A Digital Newsletter of Psychiatry for Medical Doctors
Volume 13 Issues 12 December, 2023 My formative years in medical school and residency were filled with invaluable lessons from mentors who emphasized the significance of cultural competence in individual and family-focused care. Through their guidance, I was exposed to global mental health issues, which profoundly influenced my approach to psychiatry. This year, during a […]
Volume 13 Issues 11 November, 2023 The Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) started by NMC from year 2019 has made undergraduate students more interested in the field of psychiatry. CBME is an approach to medical education that focuses on defining specific competencies (knowledge, skills, attitudes) that medical students must demonstrate before they can progress through their […]
Volume 13 Issues 10 October, 2023 During my earlier days at NIMHANS, I was shocked by an incident that happened not very far away from the campus. One evening when a woman was walking along the busy Double Road, she was forcefully taken away and raped. She was a married working woman who was walking […]
Volume 13 Issues 9 September, 2023 Karnataka had undergraduate psychiatry quiz programs for a long time; this continues even today. One was prize examinations on Multiple Choice Questions across the state simultaneously in respective colleges, and answer scripts were mailed to organisers affiliated with one institution (who do the task in rotation). They evaluate and […]
Volume 13 Issues 8 August, 2023 More than fifteen years ago when I joined a medical college as young staff, there was hardly any undergraduate psychiatry class!! First, there were nothing called regular staff and secondly, undergraduate students would not attend the session as psychiatry was not mandatory!! Attendance in psychiatry was never counted, all […]
Volume 13 Issues 7 July, 2023 My journey as a Psychiatry teacher or facilitator dates to my Early days of Residency at AIIMS Delhi (2013-2016), where we, as trainees, had to teach topics from Fish’s Clinical Psychopathology and Sim’s psychopathology to co-residents, with senior residents as moderators. Occasionally, we were asked to take clinical classes […]
Volume 13 Issues 6 June, 2023 As a newly joined junior resident, we had a class by our Head of Department, Prof Rajat Ray. The class was about introduction to Psychiatry as a specialty and what to expect in the course of time. One of the things he taught us then was that you would […]
Volume 13 Issues 5 May, 2023 It was my own inner turmoil and terror of examinations, which started rather suddenly, when I was in the middle of writing my Matriculation examination, which made me turn to psychiatry for an explanation. Although I passed Matric and PUC exams with good marks and got admission to Mysore […]
Volume 13 Issues 4 April, 2023 Strangely, some of life’s most valuable lessons can be learned by spending some time at hospitals. It seems that witnessing the extreme form of anything can alter one’s perception of life itself, say a woman in labor, a forest fire, a psychopath. Hospitals are places designed for healing but allow […]
Volume 13 Issues 3 March, 2023 I am Dr. Kiran Kumar K., Professor of Psychiatry at Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, Bengaluru. I started my Psychiatry journey in 2006 at JSS Medical college, Mysuru. It’s been a wonderful expedition since then, navigating the nuances of human ‘psyche’. One aspect that has fascinated […]