u/No_Exercise2294

This is gonna be long, so bear with me.

So I studied BAMS and it's been like 2 years since I got my degree and, to be honest, I don't know what I studied in those 5.5 years.

I feel like I couldn't grab the whole knowledge of either aspect of the course, i.e. Ayurveda and modern medicine. Both are half-as***ed knowledge.

1. Modern medicine

   You get to study anatomy, physiology, pathology, surgery, medicine, pediatrics, gynecology & obstetrics — literally everything they teach in MBBS. But you will never find a single student who is studying those subjects in as much depth as MBBS students do, nor will you find professors who'll teach those subjects really well and with practical knowledge.

(There are exceptions, though — like me and some of my professors)

And even if you want to you won't get enough time to study them deeply because, of course, you have to study the useless Ayurvedic subjects too lol.

So my point is, we are only getting half knowledge of these modern subjects.

And you know what they say about half knowledge.

You are goddamn right. It's dangerous. (BB reference)

2. As far as Ayurvedic subjects are concerned

Most of the students getting admission to this course are the ones who had no other choice and couldn't get into mbbs

And yea, the Sanskrit and shlokas, etc., with the useless facts which don't even apply to the current era, the aatma, punarjanma in the very early days of the course....( oh god there are too many things ) after hearing and reading this, most students lose interest and study them only from an exam perspective.

Just enough so you could pass your exams.And this is vast and volatile syllabus because you'll never find a logic in any point, so you gotta keep revising and invest time which you rather would have invested in studying modern subjects but ah anyway

There, you got your half knowledge of Ayurveda as well.

Now you are 2X dangerous.

I know this is an Ayurvedic medical degree and Ayurveda has been part of India for 10 thousand years and how great is that and blah blah, but we don't live in ancient India right now.

We have evolved, and none of the things that existed in that era exist now. Well most of things yk like the medicinal plants , day to day life , the atmosphere.IYKYK.

I gotta tell you about the Samhitas. For the analogy, let's just say anatomy is a subject and there are different kinds of books you can follow, like BD Chaurasia, Gray's Anatomy, etc., and both books have different authors, right?

And they did their research and wrote the book.

Very similar to this, Rachana Sharir is Ayurvedic anatomy, and authors like Charaka, Sushruta, Vagbhata write their books (Samhitas), and what they wrote varies from every point.

And not just three — we have got a whole gang of 12 Samhitakars writing about the same thing in 12 different ways, and we have to learn what everyone has to say.

And all those differ so much from modern science.

To give an example, modern anatomy says there are 206 bones, Sushruta says there are 300 bones, Charaka says 360 and some other samhitakar says something else and there is no one who is correct

But we now know exactly how many bones there are in the human body.

Why do I have to study what this particular author said about the number of bones? And remember them and then give my Post graduation entrance exam.( AIAPGET ) dude I gotta rant about this exam too man.. let's keep it for another day

Are we studying history or the medical course?

If this was about history, I would've gladly studied and remembered that.

But we are here to know about diseases and how to treat patients, not read about the argument over how many bones there are in the body.

IMO, the whole curriculum and syllabus of this course is bullshit. Which has been going on since the introduction of this course in the medical field. It's stagnant since ancient times . People come people study people don't question people leave and carry on with same methods but no one comes forward and says I will do research , I will test the authenticity of this particular drug , or says we need better syllabus where we can get the best of both the aspects . I am so sick of this course and now my parents wants me to do post graduation like man gimme a break please i can not keep up with this shiz. Also rn it's 3.35 in the morning and I'm so high on sleep while writing this so feel free to point out mistakes I'll edit them later but I gotta let this out 😭 I could do a whole damn podcast about this tbh lmaooo