Diploma in Psychiatry Medicine

Course Content
Theoretical Concepts;
a. Abuse (Physical / Sexual) or Neglect of Child / Adult
b. Adjustment Disorders
c. Anxiety Disorders (Including Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, Phobias, Obsessive-
Compulsive Disorders, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Acute Stress Disorder, Generalized
Anxiety Disorders, etc.)
d. Case-Presentations (Including History Taking, Neurological Examination, Mental Status
Examination etc.)
e. Child Psychiatry (Including Learning Disorders, Motor Skills Disorder, Communication
Disorders, Pervasive Developmental Disorders (Autistic Disorder, Rett’s Disorder,
Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Asperger’s Disorder), Attention-
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Pica,
Tic Disorders, Elimination Disorders, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Selective Mutism,
Reactive Attachment Disorder of Infancy or Early Childhood, Stereotypic Movement
Disorder, etc.)
f. Classification In Psychiatry.
g. Community Psychiatry
h. Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
i. Culture Bound Syndromes
j. Dissociative Disorders (Including Dissociative Amnesia, Dissociative Fugue,
Dissociative Identity Disorder, Depersonalization Disorder etc)
k. Eating Disorders (Including Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, etc.)
l. Electro-Convulsive Therapy
m. Electrophysiology (Including Chronobiology, Electroencephalogram etc.)
n. Emergencies In Psychiatry
o. Emotional Intelligence
p. Epidemiology
q. Ethics In Psychiatry
r. Factitious Disorders
s. Forensic and Legal Psychiatry (Including Indian Lunacy Act, Mental Health Act, Persons
with Disability Act, Narcotic and Psychotropic Substance Act)
t. History of Psychiatry
u. Impulse-Control Disorders (Including Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Kleptomania,
Pyromania, pathological Gambling, Trichotillomania, etc.)
v. Learning – Theories
w. Memory
x. Mental Health Issues In Women
y. Mental Retardation’
z. Mind – the evolving concepts