Asst. Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore.
Indian J Psychiatry. 1983 Oct;25(4):298-305.
A large proportion of clients of General practitioners suffer from psychiatric morbidity and they are either not identified at all or are only inadequately managed because their training in psychiatry at the undergraduate level is insufficient.The training of GPs in psychiatry economically in a short course, and evaluation of such training is a challenging task. Only recently some sporadic efforts are being made to develop and evolve training programmes in an increasingly thorough manner.A 20 weeks, once a week training programme for 30 motivated GPs was conducted at NIMHANS, Bangalore in 1979-80. This training programme which was more thoroughly structured was based on the experiences from an earlier unstructured once a month, 2 year course conducted at Bangalore in 1977-78.The results were not only encouraging but also highlighted a few challenging areas for further work.
相当一部分全科医生的患者都患有精神疾病，但他们要么完全没有被发现，要么只是得到了不充分的治疗，因为他们在本科阶段接受的精神病学培训是不足够的。在短时间内以经济有效的方式对全科医生进行精神病学培训，并对这种培训进行评估是一项具有挑战性的任务。直到最近，才有人开始努力以一种越来越全面的方式来开发和完善培训计划。1979-1980 年，在班加罗尔的印度国家心理健康与神经科学研究所（NIMHANS）为 30 名积极主动的全科医生举办了一项为期 20 周、每周一次的培训计划。这个培训计划更加系统，是基于 1977-1978 年在班加罗尔举办的一次非结构化的、每月一次、为期两年的课程的经验。结果不仅令人鼓舞，还突出了一些具有挑战性的领域，需要进一步研究。
