You must take up physics, chemistry and biology at the Plus-Two level and then do a Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) programme, the minimum essential qualification. It's a five-and-a-half year course that includes a year's compulsory internship. Then you can go in for post graduation (MD), a three-year course.

Skills

  • You must be a good listener, able to gauge psychological as well as physical problems to make diagnosis easy and find a quick cure for the patient
  • Good powers of observation
  • Should be a very good counsellor
  • Untiring zeal to restore the sick to health

Important Facts


  • Great satisfaction after seeing a smile on a patient's face
  • Good growth prospects in a government set-up
  • Feeling a sense of helplessness when dealing with an emergency case, say, someone severely injured in an accident
  • Cases as these, have to be referred to multi- specialty hospitals after administering first aid to patient
  • No specialisation possible in surgery