Maharashtra University of Health Sciences Courses

M.D. (Psychiatry)

 Course Syllabus

Basic Sciences As Applied To Psychiatry

• Neuroanatomy
  • Developmental
  • Central peripheral autonomic
  • Principles of Brain imaging
• Neurophysiology
  • Normal sleep
  • Basic cell
  • Of thought ,cognition mood and Motor function
• Neurochemistryo Neurotransmitters
  • In emotion, memory,behaviour
• Applied Neurophysiology., Neurochemistry., Neuroanatomy in relation to physical factors affecting psychiatric disorders.

Psychology

• Basic principles e.g. Learning, memory, motivation, emotion and stress etc.
• Applied psychology – behaviour science
• Sensory processes and perception
• Thinking and language
• Social perception, Influences and relationships
• Attitudes and beliefs
• Developmental psychology child development
• Personality structure
• Psychological assessment and testing (IQ and cognition)
• EEG
• Genetics

Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuropsychiatry And Behavioural Medicine Sychiatry

• Introduction to mental health and psychiatric disorders
• History taking and clinical examination in psychiatry
• Classificatory systems.
• History of Psychiatry
• Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.
• Mood Disorders
• Anxiety and Somatoform and dissociative disorders
• Substance related disorders
• Sexual disorders
• Sleep disorders
• Eating disorders
• Psychiatric disorders due to General Medical Consumption including HIV
• Disaster and Psychiatry
• Special population in psychiatry
• Personality disorders
• Impulse control disorders
• Adjustment disorders
• Relational problems
• Psychiatric emergencies
• Deliberate self harm/Suicide
• Transcultural psychiatry
• Child and adolescent psychiatry
• Family psychiatry
• Geriatric psychiatry
• Community psychiatry in relation to India (NMHP)
• Forensic psychiatry (Mental Health Act)
• Ethics
• Human rights
• Rehabilitation.
• Psychosomatic disorders including stress
• Therapies
  • Biological - ECT and Psychopharmacology
  • Psychosocial interventions
  • Psychotherapy
  • Behaviour therapy
  • Therapies based on Indian philosophy

Neurology, Neuropsychiatry

• Clinical history and CNS examination•ï€ Head injuries
• Alcohol and substance
• Toxic & metabolic & endocrine Disorders
• Nutritional
• Dementias
• Delirium
• SOL
• Infections and inflammatory diseases including HIV
• Movement disorders
• Epilepsy
• CVA
• Investigations
• Medicine as Related To Psychiatry
  • Consultation liason psychiatry
  • Medicine and allied
  • Surgery and allied
  • Gynecology and Obstetrics and allied