COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need to reconsider psychiatry training of Indian medical graduate

M Kishor¹, Vikas Menon², HR Vinay³, Manik C Bhise⁴, Mohan Isaac⁵, Suhas Chandran⁶, Ajay Kumar⁷, Naresh Nebhinani⁸, Ravi Gupta⁹, Shubhangi S Dere¹⁰, Anil Kakunje¹¹, G Bharathi¹², MV Ashok⁶, Anil Nischal^13
1 Department of Psychiatry, JSS Medical College, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysore, Karnataka, India
² Department of Psychiatry, JIPMER, Puducherry, India
³ Department of Psychiatry, Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, Mandya, Karnataka, India
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, MGM Medical College and Research Center, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India
⁵ Department of Clinical Psychiatry, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, St John's Medical College, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
⁷ Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chhattisgarh
⁸ Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
⁹ Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
¹⁰ Department of Psychiatry, MGM Medical College, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
¹¹ Department of Psychiatry, Yenepoya Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
¹² Department of Psychiatry, Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences, Hassan, Karnataka, India
¹³ Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Correspondence Address:
Dr. M Kishor
Department of Psychiatry, JSS Medical College, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysore, Karnataka
India

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/ijhas.IJHAS_61_20