Comments on, “need to develop 'interventional psychiatry' as a subspecialty in India”

Focus on psychiatry in India.

Consultation-liaison psychiatry: a new psychiatric subspecialty in Switzerland.

Although psychiatry has a long tradition in Switzerland, C–L psychiatry is a newcomer. The continuous reduction in recent years of the number of beds in psychiatric hospitals favored the development of C–L services. The results of a survey of C–L psychiatry showed that in Switzerland C–L services are provided in general hospitals, even in the small and rural ones [1]. An important step was achi...

Evolution of a new multidisciplinary subspecialty: interventional neuroradiology/neuroendovascular surgery.

Geriatric psychiatry: a subspecialty whose time has come.

W hat is geriatric psychiatry? Simply put, it is the subspecialty dealing with the assessment and management of mental disorders occurring in late life—a period occasionally and somewhat arbitrarily defined as aged 65 years and over (1). This definition falsely simplifies what we do as geriatric psychiatrists and does not acknowledge the scope of practice and the specific skills requisite to th...

Curriculum and syllabus for Interventional Cardiology subspecialty training in Europe.