Overview
1. Our hopes and Vision rest upon, scientific advances and research which have added greatly to our understanding of human behavior and ability to modify it .
2. The department attempts to proceed with a rigorous approach appropriate to the sophistication of today’s students & higher academic standards set in our College.
3. Our aim is to provide basic knowledge of psychiatry for undergraduate medical students , by clinical training in interview, diagnosis und management of common psychiatric disorders .
Psychiatry is the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various abnormalities related to mood, behavior, cognition, and perceptions. This subject is included in the course of MBBS as a allied subject of the Medicine. The purpose of this subject is to enable a student to understand the concept of psychiatric disorders and their classification and to apply this knowledge to diagnose and treat common psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, acute manic episode, depression, anxiety disorders including phobias and OCD, conversion and dissociative disorders sexual disorder, de-addiction. “To Study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal”
Mission / Vision1. Our hopes and Vision rest upon, scientific advances and research which have added greatly to our understanding of human behavior and ability to modify it .
2. The department attempts to proceed with a rigorous approach appropriate to the sophistication of today’s students & higher academic standards set in our College.
3. Our aim is to provide basic knowledge of psychiatry for undergraduate medical students , by clinical training in interview, diagnosis und management of common psychiatric disorders .
VISION
To be the regional center for delivering state of art patient care and training to medical students in mental & behavioral health sciences and research.
MISSIONTo provide a wide range of high quality mental & behavioral health services with commitment, dedication, clinical excellence, community collaboration and research to meet the changing behavioral health care needs of the saurastra region of Gujarat state.
Objectives of the department- To provide ethical & evidence-based mental health care with compassion & dedication.
- To help undergraduate medical students acquire basic knowledge & skills pertaining to diagnosis & treatment of common mental disorders, handling of psychiatric emergencies & referral to a specialist.
- To direct postgraduate students towards the acquisition of in-depth knowledge, skills & attitudes required for the competent & ethical practice of evidence-based psychiatry in a variety of service settings.
- To train postgraduate residents in educational technology & research methodology.
- To help students acquire an optimal attitude towards mental health & mental illness.
- To promote faculty activities relevant to continuing professional development.
- To enhance the mental health literacy of the community
- To promote research activities.
FACILITIES & SERVICES:
- OPD chambers for faculty & residents.
- The OPD consultation and medical procedure services as well as emergency services for 24 hours.
- Clinic area for OPD for hospital based teaching.
- Indoor services for patients requiring admission in hospital.
- Indoor facilities with facilities of ECT, pharmacotherapy and psychotherapies for Patients
- Diagnostic facilities e.g. EEG
- Center for counseling to the patients with psychosomatic disorders
- Dedicated specialty clinics in OPD as Child Psychiatry clinic, Sex clinic, and Geriatric clinic.
- Periodical Health Education services as exhibition & workshops on stress and time management for community
- Health Education camps for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of psychosomatic disorders.