Since its inception in 1971, the Institute has trained 36 Drungtshos, 43 sMenpas, 12 Pharmacy Assistants and 11 Research Assistants. The Institute will continue to train Drungtshos and sMenpas as required by the Ministry of Health. The Institute will also train Pharmacy Technicians and Research Technicians in collaboration with the Pharmaceutical and Research Unit as and when required. The focus during the next five years is to improve the quality of training programs through appropriate faculty development and procurement of required teaching learning materials. The Institute will also plan and implement in-service training programs for the qualified Drungtshos and sMenpas to improve the quality of services. The NITM has become a federated college of the Royal University of Bhutan in and follows University programmes in relation to academic requirements.

Although, human resource development for the traditional medical services at present is based on the actual service delivery needs of the Ministry of Health, it is expected to change in the future. The rapid socio-economic and political development of the country and the population growth and demographic changes will spur the need for more traditional medical practitioners in the country. There is also a growth in popularity world wide for the alternative medicine and our kind of traditional medicine is one of the popular system. Therefore, there is great scope to increase the intake of students to meet the growing demands.
The current policy of establishing traditional unit up to the Dzongkhag level is being reviewed and there is a plan to introduce traditional medicine unit in all the Basic Health Units in the country. Similarly, the privatization and private practice policies of the Royal Government are likely to be changed in due course of time. All these changes will create more demand for quality traditional medical practitioners.