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This editorial discusses the transformation of Ayurvedic education through integration with existing traditional methods and NEP 2020.

March 14, 2026Open Access

Crafting the Future Vaidya: Redesigning Ayurvedic Education through the Lens of National Education Policy 2020 and Classical Pedagogy

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This editorial discusses the transformation of Ayurvedic education through integration with existing traditional methods and NEP 2020.
Analysis of Ayurvedic educational methods such as Tri Vidh-Adhyayan and Vada Marga.
Evaluation of the National Education Policy 2020 and its implications for curriculum design.
Discussion of competency-based medical education in the context of Ayurveda education.
Emphasizes the need for critical thinking and experiential learning in Ayurvedic education.
Highlights the integration of ancient pedagogical techniques with contemporary educational approaches.
Proposes a new educational model combining traditional Ayurveda practices with modern educational frameworks.

Abstract

A fundamental transformation in the Indian education sector is occurring, considering the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which is a supporter of the inclusion of rich knowledge traditions of India in the contemporary systems of learning.1 This generalization is more vital, more consonant to nature, than to any other branch of medical instruction. During the last decades, the Ayurvedic training has been divided between the beliefs of keeping it close to its holistic and Shastric matter and the needs of modern and evidence-based medicine. The result on most occasions has been a pedagogical dichotomy. However, the fact that the Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery program has been subject to simultaneous review under the competency-based medical education model by the National Commission of Indian System of Medicine (NCISM) is a great opportunity to be truly intertwined.2 An even more detailed analysis will show that even the educational tradition of Ayurveda is not archaic but highly developed. Tri Vidh-Adhyayan (three-fold study), Vada Marga (scholarly debate), and Tantrayukti (systematic interpretation) are its pedagogical systems, which are experience-based, critical, and student-oriented Figure 1.3–7 This editorial contends that the actual Ayurvedic education resurgence should be in reviving and putting back into context its own pedagogical intelligence with the facilitating frameworks of NEP 2020 and NCISM.Figure 1: Bridging ancient wisdom this is practical classroom practice that precedes the work of modern instructional design. A HUMANIZED, INTEGRATIVE LEARNING MODEL: THESHASTRA-NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY CLASSROOM These streams (Ayurveda he must be a decoder of the old knowledge, the synthesizer of the knowledge systems, and a lifetime shishya. This vision can be attained only when we believe in the pedagogic genius that is Ayurveda itself. NEP 2020 gives the mandate of the policy.1 NCISM provides the scaffold.2 With a reintegration of Tri Vidh Adhyayan and Vada Marga into competency-based education,8 we restore the very timeless science of Ayurveda education, raising clinically superb yet immensely human healers.

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