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NCH amends BHMS regulations to add goals, restructure curriculum and assessment process
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Gireesh Babu, New Delhi
January 10 , 2025
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The National Commission for Homoeopathy (NCH), the statutory body under the Ministry of Ayush to regulate the Homoeopathy education in the country, has amended the regulations related to Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) to add national goals and institutional goals for the graduate degree course and restructuring the curriculum, assessment process, among others.
According to the amendment notified by the NCH in the beginning of the month, it stipulates that the national goals include that the medical student, at the end of the undergraduate course, should recognise the strength of homoeopathy, its applicability and limitations in healthcare of society and individual, learn the integration of medical services for effective delivery of healthcare, recognise the purpose of the National Health Policy and the national goal of "Health for all", achieve competence in the practice of Homoeopathy with holistic approach, encompassing promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative aspects of common disease, among others.
The institutional goals stipulate that each homoeopathic medical institution should evolve institutional goals to define the kind of trained homoeopathic professionals they intend to produce. The undergraduate students coming out of a homoeopathic medical institute should be competent in clinical diagnosis and homoeopathic management of health problems of the individual and the community, commensurate with his/her position as a member of the health team at the primary, secondary or tertiary levels, using his/her clinical skills based on history, physical examination and relevant investigations.
These students should appreciate the rationale for the use of different therapeutic modalities and engage in cross- referral when required, be familiar with the basic factors which are essential for the implementation and integration of the National Health Programmes with homoeopathy including practical aspects of Family Welfare and Mother and Child Health (MCH), Sanitation and water supply, Prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases, Immunization and Health Education, and acquire basic management skills in the area of human resources, materials and resource management related to homoeopathy in health care delivery, general and hospital management, principal inventory skills and counselling.
The amendment adds successful completion of 10+2 courses in Biotechnology, in addition to the existing eligibility criteria of successful completion of 10+2 in Physics, Chemistry and Biology, for admission.
The Central or State counselling authority shall submit complete data of allotted students to the NCH in the format, within the timeline specified by the Commission from time to time for verification, added the amendment.
It removes the word "Final", attached in various clauses while mentioning the fourth year of the course, removing the notion that the course will be completed in the fourth year of the course. It also revised the teaching hours for various subjects during the second year, while keeping the total number of teaching hours at 1,404. Total marks for the third year has been revised from 1,800 to 1,900, and for the fourth year from 1,600 to 1,500 marks.
"The student shall be eligible to join the compulsory internship programme after passing all the subjects from First to Fourth Professional examination including six electives and after getting provisional registration Certificates from respective State Board or Council for Compulsory Rotatory Internship," says the amendment.
The amendment has come into force from the date of publication of the notification in the Official Gazette.
NCH's functions include laying down policies for maintaining a high quality and high standards in medical education of Homoeopathy and making regulations for the same. it also has the powers to lay down policies for regulating homoeopathic medical institutions, medical researches and homoeopathic medical professionals and make necessary regulations in this behalf; assess the requirements in healthcare, including human resources for health and healthcare infrastructure and develop a road map for meeting such requirements; and frame guidelines and lay down policies by making such regulations as may be necessary for the proper functioning of the Commission, the Autonomous Boards and the State Medical Councils of Homoeopathy, among others.
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