| PSYCH-01 |
- Rehabilitation psychiatry/ psychology
- Occupational therapy
- Psychiatric social work
- Music therapy
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- Skill of planning a psychosocial rehabilitation programme.
- Skill of assessment of psychosocial needs of a person with psychosocial disability.
- Skills to plan and carry out home visits for assessment/ therapy.
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- Once-a-week day programme for persons with psychosocial disability.
- Home visit to see a patient for assessment or therapy.
- Meeting of the rehabilitation team.
- Journal club on a related journal article.
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| PSYCH-02 |
- Behaviour therapy
- Cognitive behaviour therapy
- Dynamic therapy
- Grief counselling
- Supportive therapy
- Strategic therapy
- Sex therapy
- Basic communication skills
- Breaking bad news in clinical settings
- Therapies for medically unexplained symptoms
- Motivational interviewing
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- Improved communications skills.
- Basic theoretical knowledge of various psychotherapies.
- Skill of breaking bad news.
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- Once-a-week psychotherapy group.
- Role plays with simulated patients.
- Observation of selected instances of actual therapy.
- Journal club on a related journal article.
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| PSYCH-03 |
- Admission process
- Multidisciplinary ward rounds
- Management of acute behaviour disturbance
- Making discharge plans
- Management of medically compromised patients
- Cognitive assessment of patients with probable neuropsychiatric conditions
- Management of patients with neuropsychiatry conditions including cognitive rehabilitation
- Electroconvulsive therapy
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- Basic knowledge and skills in psychiatry needed to function as a good physician.
- Skill of managing an acutely disturbed patient in resource poor settings including prevention.
- Skill of carrying out basic cognitive assessment.
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- Observation of various procedures like ECT.
- Journal club on a related journal article.
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| PSYCH-04 |
- Mental health promotion including substance use and suicide prevention
- Outreach community based mental health clinics
- Home visits for assessment or treatment
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- Basic understanding of conducting community based health promotion activities including innovative approaches in substance use and suicide prevention.
- Basic understanding of implementing and sustaining community based psychiatric care in resource-poor settings.
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- Once-a-fortnight outreach clinics in the community.
- Home visit to see a patient for assessment or treatment.
- Health education activities: Formal (e.g. health talks to clinic patients) and informal (activities at grass root level with groups like women or youth).
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| PSYCH-05 |
- Staging of motivations to change
- Motivational interviewing
- CBT, cue exposure therapy and standard alcohol/ substance use therapies
- Innovative approaches like addressing subculture and using empowerment
- Medical management of substance use problems like alcohol detoxification and disulfiram therapy
- Substance use prevention in community using innovative approaches
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- Community based and hospital based
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- Skills in staging motivation.
- Basic understanding and initial skills of motivational interviewing.
- Basic skills needed for inpatient alcohol detoxification.
- Basic understanding of conducting community based substance use prevention activities.
- Basic understanding of involving family/ significant others in substance use therapy.
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- Observation of inpatient alcohol detoxification.
- Clerking of patients under supervision of a person competent in motivational interview.
- Visits to a community based specialised alcohol, drug and tobacco treatment centre.
- Home visits for assessment of clients and relevant subcultures.
- Follow up home visits for clients.
- Observation of community based prevention activities like small group discussions in real communities.
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| PSYCH-06 |
- Medically unexplained symptoms
- Psychology of physical diseases
- End of life, live transplantation and breaking bad news therapies
- Standard liaison psychiatry including neuropsychiatry
- Addiction psychiatry
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- Basic understanding in assessment and treatment of medically unexplained symptoms.
- Patient clerking in standard liaison psychiatry.
- Basic understanding in end of life, live transplantation and breaking bad news therapies.
- Basic understanding in psychology of physical diseases.
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- Observation of actual therapies.
- Visits to outpatient department.
- Clerking of patients.
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