The external posting is among the most underutilised opportunities in Indian psychiatry residency training. Each year, hundreds of MD Psychiatry residents are sent to other institutions for four to twelve weeks of training in subspecialty areas their parent departments cannot offer, most commonly child and adolescent psychiatry, psychotherapy, and deaddiction medicine. Some return transformed. Many […]
The history of Psychiatry is rich in the Indian Subcontinent. Numerous records point out the fact that Psychiatry held an important position in the medical system practised in India. A rich trail of documents exists charting out the development of psychiatry and psychiatry education in India. But are those documents being preserved for posterity? With […]
