The central government has introduced significant changes to the admission criteria and academic framework for the Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) course under the revised National Commission for Homoeopathy (NCH) Regulations, 2022.

Admission Relaxations

• Class 12 Marks Criterion Deletion: Now, a candidate does not have to achieve 50% (General), 45% (PwD), or 40% (SC/ST/OBC) marks in Class 12's Physics, Chemistry, and Biology examinations. Class 12 is good enough for clearing the senior secondary exam in those subjects.
• Eligibility broadened to open school and private candidates: Students from open schooling and private board examinations are eligible to pursue the BHMS program.
• Mandatory Data Sharing: Both state and central admission authorities are supposed to share the student data with NCH to ease admission.

Curriculum and Teaching Updates

Changes in Assessment

• Unified Retakes: Failing either theory or practical exams will result in failing the entire subject, requiring students to retake both components.
• Summative assessments: Assessments are now going to cover the full syllabus for the corresponding academic year.
• Removal of Relative Weightage: Elective courses will no longer consider parameters like innovation or depth of problem definition.

Internship and Other Updates

• Students are no longer required to obtain a provisional degree certificate for joining the Compulsory Rotatory Internship.
• Academic procedure has been revisited within the competency-based dynamic curriculum, which allows students to gain practical skills in addition to theoretical knowledge.

AYUSH Admission Process

BHMS is one of the six disciplines that come under the AYUSH system. The admissions are managed centrally by the Ayush Admissions Central Counselling Committee (AACCC), and the state-level admissions are managed by the respective authorities.

The new changes focus on making it more inclusive, assessment standardization, and a foundational curriculum for future homeopathy practitioners.