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COLLEGE-Rules & Regulations
Rules and regulations proposed for the BHMS degree course based on the recommendations of the central council of Homoeopathy, 1983, as amended on 2003 are detailed in short under the following heads
  •   Introduction.
  •   General considerations and teaching approach.
  •   Admission, selection & migration.
  •   Examination regulations.
Introduction
Organization of teaching of clinical subjects should be done concentrating on vertical integration, incorporating the teaching staff of pre-clinical and Para- clinical subjects also. Uniform timetable for clinical postings and lectures/ practical is presented.

General considerations and teaching approach
  • Graduate medical curriculum is oriented towards training students to undertake the responsibilities of a physician of first contact who is capable of looking after the preventive, curative, rehabilitative aspects of medicine.
  • With a wide range of carrier opportunities available today, a graduate training through based and flexible should aim to provide an educational experience required for health care in our country.
  • To undertake the responsibilities of service situations, which is changing condition and of various types, it is essential to provide adequate placement training to the needs of such services as to enable the graduate to become effective instruments of implementation of those requirements. To avail of opportunities and be able to conduct professional requirements, the graduate shall endeavour to have acquired basic training to different aspect of medical care.
  • The importance of the community aspects of health care and of rural health care service is to be recognized. This aspect of education and training of graduates should be adequately recognized in the prescribed curriculum. Its importance has been systematically upgraded over the past years and adequate exposure to such experiences should be available throughout all the 3 phases of education and training. This has to be further emphasized and intensified by providing exposure to field practice areas and training during the internship period. The aim of the period of rural training during internship is to enable the fresh graduate to function efficiently under such settings.
  • The educational experience should emphasize health and community orientation instead of-only disease and hospital orientation or being concentrated on curative aspects. As such all the basic concepts of modern scientific medical education are to be adequately dealt with.
  • There must be enough experiences provided for self-learning. The methods and techniques that would ensure this must became a part of teaching and learning process.
  • The importance of social factors in relation to the problems of health and diseases should receive proper emphasis throughout the course and to achieve this purpose the educational process should also be community based than only hospital based. The importance of population control and family welfare planning should be emphasized throughout the period of training with the importance of health and development duly emphasized.
  • Adequate emphasis is to be placed on cultivating logical and scientific habits of thought, clarity of expression, independence of judgment and ability to collect and analyze information and to correlate them.
  • The educational process should be placed in a historic background as an evolving process and not merely as an acquisition of a large number of disjointed facts without a proper perspective. The history of medicine with reference to the evolution of medical knowledge both in this country and the rest of the world should form a part of this process.
  • Lectures alone are generally not adequate as a method of training and are a poor menace of transferring / acquiring information and even less effective at skill development and in generating the appropriate attitudes. Every effort should be made to encourage the use of active methods related to demonstration and on firsthand experience students will be encouraged to learn in small groups through peer interactions, so as to gain maximal experience through contacts with patients and the communities in which the live. While the curriculum objectives often refer to ceases of knowledge or science, they are best taught in a setting of clinical relevance and hands on experience for students who assimilate and make this knowledge apart of their own working skills.
  • Graduate medical education in clinical subjects should be based primarily on outpatient teaching, emergency departments and within the community including health care institutions. The outpatient departments should be suitably planned to provide training to graduates in small groups
  • Proper records of the work should be maintained which will form the basis of the student's internal assessment and should be available to the inspectors at the time of inspection of the college by the CCH.
  • Maximal efforts have to be made to encourage students to participate in group discussions and seminars to enable them to develop personality, character expression and other faculties which are necessary for a medical graduate to function either in so as to practice or as a team leader when he begins his independent career. A discussion group shouldn't more than 20 students.
  • Faculty members should avail modern educational technology while teaching the students and to attain this objective, medical educational units/departments should be established in all homoeopathic medical colleges for faculty development and providing learning resource material to teachers.
  • In order to implement the revised curriculum in to state Governments and Institutional Bodies must ensure that adequate financial and technical inputs are provided.
OBJECTIVE OF HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL GRADUATE TRAINING PROGRAMME
Natural Goals: At the end of undergraduate programme, each homoeopathic medical student shall endeavour to be able to
  • Recognize “health for all” as a national goal and health right of all citizens and by undergoing training for medical profession, fulfil his/her social obligations towards realization of this goal.
  • Learn every aspect of national policies on health and devote him or her to its practical implementations.
  • Achieve competence in practice of holistic medicine encompassing promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative aspects of common diseases.
  • Develop scientific temper, acquire educational experience for proficiency in profession and promote healthy livings.
  • Become exemplary citizen by observation of medical ethics and fulfilling social and professional obligations, so as to respond to national aspirations.
Institutional Goals
  • In consonance with the national goals each medical institution should evolve institutional goals to define the kind of trained man power (or Professionals) they intend to produce. The under graduate students coming out of medical institute should be competent in diagnosis and management of common health problems of the individual and the community, commensurate with his/her position as a member of the health team at the primary, secondary or tertiary levels, using his/her clinical skills based on history, physical examination and relevant investigations.
  • Be competent to practice preventive, curative and rehabilitative medicine in respect to the commonly encountered health problems.
  • Appreciate rationale for different therapeutic modalities; be familiar with the administration of the “essential drugs” and their common side effects.
  • Be able to appreciate the socio psychological, cultural, economic and environmental factors affecting health and develop human attitude towards the patients in discharging one’s professional responsibilities.
  • Posses the attitude for continued self learning and to seek further expertise or to pursue research in any chosen area of medicine.
  • Be familiar with the basic factors which are essential for the implementation of the National Health programmes including practical aspects of the following.
  • Family welfare and Maternal and Child Health (MCH).
  • Sanitation and water supply.
  • Prevention and control of communicable and non communicable diseases.
  • Immunization.
  • Health Education.
  • Acquire basic management skills in the area of human resources, materials and resource management related to health care delivery.
  • Be able to identify community health problems and learn to work to resolve these by designing, instituting corrective steps and evaluating outcome of such measures.
  • Be able to work as a leading partner in health care teams and acquire proficiency in communication skills.
  • Be competent to work in a variety of health care: settings.
  • Have personal characteristics and attitudes required for professional life such as personal integrity, sense of responsibility and dependability and ability to relate to or show concern for other individuals. All efforts must be made to equip the medical graduate to acquire skills.

BHMS Course
The duration of BHMS course is 5 ½ years including one year compulsory internship. The details of the hours and marks of the examinations for each phase are given in the syllabus.
Attendance
80% attendance for theory and practical of each subject is necessary for appearing university examinations.
Uniform
Male students should wear pants and shirts while the Female shall wear churidar or Saree. Both of them should have white apron during the class hours and while attending laboratories and clinical duties.
INTERNSHIP
Each candidate shall be required to undergo compulsory rotating internship of one year, after passing the final BHMS examination to the satisfaction of the Principal the Homoeopathic College. Thereafter only, the candidate shall be eligible for the award of the Degree of bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and surgery (BHMS) by the University. Each candidate shall complete the internship training at the maximum within a period of 24 months after passing the final year examinations.
Hostels Hostel accommodation will be provided as and when the facilities are ready.
MEDICAL COUNCIL REGISTRATION
After successful completion of internship each candidate shall apply for permanent registration to “Travancore Cochin Medical Council “and after verifying the claim they will be awarded the permanent registration.
Only after getting permanent registration they become registered Homoeo Medical Practitioner and are eligible to practice Homoeopathic medicine. Permanent registration is also necessary for applying for various posts under state/ union Government as well as applying for MD (Hom) course.
POSTGRADUATE COURSES
The following post graduate courses in Homoeopathy are offered in the Government Homoeopathic Medical College, Kozhikode.
Title of the Course
  • MD (Hom) Materia Medica (Doctor of Medicine in Homoeopathy Materia Medica).
  • MD (Hom) Homoeopathic Philosophy (Doctor of Medicine in Homoeopathy Homoeopathic Philosophy).
  • MD (Hom) Repertory (Doctor of Medicine in Homoeopathy - Repertory).
Duration of Course
Each course shall be of three years duration including one year house job.
Eligibilities for Admission
  • Educational qualification: - The candidates should have passed the BHMS (Direct or Graded) degree or its equivalent declared thereto by the Central Council of Homoeopathy. Those who have completed the prescribed internship on or before the last date for submission of application alone are eligible for admission. Candidates who have passed the final year examination with more than three chances are not eligible for admission. Recognition of the college and course by the university as well as Central council of Homoeopathy must be essential for under graduate level.
  • Age: The candidates otherwise eligible for admission should not be more than 45 years as on 1st day of January of the succeeding year, subject to a relaxation to a maximum of five years in the case of SC/ST and to the teachers of Homoeopathic Medical College and Research Officers of Central council for Research in Homoeopathy.
  • Nationality: Only the Indian citizens are eligible for: admission to the Post Graduate courses.
    Availability of Seats
    There are 6 seats in each subject.
    Mode of Admission
    Admission to the PG courses shall be made on the basis of merit from the category mentioned above. The admission in the seats reserved for the teachers of the private Homoeopathic Medical Colleges in Keralawill be made on the basis of seniority among the concerned and there will not be Entrance Examination for the purpose.
    Entrance Examination
    The commissioner for Entrance Examination, Government of Kerala in due course, will notify the venue, date and schedule of Entrance Examination.
    Application Form
    Application form can be had from the Principal of the Government Homoeopathic Medical Colleges at Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode and from other institutions notified by the controller of Entrance Examination on payment of prescribed amount. Amount once paid shall not be refunded on any account. A candidate can apply for admission in more than one subject of a time in one and the same application. He or she needs only indicate the order of preferences of the subject chosen in it. Candidates who are included in the select list of higher choice will not be considered for lower choice.
    Admissions to the Course
    The chairman and convener of the selection committee will forward the select list to the college concerned for admission procedures. Failure to take up interview at the appointed time and date will result in forfeiture of their chance. At time of interview the candidate should bring their original certificates and testimonials detailed earlier for verification. Note: Candidates called for written test in Entrance Examination or Interview are not eligible for TA / DA or any other allowances.
    Payment of Fees
    • Annual Fees: The annual fees should be remitted for the first year at the time of admission and for the subsequent year at the time of commencement of the respective classes within a period of fortnight positively. Further delay to a fortnight will entail a fine of Rs. 10. If it is delayed further it will end in the loss of attendance.
    • Students of SC/ST and Backward classes eligible for educational concessions are exempted for payment of fees as per orders of the Government issued in this regard from time to time. SC/ST students need remit the caution deposit and van fees only.
    Note: - No exemption from payment of fees will be granted to the candidate who is likely to be eligible for any other type of fee concession. But in such cases fees paid by them will be reimbursed as and when the competent authority has sanctioned the serve. All the fees are subject to modification and changes from time to time as the Government and University decided.
    Attendance
    80% attendance for theory and practical of each subject is necessary for appearing university examinations.
    Uniform
    Male students should wear pants and shirts while the Female shall wear saree and blouse or churidar. Both of them should have white apron during the class hours and while attending laboratories and clinical duties.
    Hostels
    Hostel accommodation will be provided as and when the facilities are ready.