Psychiatry at undergraduate level in India: What is needed?

Present day health-care philosophy strongly favors an increased attention to mental health related issues. However, the lack of an adequate number of trained specialists in India in this field makes it imperative that the burden is shared by general practitioners at large. But our current medical ed...

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Autores principales: Kavoor, Anjana Rao, Mitra, Sayantanava
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4481814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26167043
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.158804
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spelling pubmed-44818142015-07-12 Psychiatry at undergraduate level in India: What is needed? Kavoor, Anjana Rao Mitra, Sayantanava J Neurosci Rural Pract Point of View Present day health-care philosophy strongly favors an increased attention to mental health related issues. However, the lack of an adequate number of trained specialists in India in this field makes it imperative that the burden is shared by general practitioners at large. But our current medical education system may not be equipped enough to prepare them for the task. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4481814/ /pubmed/26167043 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.158804 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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