NCISM Electives:

(i) Electives are introduced in B.A.M.S./ B.U.M.S/ B.S.M.S/ B.S.R.M.S curriculum to provide an opportunity to the students of Ayurveda, Unani Siddha & Sowa-Rigpa to get introduced, exposed and oriented to various allied subjects that are required to understand and build an inter- disciplinary approach.

(ii) The electives shall be conducted as an online programme.

(iii) Each elective subject shall be of forty-five hours duration and divided in five modules and each module shall have nine hours i.e., five hours of teaching, two hours of guided learning, one hour each for expert interaction/reflection and assessment and in total, eachelective will have twenty-five hours of teaching, ten hours of guided learning,five hours of expert interaction/reflection and five hours of assessment (five assessments of one houreach).

Explanation: - For the purpose of this regulation, Teaching means video lectures, Powerpoint presentations, audio lectures, video clippings, audio clippings, technical images, study material etc.

(iv) The study hours for electives are over and above the prescribed teaching hours of B.A.M.S. under these regulations.