Question : Rotational Internship Training for medical students

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFAREbe pleased to state:

(a) whether National Medical Commission has released draft guidelines with compulsory rotation internship 2021 whereby MBBS student will have to undergo internship training in AYUSH, if so, the details thereof and rationale behind these regulations;

(b) whether it has also been made mandatory for AYUSH students to go for such internship in Allopathy system of medicines; and

(c) if so, the details thereof and the extent to which these regulations are likely to make students capable of using different systems of medicines and help patients?

ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND
FAMILY WELFARE
(DR. BHARATI PRAVIN PAWAR)

(a) to (c): The National Medical Commission (NMC) has informed that they have released draft Regulations on Compulsory Rotating Internship for inviting public comments. These draft Regulations have a provision of one week internship in electives exclusive for Indian Systems of Medicine. This part is not mandatory, but elective. The students may choose any elective, provided the discipline is available in the same college / Institution where Internship is being done (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, Homeopathy, Sowa Rigpa). The rationale behind including this elective is to providing exposure of Ayush disciplines to MBBS students.
The Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) has informed that as per the Indian Medicine Central Council (Minimum Standards of Education in Indian Medicine), Amendment Regulation, 2016, one-year internship programme for BAMS students is divided into clinical training of six months in the Ayush hospital attached to the college and six months in Primary Health Centre or Community Health Centre or Rural Hospital or District Hospital or Civil Hospital or any Government Hospital of modern medicine. It also provides that where there is no provision or permission of the State Government for allowing the graduate of Ayush in the hospital or dispensary of Modern Medicine, the one-year Internship shall be completed in the hospital of AYUSH college.