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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 2011, Article ID 197391, 6 pages doi:10.1093/ecam/nep113 Original Article The Ayurveda Education in India: How Well Are the Graduates Exposed to Basic Clinical Skills? Kishor Patwardhan,1 Sangeeta Gehlot,1 Girish Singh,2 and H. C. S. Rathore3 1 Department of Kriya Sharir, Faculty of Ayurveda, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India 2 Division of Biostatistics, Department of Community Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India 3 Faculty of Education, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India Correspondence should be addressed to Kishor Patwardhan, patwardhan.kishor@ Received 5 December 2008; Accepted 21 July 2009 Copyright © 2011 Kishor Patwardhan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. “Ayurveda” is an ancient system of healthcare that is native to India. At present, in India, there are more than 240 colleges that offer a graduate-level degree (Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery—BAMS) in Ayurveda. Even though the Central Council of Indian Medicine, the governing body that monitors the matters related to Ayurveda education, has imposed various educational norms and regulations, the standard of education has been a cause of concern in recent years. The mushrooming of substandard Ayurvedic colleges is the most important factor that is being held responsible for this kind of erosion in the standards. The present study is a mailed survey, which was carried out to evaluate the “Extent of exposure to basic clinical skil