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 the newspaper & every word in it was a time killer strategy, more so because more than a decade ago, smartphones had […]
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 The Amazing Teaching Skill of the Student !!
The class began for final-year medical students; as previously notified to them, I called the student who was assigned a five-minute presentation on the topic. As the student initiated the session and concluded enthusiastically, I was stunned by the student’s ability to conceptualise the topic, the presenting skills & grasp the section of the presentation. […]
Notice Board as Social Media!! by Dr. M. Kishor
More than fifteen years ago when I joined a medical college as young staff, there was hardly any undergraduate psychiatry class!! First, there were nothing called regular staff and secondly, undergraduate students would not attend the session as psychiatry was not mandatory!! Attendance in psychiatry was never counted, all the more reason for students to […]
A Psychiatrist’s Reflection
Some patients stay in our minds long after the clinic door closes. Years pass, hundreds of files move across the desk, yet a few stories refuse to fade. This is the story of one such young man. It was during my initial years as an Assistant Professor at GMC Bhopal. In the busy OPD came […]
The Expression that Stayed with me – by Dr. Vijay Niranjan
That haunting expression, which was a mix of surprise and ecstasy, has stayed etched into my memory over the years. At times when I feel overburdened with clinical, academic, and administrative responsibilities, it is that expression that keeps me going. It was way back when I had joined my department as a newly minted psychiatrist. […]
Psychiatry Residency in India: Bridging Training Gaps in the NMC Era – By Dr. Ruchi Soni
It has been thirteen years since I walked in the corridors of the psychiatry ward as a junior resident. Back then, psychiatry training happened while walking back and forth from the psychiatry ward to the OPD. There were no specified competencies at that point in time. You learned psychiatry, as Albert Bandura once postulated in […]
The Art of Being Understood
The first time I sat across a patient as a newly crafted doctor, I realised that the stethoscope, to detect cardiac murmurs, wasn’t the hardest tool to use. Words were.It was a small public healthcare OPD room, the kind where the wall paint has long given up to the invasion of black fungi, and the […]
Swinging into Psychiatry: My Rewarding Journey in Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Volume 13 Issues 12 December, 2023 My formative years in medical school and residency were filled with invaluable lessons from mentors who emphasized the significance of cultural competence in individual and family-focused care. Through their guidance, I was exposed to global mental health issues, which profoundly influenced my approach to psychiatry. This year, during a […]
Down the memory lane: Dr Siddharth Sarkar
Volume 13 Issues 6 June, 2023 As a newly joined junior resident, we had a class by our Head of Department, Prof Rajat Ray. The class was about introduction to Psychiatry as a specialty and what to expect in the course of time. One of the things he taught us then was that you would […]
Down The Memory Lane by T. Sudhakar Bhat
Volume 13 Issues 5 May, 2023 It was my own inner turmoil and terror of examinations, which started rather suddenly, when I was in the middle of writing my Matriculation examination, which made me turn to psychiatry for an explanation. Although I passed Matric and PUC exams with good marks and got admission to Mysore […]