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Month: February 2023
Cancer and Mental health: an essential but always overlooked aspect of cancer care
-Dr Amit Pandey Volume 12 Issues 10 October, 2022 Mental health is essential to overall health and well-being, especially for cancer patients. Per the latest GLOBOCAN data incidence of cancer in India is around 13lakhs new cases (1). The sufferings of cancer disease are from all the strata of society, ranging from rich to poor, […]
Early exposure to psychiatry & its competencies to medical undergraduates by CBME: how is it a game changer?
–DR.VAIBHAVI.P.S Volume 12 Issues 10 October, 2022 Ever since our school days, we were taught only about physical health and ways to maintain it. The concept of mental health seemed almost nil at a younger age, and so did awareness about mental health.In the pre-CBME era, though the 1st year MBBS dealt with the anatomy […]
Down the memory lane
-Dr M Kishor Volume 12 Issues 10 October, 2022 As a young psychiatry teacher in a medical college more than a decade ago, I looked at many ways to engage medical students. There were hardly any efforts before made in that institution. Months later, a medical student came to me and was eager to hand […]
Stigma and Empathy – inverse correlates in the wandering mentally-ill
From the desk of Editor: Guest Editorial by Dr Bharat Vatwani Volume 12 Issues 10 October, 2022 Mental Illness carries a stigma – either Social Stigma or Self Stigma. Stigma causes mentally-ill people to feel ashamed for something that is, in reality, out of their control. There is exclusion, poor social support, isolation, loneliness and low self-esteem. […]