POSTGRADUATE TRAINING PROGRAMMES FOR MD PSYCHIATRY

Course Contents (Components of curriculum) : 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.
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.
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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
aa. Miscellaneous: Noncompliance, Malingering, Antisocial Behavior, Borderline Intellectual
Functioning, Age related Cognitive Decline, Bereavement (Including Death), Academic
Problems, Occupational Problems, Identity Problems, Religious Or Spiritual Problems,
Acculturation Problems, Phase Of Life Problems, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, etc.)
bb. Mood Disorders (Including Depressive Disorders, Bipolar Disorders, Cyclothymic Disorder, etc.
cc. Movement Disorders (Including Medication- Induced Movement Disorders, etc)
dd. Neuroanatomy
ee. Neuroimaging
ff. Neuropathology
gg. Neurophysiology
hh. Neuropsychology (Including Psychological Features of Cerebral Disorders, Clinical assessment
etc.)
ii. Organic Psychiatry (Including Amnestic Disorders, catatonic Disorder, Cerebrovascular
Disorders, Delirium, Dementia, Endocrine Epilepsy, Head Injury, Headache, HIV-Aids,
Infections, etc.)
jj. Personality Disorders
kk. Placebo Effect
ll. Pre-menstrual Dysphoric Disorder
mm. Post- Partum Psychiatric Disorders
nn. Psychodynamics
oo. Psychology (General)
pp. Psychometry/ Psychodiagnostics
qq. Psychopharmacology
rr. Psychosis (Including Scizophrenia, Scizophreniform Disorder, Scizoaffective Disorder,
Delusional Disorder, Brief Psychotic Disorder, Shared Psychotic Disorder, etc.)
ss. Psychosomatic Disorders
tt. Psychosurgery
uu. Psychotherapy
vv. Sexual And Gender Identity Disorders (Including sexual desire Disorders, Sexual Arousal
Disorders, Orgasmic Disorders, Sexual Pain Disorders, Vaginismus, Paraphilias, etc)
ww. Sleep Disorders (Including Insomnia, Narcolepsy, Breathing-Related Sleep Disorders, Circadian
Rhythm Sleep Disorders, Parasomnias, Nightmare Disorder, Sleep Terror Disorder, Sleep
Walking Disorder, etc.)
xx. Somatoform Disorders (Including Somatization Disorder, Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder,
Conversion Disorder, Pain Disorder, Hypochondriasis, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, etc.)
yy. Statistics/ Research Methodology
zz. Stress
aaa. Stupor
bbb. Substance Related Disorders (Including Alcohol-related Disorders, Amphetamine-Related
Disorders, Caffeine-Related Disorders, Cannbis0Related Disorders, Cocaine-Related Disorders,
Hallucinogen-Related Disorders, Inhalant-Related Disorders, Nicotine- Related Disorders,
Opioid- Related Disorders, Phencyclidine- Related Disorders, Sedative-, Hypnotic-, or
Anxiolytic- Related Disorders, etc.)
ccc. Suicide
ddd. Transcultural Psychiatry