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Postgraduate Training in Psychiatry in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Shridhar Sharma*
Affiliation:
Goa Medical College, Panaji-Goa, India
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Modern medical education in India began in 1822 in a medical school at Calcutta, but postgraduate medical education started much later. It was restricted to two or three medical colleges at the beginning of this century and was confined to a few specialties such as medicine, surgery and midwifery. Where such qualifications existed, very few students enrolled. Today more than 80 out of a total of 107 medical colleges have facilities for postgraduate training in sixteen broad specialties and over a dozen sub-specialties such as cardiology, nephrology and aviation medicine.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1979

References

Sharma, S. D. (1976) Psychiatry as a speciality. Paper read during the Symposium on Postgraduate Training of Psychiatry in India for the 28th Annual Conference of the Indian Psychiatric Society held at Nagpur in February 1976.Google Scholar
Chakraborty, Ajita (1974) A challenge of transcultural psychiatry. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, XI, 102–7.Google Scholar
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