NAMC BAMS case studies
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The BAMS Licensing Examination is the written licensing examination through which the Nepal Ayurveda Medical Council (NAMC) satisfies itself that a Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery graduate is fit to be granted a licence to practise Ayurveda medicine in Nepal. NAMC describes itself as the autonomous body to regulate and control Ayurveda medicine in Nepal, established under the Ayurveda Medical Council Act, 2045, and as the regulatory and legislative body for Ayurveda courses, human resources, institutions, practitioners and traditional healers. The NAMC BAMS case studies are 5 cases and about 3,768 words.
1Ama-dominant Amavata with Reduced Renal Function: Sequencing Panchakarma Around Methotrexate
A 46-year-old woman with a three-year history of symmetrical small-joint polyarthritis attends your OPD. She has 90 minutes of morning stiffness, swelling of both wrists and several MCP and PIP joints, and night pain.
789 words, about 4 min2Diabetic Buttock Abscess with Crepitus: Recognising Surgical Necrosis in an Ayurvedic OPD
A 58-year-old man with type 2 diabetes for 12 years attends the Ayurvedic OPD on a Saturday evening with a painful swelling of the right buttock that began five days ago. It is now 8 x 6 cm, indurated, with dusky skin and a central area of blackening; the skin over it crackles on palpation.
741 words, about 4 min3Acute Angle-Closure in the Shalakya OPD: When Tarpana Becomes Dangerous
A 56-year-old woman is brought to the Shalakya OPD at 9 p.m. with severe pain in the right eye and right-sided headache of six hours' duration, nausea and two episodes of vomiting.
772 words, about 4 min4Severe Preeclampsia at 34 Weeks: Refusing Diuretics and Reserpine
A 29-year-old woman, G2P1, at 34 weeks and 2 days by dating scan, attends the antenatal clinic with puffiness of the face and hands for 10 days. Blood pressure is 158/108 mmHg on two readings 20 minutes apart; dipstick urine shows 3+ protein.
697 words, about 3 min5Severe Acute Malnutrition with Dehydration and Hypoglycaemia: Stabilise Before You Astringe
A 14-month-old boy is carried into the Balroga OPD at 11 a.m. with four days of watery diarrhoea (10-12 stools a day), vomiting after feeds, and refusal to feed since last night.
769 words, about 4 min