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With what educational qualifications can I become an Ayurvedic physician?

educational qualification required to become an ayurvedic physician

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RE: With what educational qualifications can I become an Ayurvedic physician?

Dr Aparna
Dr Aparna
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Thank you for choosing Mera career guide and writing to us. An ayurvedic physician requires to have followed the following educational criteria to become one,
  • Compulsorily studied Maths and Science upto 10th level.
  • Compulsorily studied Science subjects at 12th level and this includes Physics, chemistry and Biology (Or at least Chemistry and biology, physics can be an excuse)
  • Compulsorily studied maths at 12th level.
  • Preferably studied Sanskrit language at 12th level. (As your course contains more Sanskrit terms it is preferred to have some basic knowledge in Sanskrit).
Ayurvedic Physician
With these basic school qualifications, one can be eligible to apply for Ayurvedic medicine course at college level. To become an ayurvedic physician, one needs to take up the medicine route and this is known as BAMS Bachelor of Ayurvedic medicine and surgery. It is normally a five and a half year degree course similar to the MBBS general medicine study and this also includes a year internship post BAMS graduation. To be able to apply for BAMS at colleges, a student needs to attend the entrance exam conducted by the college that runs the BAMS course. If you have an aggregate of 60% and above in 12th class plus if you score more than 60% in the entrance test, you can be admitted for the BAMS.
Completing the degree you will get the prefix as 'Vr' before your name meaning Vaidyar.

Apart from private colleges, if you aim for admission at government colleges, you are required to pass the entrance test conducted by:
1. AIPMT All India pre medical/ pre dental entrance exam conducted by CBSE board of India.
2. Or AIIMS - All India Institute of medical sciences New Delhi.
3. Or PGIMER - Post graduate Institute of medical education and research.

Some of the colleges that offer you BAMS in India are:
1. Gujarat Ayurvedic University Jamnagar - International centre for ayurvedic studies. www.ayurveduniversity.com 
2. Sri Dhanvanthri ayurvedic college Chandigarh
3. Govt ayurvedic college Gwalior
4. Indian Institute of ayurvedic medicine and research Bangalore
5. Dayanand ayurvedic college Jalandhar
6. Bharati Vidyapeeth Pune
7. Ayurvedic medical college and hospital, SVVK Trust Raichur Karnataka
8. Madras medical college Tamil nadu
9. Vinayaka missions college Tamilnadu
10. Arupadai veedu medical college and hospital Pondicherry

Jobs for BAMS graduates:
Clinical trials, education, teaching and research, professors, private consultant, spa consultant, ayurvedic consultant, general practitioner, ayurvedic surgeon, health researcher, ayurvedic pharmacist, beauty consultant, medical representatives, sales representatives, product consultant, research and development at ayurvedic companies.

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