New six-month clinical certificates launched for Ayush graduates

Marengo Asia Hospitals and the BAPIO Training Academy, the training arm of the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, have launched two six-month certificate programmes for Ayush graduates and postgraduates, in association with the Ministry of Ayush. The courses were announced at the second Indo-UK Health Conclave 2026 in New Delhi and reported on Friday, October 9, 2026. One programme covers acute care and emergency support; the other covers lifestyle health and well-being counselling. Prataprao Jadhav, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Ayush, spoke at the inauguration of the conclave and welcomed the initiative.

India trains a large number of doctors in Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa and Homoeopathy every year. Many of them work in clinics run on a single system, and their exposure to hospital settings, emergency work and team-based care can be limited. The two new certificates target exactly that gap. One prepares Ayush practitioners to support acute and emergency care. The other builds skills in counselling patients on lifestyle and long-term health, an area where traditional systems already place heavy weight on diet, routine and prevention.

The minister's message at the conclave was that tradition alone is not enough. He linked the future of traditional medicine to research, quality standards and clinical evidence. That framing matters for the sector. Integrative care, where Ayush and modern medicine work side by side, depends on practitioners who can speak the language of hospital medicine, follow protocols and know when a patient needs to be referred. Supervised clinical training is one practical way to build that common ground.

The partnership also has an international angle. BAPIO is an association of doctors of Indian origin working in the United Kingdom, and its training academy runs programmes that link Indian and British healthcare. Marengo Asia Hospitals is a private hospital group in India. A course built by these two bodies, with the Ministry of Ayush involved, shows how private hospitals and diaspora medical networks are starting to shape training for traditional medicine graduates, and not only for MBBS doctors.

For readers interested in where tradition meets evidence, the test will be in the detail: how the clinical hours are supervised, what scope of practice the certificate allows, and whether hospitals actually hire Ayush graduates into these support roles. Those points were not set out in the launch reports.

Short-term: Ayush graduates and postgraduates gain a new, structured option for hospital-based clinical training. Interested candidates should watch for official details on fees, eligibility and the first intake from the organisers.

Long-term: If the courses lead to real jobs in multidisciplinary teams, they could become a model for bringing Ayush practitioners into hospital and preventive care in a supervised, evidence-led way.

Who is affected: Ayush students and recent graduates, private hospitals looking for clinical-support staff, patients seeking preventive and lifestyle care, and policymakers working on integrative medicine.

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