General Hospital in Postgraduate Psychiatric Training and Research

It is generally accepted that psychiatry is moving away from mental hospitals. The practice of psychiatry is more community based and community oriented. This shift is also evident in the field of psychiatric training and research both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. About 70% of the medical schools of our country have psychiatric departments and provide some form of education in psychiatry at undergraduate levels. At postgraduate level, the member of institutions offering training has also increased. In the beginning of 1960, only 2 centres in the whole country provided postgraduate instructions in psychiatry, now there are about 25 such postgraduate training centres. With the exception of two centres which are autonomous psychiatric establishments, the rest are in the setting of general hospitals.