Training General Practitioners in Psychiatry - a New Venture

نویسندگان

  • C. Shamasundar
  • S.K. Chaturvedi
  • N. Desai
  • S. Girimaji
  • R. Raguram
  • S. Sheshadri
چکیده

Formal training programmes in psychiatry for general practitioners (GPs) by Psychiatrists so far reported have involved MBBS graduates. But, a considerable proportion of registered medical practitioners who serve the community are non-MBBS about whose training needs, no experience is yet available. This paper describes a training programme in which an attempt was made to know the training needs of the non-MBBS GPs and also to assess the potential of the previously trained GPs to complementarily assist the psychiatrists in such training programmes.

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عنوان ژورنال:

دوره 30  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1988