Entry Level Qualification 

Graduate

Career Fields 

Medical Services

For Specially Abled 

Career Entrance Exam 

NEET UG

About Career 

As an Ayurveda doctor, you will use the holistic approach and techniques of Ayurveda medicine originating from India to help your patient maintain a healthy life, eliminate impurities, reduce stress and fight diseases. Ayurveda practice is based on observation techniques. Through these techniques, you will focus on the interconnection of the body, mind, the spirit of the patient and assess the wellbeing of him or her. As an ayurvedic doctor, you will also assess the dietary habits of patients, assist them in lifestyle choices and diagnose their mental state. Once you understand or diagnose the cause of the imbalance in the patient, you will treat the patient with the best of the remedies. You will diagnose each patient individually and the treatment may differ for each one of them through different diet, lifestyle advice, medication, yoga, massages, herbal supplements, counselling or specialised therapies.

Key roles and responsibilities

As an Ayurveda doctor, you will have different roles and responsibilities based on your speciality and super speciality. Following is the list of a few roles and responsibilities across the specialities:

1. As an Ayurveda Doctor, you will prescribe medicines, administer treatment, therapy, medication, and messaging as per Ayurveda Medical school

2. You will advise on physical exercises, diets and other related aspects for helping a patient recover from an illness or disorder.

3. You will address concerns or answer questions that patients have about their health and well-being.

4. You will collect, record, and maintain patient information, including medical history, reports, or examination results. 

5. You will ensure the safety of patients and guests throughout the day and night.

6. As an Ayurveda Doctor working with AYUSH, you will visit each sub-centre under your areas once a week.

7. You will organize and participate in a health day organized at the Anganwadi centre.

8. You will assist the senior medical officer.

9. You will receive patients at any odd hour for any clinical assistance.

10. You will be conducting a Prakriti analysis

11. You will prescribe ayurvedic Herbs for lifestyle-related conditions and obesity

12. You will make diet and nutritional plans as per Ayurveda.

13. You will follow the progress of the patient through regular follow-ups.

Career Entry Pathway 

Class 10 all subjects as per the scheme of studies – Class 11-12 Physics, Chemistry, and Biology along with any other subject as per the scheme of studies – UG in Ayurveda Medicine & Surgery.

After your Class 10 all subjects as per the scheme of studies, complete Class 11-12 Physics, Chemistry, and Biology along with any other subject as per the scheme of studies, and then study for an undergraduate degree in Ayurveda Medicine & Surgery.

After your Class 10 all subjects as per the scheme of studies, complete Class 11-12 Physics, Chemistry, and Biology along with any other subject as per the scheme of studies, and then study for an undergraduate degree in Ayurveda Medicine & Surgery followed by M.D./ M.S. in Ayurveda Medicine & Surgery.

After your Class 10 all subjects as per the scheme of studies, complete Class 11-12 Physics, Chemistry, and Biology along with any other subject as per the scheme of studies, and then study for an undergraduate degree in Ayurveda Medicine & Surgery followed by M.D./ M.S. in Ayurveda Medicine & Surgery. Now you can apply for a Ph.D. in Ayurveda Medicine & Surgery.

Required Qualification & Competencies 

To become an Ayurvedic Doctor, you will have to do a Bachelor's degree in Ayurvedic Medicine and surgery. This is a 4.5-year course followed by a one-year internship. After BAMS, you may opt to do an M.D. in Ayurveda, specializing in any one of the following fields or any other related fields:

1. Agadha Tantra (Toxicology)

2. Agama Tantra

3. Anaesthesiology (Ayurved)

4. Asthi Sandhi &MarmagatRoga (Orthopaedics)

5. Bhaishajya Kalpana (Pharmaceutics)

6. Bhuta Vidya (Psychiatry)

7. ChhayaavumVikiran Vigyan (Radiology)

8. DantaevamMukhaRoga (Dentistry & Oral Medicine)

9. DravyaGuna (Pharmacology)

10. Kaumarbhritya (Paediatrics)

11. Kayachikitsa (Internal Medicine)

12. Kriya Sharira (Physiology)

13. Kshara Karma (Caustic Therapy)

14. MaulikSiddhanta

15. Netra Roga (Ophthalmology)

16. Panchakarma

17. Prasuti&StriRoga (Obstetrics & Gynaecology)

18. PrasutiKaumarbhritya

19. Rachana Sharira (Human Anatomy)

20. Rasa Shastra

21. Rasayana and Vajikaran (Geriatrics & Sexology)

22. Roga&Vikrit Vigyan

23. Samhita Siddhanta

24. Sangyaharana (Anaesthesia)

25. ShalakyaChikitsa (Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat)

26. Shalya Chikitsa (Ayurvedic Surgery)

27. Swasthavritta (Social & Preventive Medicine)

28. Vikriti Vigyan (Pathology)

Competencies Required

Interests

1. Investigative: You should have an interest in Investigative Occupations. Investigative occupations involve working with ideas and quite a lot of thinking, often abstract or conceptual thinking. These involve learning about facts and figures; involve the use of data analysis, assessment of situations, decision-making, and problem-solving.

2. Realistic: You should have an interest in Realistic Occupations. Realistic occupations involve more practical and hands-on activities than paperwork or office work. Realistic occupations often involve physical activities for getting things done using various tools and equipment. 

3. Social: You should have an interest in Social Occupations. Social occupations involve helping or assisting others; these involve working with and communicating with people to provide various services; these may involve educating and advising others.

Abilities

1. Abstract Reasoning: The ability to understand ideas that are not expressed in words or numbers; the ability to understand concepts that are not clearly expressed verbally or otherwise.

2. Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.

3. Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules and common logic to specific problems to produce answers that are logical and make sense. For example, understanding the reasons behind an event or a situation using general rules and common logic.

4. Emotional Intelligence: The ability to understand your own and others' emotions and feelings; empathy for others; adjusting your behavior or self-control and self-regulation according to others' emotions and situations.

5. Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.

6. Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden among other distracting materials.

7. Hand-eye coordination: The ability to make quick and precise hand movements as per visual observations and understanding (that is, what you see and comprehend).

8. Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information from various sources, concepts, and theories to form general rules or conclusions. For example, analyzing various events or situations to come out with a set of rules or conclusions.

9. Inter-Personal: The ability to build and maintain good relationships with others at workplaces and elsewhere.

10. Mental Stamina: The ability to sustain prolonged mental effort.

11. Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

12. Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

13. Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

14. Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a long period without being distracted.

15. Verbal Reasoning: The ability to think and reason with words; the ability to reason out ideas expressed in words.

16. Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Knowledge

1. Biological Sciences: Knowledge of plants and animals, their anatomical structure, cell structure, tissues, physiological functions, evolution, and all other related aspects.

2. English Language: Knowledge about English grammar, words, spelling, sentence construction, using English to communicate with others, reading in English, etc.

3. Medicine: Knowledge of the science of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of human diseases, ailments, injuries, and disorders. This includes understanding the symptoms, knowledge of the diagnostic processes, knowledge of the treatment procedures and medicines, and preventive healthcare measures.

Skills

1. Active Learning: Focused and continuous learning from various sources of information, observation, and otherwise for application in getting work done.

2. Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, understanding the points being made by others, asking questions, etc.

3. Communication in English: Skills in communicating effectively in writing as well as verbally with others in the English language.

4. Critical Thinking: Skills in the analysis of complex situations, using logic and reasoning to understand the situations and take appropriate actions or make interpretations and inferences.

5. Judgment and Decision Making: Skills in considering the pros and cons of various decision alternatives; considering costs and benefits; and taking appropriate and suitable decisions.

6. Problem Solving: Skills in analysis and understanding of problems, evaluating various options to solve the problems, and using the best option to solve the problems.

7. Reading Comprehension: Skills in understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.

8. Scientific: Skills in using various scientific rules and methods to get things done or solve problems.

9. Service Orientation: Skills in or keen interest in helping and assisting people.

Personality

1. You are always or mostly organized in your day-to-day life and activities.

2. You are always or mostly disciplined in your actions and behavior.

3. You are always or mostly a soft-hearted person.

4. You are always or mostly helpful to others.

5. You are always calm or generally remain calm in most situations.

6. You always feel secure in your surroundings and most situations.

7. You can always act independently or could do so in most situations.

8. You are always or mostly caring, supportive, sympathetic, and kind to others.

Career - Job Opportunities & Profiles 

1. After your B.A.M.S., you can join a medical college like a private hospital, government hospital, AYUSH Centre, Ayurveda center, etc. as a junior resident doctor and continue your M.D. studies.

2. You can join hospitals, clinics, etc. as a Medical Duty Officer.

3. You can also join an Ayurvedic medical college at the rank of Assistant Professor.

4. Different state Public Service Commissions (Ayurveda Department) will hire you for different Posts like Medical Superintendent.

Work Environment

You would be required to spend most of your time in the clinic, hospitals, and healthcare. As an Ayurveda doctor, you will be treating patients in normal working hours of 8-9 hours only. Most of your work will require listening to patients’ problems, their sicknesses, and their issues. This is a job with an intense work environment that needs the patience to listen. Sometimes, you may be asked or requested to visit patients at their place and this may even happen sometimes during odd night hours. As a doctor, you should be ready to visit a patient at any time as they will always be in a medical emergency. Sometimes, even in hospitals, you would be requested to visit at odd hours or asked to work late when some endemic diseases are hitting the city or town.

Specialisation Tracks In This Career

1. Ayurveda Doctor (Prasuti Tantra & Streeroga)

Ayurveda Doctor (Prasuti Tantra & Streeroga) is a specialist in Ayurvedic Gynaecology, Obstetrics, and Paediatrics. They deal with Streeroga (women's problems), pregnancy, labor, and the management of diseases prevalent in women. They are responsible for antenatal and postnatal care, common gynecological problems, and menopausal syndrome.

2. Ayurveda Doctor of Shalakya Tantra (Netra Roga Vigyana)

Ayurveda doctors of Shalakya Tantra (Netra Roga Vigyana) deal with the problems related to eye care (ophthalmology). They provide medical care for certain eye diseases including diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, macular degeneration, and cataracts.

3. Ayurveda Doctor of Shalya Tantra (Samanya)

Ayurveda Doctor of Shalya Tantra (Samanya) is a specialist in in-depth modern surgery. They are especially able to perform surgeries for Ano-Rectal Diseases, Wound Management, Urinary Disorders, and Fracture Healing. They use ancient techniques and procedures for clinical and surgical treatment.

4. Ayurveda Doctor (Panchakarma)

Ayurveda Doctor (Panchakarma) is a physician. Panchakarma means five methods of body purification. They use purification therapies of Ayurveda and provide a basic understanding of the principles of Shodhana (Bio-Purification methods).

5. Ayurveda Doctor (Kayachikitsa)

Ayurveda Doctor (Kayachikitsa) is a general physician of Ayurveda. As a general physician, they are skilled in all kinds of general clinical treatment.

6. Ayurveda Doctor (Swasthavritta)

Ayurveda Doctor Swasthavritta is a Social and Preventative Medicine specialist. As Social and Preventive Specialist, they practice Social and Preventive Medicine methods at the community and personal level. They promote the health of individuals and the community by integrating different modern concepts with Ayurveda.

7. Ayurveda Doctor (Rasashastra & Bhaishajya Kalpana)

Ayurveda doctors Rasashastra & Bhaishajya Kalpana a non-clinical pharmacist specialists. As a specialist, they prepare medicines as per the specific needs of patients based on the Ayurveda school of medicine.

8. Ayurveda Doctor (Dravyaguna Vigyana)

Ayurveda Doctor (Dravyaguna Vigyan) is an Ayurvedic Pharmacologist. They won on the identification of controversial drugs, adulterants, and substitutes used in Ayurvedic practice.

Career Growth

1. My career growth in university and college started as an Assistant Professor and then as Associate Professor, Professor, and Professor Emeritus. Professors can also get administrative positions such as Director/Dean/Vice Chancellor, etc

2. If you Join as a Medical Officer, then you will go on to become Deputy Medical Superintendent then Additional Medical Superintendent, and then Medical Superintendent. You might also become the director of the Hospital.

3. If you join as Medical Superintendent, then you may become Assistant Director, Additional Director, and then Director of Ayurveda Medicine.

Salary Offered  

1. At the entry-level, one joins as a Medical Officer and earns about Rs. 30,000 – 50,000 a month. With experience, their salary increases. Medical Superintendent earns from Rs. 56,000 to 1,77,000 per month. In private hospitals, you will earn around Rs. 25,000 to 50,000 per month.

2. At the junior level with a work experience of 5-6 years, you would be earning anything between Rs. 50,000 to 2,00,000 per month.

3. At the middle level with an experience of 8-12 years, you would be earning anything between Rs. 1,40,000 to 2,25,000 per month.

4. At the senior level of over 12 years of work experience, you would be earning anything between Rs. 1,50,000 to 2,50,000 per month or even more.

Monthly Earnings In Indian Rupee

1. Entry level: 0 - 2 years of work experience

2. Junior Level: From 1 to 12 years of work experience

3. Mid-Level: From 5 to 20+ years of work experience

4. Senior Level: From 10 to 25+ years of work experience (there could be exceptions in some high-end technical, financial, engineering, creative, management, sports, and other careers; also shortly, people will reach these levels much faster in many careers and some careers, these levels will have no meaning as those careers will be completely tech skill driven such as even now, there is almost no level in a Cyber Security Expert’s job)

Famous Personalities 

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Work Activities 

1. Analysing and interpreting data and information: Analysis of data and information to find facts, trends, reasons behind situations, etc.; interpretation of data to aid in decision-making.

2. Assisting and caring for people: Assisting people in availing of services; taking care of people in different situations; offering help and services to others.

3. Communicating with co-workers and others: Communicating with people in writing, verbally or otherwise inside your workplace and various other people who have professional relationships with your place of work including vendors, government officials, etc., or with people at large.

4. Decision-making and problem-solving: Analysis of data and information; evaluation of alternative decisions and results of decisions; taking the right decisions and solving problems.

5. Getting Information and learning: Observing, hearing, reading, using computers, or otherwise obtaining information and learning from it.

6. Identifying objects, actions, and events: Identifying various characteristics of objects; observing and understanding actions and events; understanding changes in actions and events.

7. Inspecting situations, events, and people: Inspecting situations, events, and people to understand the reasons and causes for the situation or events to happen; inspecting people to understand reasons behind their behavior and actions.

8. Organising, planning, and prioritizing tasks: Planning and organizing tasks to achieve work goals; prioritizing tasks to achieve goals and making the best use of the time available.

9. Providing advice and consultation to others: Giving advice or consultation to others about various issues, conceptual matters, know-how, scientific matters, products, or services.

10. Updating and using relevant knowledge: Keeping updated with the latest knowledge relevant to your fields of work and using the relevant knowledge in getting things done.

11. Using computers for work: Using computers for day-to-day office work; using computer software for various applications in day-to-day professional work; entering data and processing information; for writing.

12. Working directly with people: Working directly with people to offer them products and services, providing assistance, etc.

13. Working in a team: Working in a team of people; developing a team; and maintaining professional relationships among team members.