|
Goals:
-
To train medical students in basic psychiatry with teaching both didactic as well as practical
-
To train DPM and MD Psychiatry students
Objectives:
To help the students become excellent clinicians with a core biopsychosocial approach to
diagnosis and treatment
Head of Department’s message:
Psychiatry is an emerging specialty. It is scientific, humane and can potentially change lives positively. There is no other specialty in which the biopsychosocial perspective so emphasized upon as much, for the purpose of a holistic assessment. We hope to train the undergraduates and interns in basic skills in psychiatry, and we believe that this basic training at the
undergraduate/intern level will impart a qualitative difference to the practice of medicine irrespective of the branch chosen by the students for their postgraduate training.
As a postgraduate pursuing training for DPM and MD (Psychiatry) our students will receive intensive training to prepare them for their roles clinicians, teachers and researchers in the field.
Facilities in the department:
Electroconvulsive therapy
Psychological Testing
EEG
Collection of literary books and movies with psychological and psychiatric themes
Helen Singer June Library of India Jung Center
e-books &Journals
Subject curriculum:
Theory As per MCI Guidelines
Practical: 2 week clinical rotation during internship as part of clinical posting in medicine, 2 week rotation Plus 2 weeks additional elective clinical posting
Examination Pattern:
At undergraduate level:
No separate theory paper or practical exam at this juncture, Psychiatry is allied subject with medicine. Interns will have an end posting written test at the end of their 2 week rotation.
At postgraduate level:
DPM: Three theory papers and practical examination
MD: Four theory papers and practical examination
Teaching staff information:
|