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Health Care(IAIM):

IAIM is a specialized medical research & education wing of FRLHT. The Governing Council of FRLHT has approved an independent management structure for IAIM to guide and review its progress. The Joint Director of IAIM is a member of FRLHT’s Executive Board. The Administrative and Financial systems of IAIM, although manned by full-time personnel, are fully integrated with the prevailing systems in FRLHT. IAIM shares exactly the same vision as FRLHT and its various functional groups.

In 2008 IAIM has been recognised a Phd centre of the manipal & Sastra Univerisities.It has initiated and innovate doctoral program in cross cultural studies - ....

Over the past 15 years FRLHT has designed & implemented several strategic interventions to demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Indian Medical Heritage. The three thrust areas of FRLHT’s work are: exposition of the theory & practice of traditional systems of medicine; conservation of the natural resources used by Indian systems of medicine and revitalization of social processes for transmission of the knowledge on a size and scale that will have societal impact. (See www.frlht.org for profile of FRLHT’s current programs). In 2008 FRLHT has designed a new intervention viz Indian Institute for Ayurveda and Integrated Medicine (IAIM)

Mission of IAIM:

To design and implement high quality, innovative education, research and clinical service programs on Ayurveda and Integrative medicine on a size and scale that will have social impact.

IAIM fervently believes that the country’s traditional healthcare systems have enormous contemporary relevance and therefore must occupy their rightful space alongside other health systems that are available to the Indian and global community. For this to happen key interventions are needed in medical education clinical research & surgery. With the support of the research and knowledge orientation of FRLHT, IAIM will take the lead in expanding the scope of Ayurvedic education & surgery. IAIM will initiate MS and PhD programs in "Integrative Health Sciences". It will be guided by the holistic principles of the traditional health sciences, use traditional pedagogic concepts, cutting edge IT tools & an epistemologically informed inter-face with bio medical sciences.

 Five Year Goals: (2008-2013)

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