M.D. Psychiatry

No limit can be fixed and no fixed number of topics can be prescribed as course contents. He is expected to know his subject in depth, however, emphasis
should be on the diseases / health problems most prevalent in that area. Knowledge of recent advances and basic sciences as applicable to his/her speciality should get high priority. Competence in surgical skills commensurate with the speciality (actual hand on training) must be ensured.

Course Content
Theoretical Concepts:
a. Abuse (Physical/ Sexual) or Neglect of Child/ Adult
b. Adjustment Disorder
c. Anxiety Disorders (Including Panic Disorder, Acute Stress Disorder, Generalized Anxiety
Disorder, etc)
d. Case-Presentation (Including 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, Asperser’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 (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. Electro physiology (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
Gambling, Trichotillomania, etc.)
v. Learning Theories
w. Memory
x. Mental Health Issues In Women
y. Mental Retardation
z. Mind-the Evolving Concepts