MEDICAL EDUCATION
 

9.1. In the field of medical education, the type of education imparted, particularly at the under-graduate level, is hospital- oriented and has little relevance to the actual overall health care needs of the country. As a result, while the modern medical system has, to a large extent, kept pace with the developments in the rest of the world, yet the graduates coming out of our medical colleges are unable to appreciate adequately the problems of the community and handle the problems and dilemmas at that level. Our medical education system, therefore, needs to be reorganised on a realistic assessment of the health, manpower requirements of the country. Towards this end, the system has to be reoriented to bring it in tune with the needs and aspirations of the community.

9.2. At the same time, the indigenous (traditional systems of medicine) like Ayurved, Unani, Siddha, Yoga, Nauropathy and' also Homoeopathy have, after years of comparative neglect, started coming into their own. It is essential from the point of view of optimal utilisation of national resources that all these systems, as well as the modem system, should realise their limits as well as potentials, should support each-other mutually, and draw inspiration from one another.