IMA seeks removal of one-week posting provision for medical interns in Ayush medicine

In a letter to the NMC, the IMA warned that the one-week period exposure especially in another system of medicine will only pave the way for a “half-baked mixopath, which is disastrous for the country”.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has sought removal of the provision of one-week elective posting of medical interns in AYUSH medicine from the draft regulation for Compulsory Rotating Internship, calling it “superfluous” and an attempt to initiate “mixopathy”. The National Medical Commission (NMC) came out with a draft regulation on internship that stated that a week’s training must be part of the rotational schedule in any of the Indian systems of medicine or AYUSH as an elective. In a letter to the NMC, the IMA warned that the one-week period exposure especially in another system of medicine will only pave the way for a “half-baked mixopath, which is disastrous for the country”.