Department of Psychiatry

Department of psychiatry has eminent psychiatrists and other mental health professionals for providing facilities to treat wide range of mental health issues. It is an exclusive department that provides medico legal consultations to the patients of mental sub normality and other chronic mental disabilities. The department also deals with child and adolescent psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, psychosexual disorders and de-addiction. Training in psychiatry prepares the students to interview the patient, establish rapport, elicit detailed psychiatric case history, conduct mental status assessment, assessment of psychopathological symptoms and signs, diagnose and manage common psychiatric disorders, follow principles of consultation-liaison psychiatry.