-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 […]
Down the memory Lane
A Glimpse of Newspaper
Down The Memory Lane Volume 12 Issues 9 September, 2022 As I was travelling a long distance to medical college, I would strive hard to keep myself engaged throughout the journey because I am among those who can’t doze off during travel! Occasionally reading newspaper & every word in it , was a time killer strategy more […]
Going Down The Memory Lane
Down The Memory Lane Volume 12 Issues 8 August, 2022 Going down the memory laneThere has been happiness and painReflecting back on our lifeIt has been a lovely driveAmazing great times we hadSome moments did make us sadYet we did not give up so fastPersisting till the very lastLots of hard work we had to […]
My Initial Years in Medicine and Psychiatry
Down Memory Lane Volume 12 Issues 7 July, 2022 The year was 1971. Medical education was highly coveted in India. Kerala had only three Medical Colleges at that time- Trivandrum, Calicut and Kottayam besides the private TD Medical College, Alleppey (which was later taken over by the Govt in 1973). Kerala had only 400 medical […]
Short story of translation and validation study
Down The Memory Lane Volume 12 Issues 6 June, 2022 In 2014, at the department of child and adolescent psychiatry, Institute of child health, Chennai, it was decided to translate a holistic ADHD parent rating scale VADPRS [ Vanderbilt ADHD parent rating scale] into Tamil language as it was a gold standard rating scale used […]
The psychiatry training: Indian perspective
Down The Memory Lane Volume 12 Issues 4 April, 2022 The fruition of psychiatry training went paralleled the history of psychiatry and was influenced by the policies and political conditions of the time. Historically, psychiatry training was confined to the mental hospitals, and integration of psychiatry services was encouraged at various levels of the health […]
Down the Memory Lane
Volume 10 Issue 10 October, 2020 KING GEORGE AND QUEEN MARY As young senior house officers on the medical wards, we worked unlimited hours. Any number of chance events would prolong the day. I describe one such event. In the early 70s there was not much in terms of psychiatric care practiced on the general […]
Down the Memory Lane
Volume 10 Issue 9 September, 2019 As I began to write this article, it dawned on me how‘ going down memory lane’, is an important and universal diagnostic and therapeutic tool vital for the survival of every health care professional. As a medical student in the 1970’s, I was taught the universal skill of‘ history […]
Down The Memory Lane
Volume 10 Issue 8 August, 2019 In the early 1980s, my journey in psychiatry started in a multi disciplinary hospital’s psychiatry unit in the city of joy, Kolkata. My mentor, who was a professor of medicine, advised me about integrating medicine, neuro medicine and psychiatry. It was a fascinating experience but involved hard work. During […]
Down the Memory Lane : Dr Raman Baweja
Volume 12 Issues 2 February, 2022 Growing up, I always heard family and friends calling me “Chota (Punjabi Word for Junior) Doctor”, even before I knew the meaning of these words. They called me because my father was a registered medical practitioner in a small town in North India and they just assumed I would […]