Integrating yoga in health professional education: The SBV experience
Journal Title: Journal of Education Technology in Health Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
Medicine has been regarded as a noble profession since time immemorial and its practitioners equated with the divine by ill and needy. (1) Divine qualities expected in a medical practitioner include wisdom, competence, humility, magnanimity, empathy, selfless service and care. A compassionate heart, a listening ear coupled with a warm caring hand is known to make all the difference between a successful or not so successful return to health for many. In recent times however this image of the medical profession has suffered badly through many scandals and news reports highlighting the lack of humanistic values in medical professionals. Modern medicine has moved from being an art (with a heart) to a science (with a brain) and now sadly to being a mere business with neither. It is bemoaned commonly that instead of treating the individual who has the disease we have moved on to treating the disease and now to even only treating the medical reports.(2) The Government of India though the Ministry of AYUSH is strongly propagating the integration of Yogain the health professional educationand Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth (SBV), a deemed-to-be university in South India has been in the forefront of this integration of ancienthealing wisdom with modern scientific medicine. (3) SBV was awarded the coveted “A”Grade by NAAC in 2015 and found place in the top 100 universities of India in the NIRF 2016 and 2017 ranking.
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Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani
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