1.5.1 Postgraduate Education
Postgraduate education is available in over 30 research institutes and offers specialization in 16 clinical and preclinical Ayurvedic specialty areas such as medicine, surgery, pediat, pharmacology, pathology, pharmacy, and Rasa Vigyan. Besides the mainstream institutes, the National Academy of Ayurveda, run by the government of India, was established to impart intensive training in different specialties for graduates and postgraduates of Ayurveda under the guidance of eminent scholars (similar to the traditional custom of Guru Shishya Parampara; interested readers can obtain more information from the Web site of the Department of ISM as well as a CD released by the department.
At the present time, Gujarat Ayurvedic University is the only university exclusively devoted to Ayurveda and allied sciences in India. Its constituent institutes include the (1) Institute for Postgraduate Training and Research in Ayurveda financed by the government of India, (2) Shri Gulabkunverba Mahavidyalaya funded by the Gujarat State, (3) Institute of Ayurvedic Pharmaceutical Sciences, (4) Institute of Ayurvedic Medicinal Plant Sciences, (5) International Center for Ayurvedic Studies, and (6) Mahrishi Pananjali Institute for Yoga and Naturopathy Education and Research. The last three institutes are self-financed. The Gujarat Ayurvedic University has signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with nine Ayurvedic institutions functioning in Japan, Australia, the Netherlands, Italy, Argentina, and Germany to coordinate and facilitate the globalization of Ayurveda through academic collaboration. Earlier, Medical (Ayu) Institute of Russia had signed the MOU with the government of India, in which the Gujarat Ayurvedic University is also one of the implementing authorities.
The Ayurveda Faculty of the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, which is under the Central Government administration, also has similar programs. It has excellent facilities for imparting postgraduate training in different disciplines of Ayurveda. It is collaborating in international research programs and attracting graduates for training and research in Ayurveda, conducting basic research and publishing in international journals. It has an advantage of sharing the research facilities and clinical research with the medical institute’s research program. National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur, Rajasthan also has an excellent research facility and similar training programs and collaborations. The other postgraduate research centers also have very good facilities and are involved in various important research collaborations.
Soure: Lakshmi chandra Mishra, scientific Basis for Ayurvedic Therapies; 2004 by CRC Press LLC
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