Transform traditional medicine education

The quality of and access to education in traditional medicine in the country needs urgent improvement. There are currently 450 poorly endowed colleges (undergraduate and post-graduate) admitting around 25,000 students in the country. These colleges are not training students to play leadership roles in the emerging era of medical pluralism. The major reason for this lacuna is that education in traditional medicine fails to provide the transformational catalysis necessary to link traditional medical system sources to evidence-based approaches. This has led to isolation of such education and lack of its pluralistic integration into mainstream evidence-based medicine education, which is essential if Indias traditional medical heritage is to find its rightful place in global medical pluralism.