Abstract

Abstract

The teaching methodology had gone through many transformations from ancient to modern era. Though in modern times, the knowledge is imparted to the students in the system of school, colleges and universities, CMEs, Symposiums, Seminars, Conferences, Workshops etc., the basic tenets of imparting knowledge to the medical students remains the same in ancient as well as modern era. In ancient era, the school and colleges were represented by Gurukulas (residential school) and vishwavidyalayas (universities). In Ayurveda, we find the famous Atreya school of medicine (Atreya Gurukula) and Divodas Dhanwantari school of surgery (Dhanwantari Gurukul), Kashyapa school of paediatrics (Kashyap Gurukula), Bhaskar school of medicine (Bhaskar Gurukula). Later during Buddhist era, we find the reference to famous university like Taxila where famous physician and neurosurgeon like ‘Jivaka’ had studied Ayurveda. Similarly, there are references to Vikramshila and Nalanda universities. During ancient times, the study timings were fixed and rest of the time was given to extracurricular and routine day to day activities. The admitted students were used to get exposed to ‘Vedarambha Sanskara’.The end of study was used to get marked by ‘Samvartan Sanskara’. It is observed and concluded that the basic doctrines of knowledge system and teaching methodology in ancient and modern time is the same except for the advancement in technology of teaching tools such as LCD/LED projectors, interactive board etc.