Symposium: Mind-Body Medicine (MBM) & Resilience Training Dr. A.V. Marwale, Dr. B. N. Gangadhar, Dr. Sanjay Phadke

Mind-Body Medicine (MBM) in essence follows evidence-based simple learnable framework that seeks to enhance self-regulation through practices derived from Yoga, Meditation and positive psychology. MBM finds applicability across the health cycle from prevention to rehabilitation for improving outcomes and Quality of Life, and has great potential to evolve as affordable scalable foundation of healthcare truly reflective of the spirit of health promotion i.e. enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health. MBM can also be viewed as a useful vehicle to popularize ‘mind’ interventions and thereby reduction of stigma associated with mind issues. MBM is helpful to build resilience and offset ill effects of adversities. Resilience, the ability to rebound following adverse experiences, is a new area of study in medical education. A case can be made out for incorporation of Mind-Body Health training into the medical education system, both at the post-graduate and undergraduate level. It involves development of suitable training programs not only for medical students / residents but also trainer’s training for medical faculty so as to scale up the training. The symposium, while reviewing developments globally and the groundwork done by Indian Psychiatric Society’s Task Force on Mind-Body Medicine since its inception in 2019, will focus on the roadmap to Mind-Body Health training for medical students / residents.