FACULTY FOR COURSES

All the courses run under the WAIM are conducted under following faculties:

1. Faculty of Integrated Medicine

2. Faculty of Integrated Traditional Medicine

3. Faculty of Integrated Alternative Medicine

4. Medico-Technical Courses

(2) FACULTY OF INTEGRATED TRADITIONAL MEDICINE      
2.01 MISSION OF STATEMENT
It is designed and dedicated to provide the integrated traditional medical education (ITME) to the officially/traditionally qualified practitioners of traditional medicine healing with an opportunity to enhance their academic growth (knowledge and skills) to certificate, diploma, degree and doctorate levels in order to provide the quality service to the patients and helps the community to lead a long productive life.

2.02 BACK GROUNS
Traditional medicine is in existence and practice in one or the other form since the origin of life on the earth. It has its various name and synonyms as –Indigenous, Unorthodox, Ethno, Fringe, Folk, Unofficial, Traditional and Healing in different part of the world. It involves a number of systems of treatment and healing based on many factors as - traditions, cultures, and customs and believes. None of the system is completely isolated; majority are integrated with drug and drugless modalities of treatment and healing.

2.03 AIMS OF THE COURSE

1. To integrate the existing traditional medicine with modern principles, diagnostics and therapeutics aspects.

 2. To enrich the traditional medicine with adequate scientific backgrounds. 

3. To make traditional medicine more assessable to the common men.

2.04 CLASSIFICATION OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE:
There are more than 1200 types of traditional medicine / therapy / healings practiced allover the world. For practical purposes and proper implementation, the WAIM has grouped them in two major groups.

A. Drug Therapy

B. Drugless Therapy

2.04 A. DRUG THERAPY:                             
Any cure, healing or relief of suffering achieved by using the drugs is called drug therapy. The institution of drug therapy has a definite duration of their course curriculum.Some of the most popular drug therapy amongst the traditional medicine are:
-Indian System of Medicine -Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy.
-Other System of Medicine: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), -Oriental Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Campo Medicine.

Other traditional medicine available in the world can be incorporated in the system for development of its course curriculum based on the WAIM modules.

2.04 B. DRUGLESS THERAPY:                             
Any  cure, healing or relief of suffering achieved by using the Physical means and materials, Natural resource, Energized edibles materials, Holistic means, modes and modalities is called drugless therapy. Recently some institutions of such therapy has come up, Otherwise. most of the institutions are run by traditionally trained / untrained persons (healers).  These therapies/ healings had no definite duration of their course curriculum. Some of the most popular drugless therapy / healing are:

• Physical Healing
• Natural Therapy /Natural Healing
• Yoga and Meditation
• Holistic Healing                           

2.06 SYSTEMS INVOLVED:
Most of the countries of the world have their own system of treatment and or healing known as traditional medicine (TM). Some of the countries have acquired the traditional medicine (TM) from other countries. In some countries, their traditional medicine is stronger even than the official system. It has been observed that the traditional medical systems are also not being practiced in isolation .They are doing one or the other way integration. In most of the countries, TM is practiced as Complementary /Alternative Medicine (CAM). WAIM has felt the need to systematize the integration. India has rich heritage of a group of traditional medicine and healing known as Indian system of medicine (ISM).The Government of India has put all such system in a department known as AYUSH. In integration of traditional medicine; we have taken in account the model of Indian system of medicine. The following drug and drugless systems are involved in integrated traditional medicine.

A. Drug Therapy: Ayurveda / Unani / Siddha / Homeopathy.
B. Drugless Therapy: Yoga and Naturopathy / AUM Therapy.

In preparation of the course curriculum, we have given emphasis to make the system more in accordance to the conventional medicine for scientific understanding and further its implementation especially in its principles, diagnostics and therapeutic aspects.

2.07 SUBJECTS FOR POSTGRADUATION
WAIM offers postgraduate courses in Integrated Traditional Medicine(ITM) and its specialties. The courses are of Certificate (C.I.TM-Specialty), Diploma (D.I.TM- Specialty), Degree (M.D.TM- Specialty) and Doctorate (Ph.D.) levels. The number of seats for Indian and foreign candidates in one calendar year is mentioned in the forthcoming  table.

Sl. No.	Subjects	Certificate	Nos. of Seats	Diploma	Nos. of Seats	Degree	Nos. of Seats
1	Basic Principles of Inte. Trad. Medicine	-	-	-	-	M.D.	20
2	Principles of Integrated Traditional Diagnostics  (Traditional   Pathology)	-	-	D.I.P. (TM)	40	M.D.	20
3	Therapeutics of Integrated Traditional Medicine	C.I.T. (TM).	60	D.I.T. (TM).	40	M.D.	20
4	Applied Traditional Medicine & Specialties	C.I.A. (TM).	60	D.I.A. (TM).	60	M.D.	60
	Total Nos. of  Seats	-	160	-	140	-	120

 NOTE: Based on the above model, integrated courses in other Traditional Medicine could be developed on demand of the particular Nation.

2.08 COURSE CURRICULUM
 Like the faculty of Integrated Medicine, the course curriculum has two aspects:
                        (I) Theoretical Aspects
                       (II) Practical Aspects.
(I)Theoetical Aspects: The theoretical aspects covers three major basic components of involved systems of treatment/healing in integration i.e. principles, diagnostic and therapeutics aspects. The grass course modules and sub-modules are same for certificate, diploma and degree courses. Based on the components, the course Modules have grouped in three major modules:

(A). Basic Principles of Integrated TM: It involves following sub - modules:

Basic Sciences of Integrated Medicine
History and Philosophy of Integrated Medicine        
Integrated Principles of Traditional Medicine

(B). Diagnostic Principles of Integrated TM: It involves following sub - modules:

Concept of Integrated Traditional Health
Principles of Integrated Traditional Pathology
Integrated Traditional Diagnostics

(C). Therapeutic Principles of Integrated TM: It involves following sub - modules:

Principles of Integrated Traditional Therapy
Integrated Holistic Medicine
Applied Integrated Traditional Medicine
Search and Research in Integrated Traditional Medicine

(II) Practical Aspects: After admission to the postgraduate courses (diploma, degree and doctorate), the candidates are assigned to write a project/thesis which one has to submit three and six months (depending on diploma and degree) prior to the final examination. Thus, the practical examination consists of three components:

A. Clinical examination

B. Project/Thesis

C. Viva-voce

Project/Thesis: The candidate undergoing postgraduate diploma/degree/doctorate are strictly instructed to prepare the project/thesis as guided by the head office, failure to adhere to the guidelines is liable to reject the project/thesis. The project for the postgraduate diploma should not exceed more than 50 pages while the thesis for postgraduate degree /doctorate should not exceed more than 100 pages except in rare conditions with permission of WAIM