training to undergraduates also by starting the MBBS course at the PGI,” read the proposal.

The medical institute has proposed a state-of-the-art medical college with an intake of 100 students for the MBBS course to be started at the PGI extension in Sarangpur, Chandigarh. A new 500-bedded hospital is proposed to be attached to this medical college with a requisite number of beds for the respective clinical departments as per the NMC/DCI guidelines.

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