From the desk of Editor: Guest Editorial by Dr Vinay Lakra Volume 12 Issues 9 September, 2022 During my medical training in mid 90s there was limited exposure to psychiatry as a speciality. Initially I wanted to be a surgeon and psychiatry was nowhere in my mind as a career. Many things happened, some by […]
Can you cross the crosswords!!
Volume 12 Issues 8 August, 2022
Our perception of beauty
Volume 12 Issues 8 August, 2022 Snapchat® was developed by two Stanford University students who felt emoticons weren’t sufficient to transmit the emotion someone might wish could be sent with a text message. It then evolved into one of the most popular apps of this decade, particularly known for its wide variety of photo filters. […]
Elective in Psychiatry UG-CBME
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 […]
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 […]
“Oh, the thrill of rejecting papers after papers!” How medical journal editors work
Guest Editorial Volume 12 Issues 8 August, 2022 Many students and young faculty members regard medical journal editors villains: They compile boring, unreadable stuff and statistics into overpriced issues, heartlessly reject your works of love and hard labor with flimsy excuses, and then fill the journal pages with articles of their own or their cronies, […]
Mental Health in Cricket: Why is it important to focus on mental well-being in sports
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 […]
Can you cross the crosswords!!
Volume 12 Issues 7 July, 2022
Witchcraft wizardry and witch-hunting in India.
Volume 12 Issues 7 July, 2022 We all must have come through these terms at least once, have read it in some news or article and would have casually moved on from it because probably it’s no new occurrence. In history, diseases and devastations were considered acts of supernatural powers or angry gods or malignant […]
Wounded Healer
Volume 12 Issues 7 July, 2022 There is a saying in our anatomy book “a surgeon is the one who has a lion’s heart, a hawk’s eye and a lady’s hand.” Since age’s healers have been regarded as the epitome of gods on this earth, their toil relieved the sick, the suffering, and the ailed […]