A Digital Newsletter of Psychiatry for Medical Doctors
Volume 12 Issues 8 August, 2022 Competency Based Medical Education (CBME) was implemented by National Medical Council (NMC) for undergraduate medical education program to create Indian Medical Graduate (IMG) from academic year 2019-2020 onward.CBME not only a competency driven but it also includes other newer components (BOX 1). Elective clinical posting one of the importance […]
Volume 12 Issues 7 July, 2022 What do Marcus Trescothick, Glenn Maxwell, Will Pucovski, Jonathan Trott, Sarah Taylor, Suzie Bates, Praveen Kumar, Virat Kohli and the great Sachin Tendulkar have in common? England’s opener Marcus Trescothick returned to his country in the middle of the India tour in February 2006, citing personal reasons, which were […]
Volume 12 Issues 6 June, 2022 A substantial proportion of our time as medical trainees is spent gathering and retaining colossal amounts of medical information. The abyss of continually updating knowledge that will likely continue to sneer at even the most senior or experienced us is simply a reminder of the sophistication that stands behind […]
Dr Kishor M Volume 12 Issue 5 May, 2022 The Competency-based medical education (CBME) Psychiatry, should students & teachers jointly decide teaching learning sessions? The Competency-based medical education (CBME) in India was implemented in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic affected the entire teaching learning adversely and new approaches were tried. Many sessions were given up in […]
Dr Naresh Nebhinani Volume 12 Issue 5 May, 2022 “Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work”- Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Medical education is generally perceived stressful due to vast syllabus, longer period […]
Dr Anil Kumar M N Volume 12 Issue 5 May, 2022 The CBME has emphasized Self-directed learning (SDL). SDL is a multi-faceted approach and hence poses difficulty when we try to define it. The concept was first explained for adult education by John Dewey, an American philosopher and educational reformer, in 1913, and it was […]
Dr. Z. Zayapragassarazan Volume 12 Issue 5 May, 2022 Introduction Physicians with well-developed soft skills are likely to earn higher patient satisfaction scores because of their ability to establish better relationships with patients and health care teams (1). Soft skills help people communicate more effectively and foster better health outcomes. It is now agreed that […]
Volume 10 Issue 10 October, 2020 Most of the people diagnosed with cancer chose to do Yoga after cancer treatment. They do not know that Yoga should/can be practised right from the time of diagnosis. This is precisely due to lack of awareness and Yoga is considered more as a form of fitness world wide. […]
Volume 12 Issues 4 April, 2022 India is a country where women are held in high regard and are referred to as “maata” (mother) or Devi (goddess) and at the same time discriminated against; female feticide is a classic example of this. As per United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Report (2013), India ranks at […]
Volume 10 Issue 9 September, 2019 A common phrase heard throughout a doctor straining journey is “Prevention is better than cure”. This became very apparent for psychiatrists while treating acute mental illness in adults. We realized that for many of our patients standard treatments were insufficient in reducing morbidity due to delayed on set of […]