MD Psychiatry

According to Economics Times, India has 0.75% Psychiatrists per 100,000 people. This depicts the huge gap between mental health patients and experts. Now is a perfect time to opt for careers that can help resolve the alarming mental health situation in India as well as the world. MD Psychiatry is an excellent course for all the medical degree holders out there who wish to contribute to the well-being of society. It is a 3-year-long postgraduate course that can be pursued after completing a medical degree from a recognised university. 

Course Level	Post Graduate
Duration	3 years
Examination Type	Phase System
Eligibility	MBBS, BDS, DMS, DHMS, BHMS, BAMS, BASM, BEMS, BIAMS, BNYT, BATS, BUMS, IAMS, BPT, B.Pharma., N.O., or M.D(A.M).
Admission Process	Based on the performance in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET)
Course Fee	INR 25,000 to 20 Lacs
Average Starting Salary	INR 2 to 30 Lacs per year
Top Recruiting Companies	Healthcare environments include hospitals, physician practices, integrative healthcare clinics, public health clinics, college health centres, natural apothecaries, and in settings that care for military veterans.
Job Positions	Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Forensic Psychiatrist Clinical Psychiatrist Staff Psychiatrist Prison Psychiatrist Behavioral Specialist Neuropsychiatrist, and such.

What is MD Psychiatry? 

A doctorate of Medicine in Psychiatrist is a postgraduate degree. Psychiatrists are doctors with special medical training in mental disorders and have the authority to prescribe medication. MD Psychiatry course can help you research and master psychiatric syndromes like anxiety disorders, psychotic moods and many others. After pursuing MD in Psychiatry you can further work for any government or private institution clinics or can work as a counsellor at college, school, and industries. Post Graduation course is for 3 years and for those having a diploma in similar subjects is for 2 years. 

MD Psychiatry Subjects And Syllabus

The subjects and syllabus can be different across institutions. The syllabus given below is an overview of MD Psychiatry Subjects:  

Semester I 

1. Basic sciences 
2. Excitatory Amino Acids in Psychiatric Disorders
3. Experimental Animal Research and Implications for Mental Disorder
4. Learning Theories
5. Information Processing: Brain Models of Mind
6. Intelligence
7. Transcultural Psychiatry
8. Aggression: Psychology and Biology
9. Sleep and Dreaming
10. Chronobiology
11. Second Messenger Systems and Beyond
12. Excitatory Amino Acids in Psychiatric Disorders
13. Second Messenger Systems and BeyondBasic and applied 
14. Electrophysiology
15. Neuropeptides and their relevance to Psychiatry

Semester II 

1. Concept and Typology of Personality Disorders
2. Course and Outcome of Mood Disorders
3. Course, Outcome and Prognosis of Schizophrenia
4. Clinical Psychiatry
5. Organic Delusional, Mood and Personality Disorders
6. Approaching Psychiatric Diagnosis and Classification
7. Brief and Reactive Psychosis
8. Subtypes of Depressive Disorders and their Clinical Relevance
9. Paranoid Disorders
10. Concept and Typology of Personality Disorders
11. Biological Basis of Schizophrenia
12. Aetiology and Clinical Profile of Dementias
13. Etiological Theories of Mood Disorders

Semester III

1. Nosological status and natural history
2. The current concept of dissociative disorders
3. Nosological status and clinical features of Neurasthenia
4. Non-organic sleep disorders
5. Habit and impulse disorders
6. Biological basis of anxiety
7. Management of premature ejaculation
8. Non-organic sleep disorders
9. Somatization disorders: Diagnosis and clinical features
10. Reactions to severe stress
11. Anxiety disorders
12. The current concept of dissociative disorders

Semester IV

1. Scientific evaluation of the efficacy of psychotherapy: methodological problems
2. Behavioural therapies
3. Supportive psychotherapies
4. Comparative pharmacology of antipsychotic drugs
5. Electro-convulsive Therapy: current trends
6. Drug treatment of generalized anxiety and panic disorders
7. Role of Lithium in Psychiatric disorders
8. Management of a suicidal patient
9. antidepressant drug therapy
10. pathophysiology and management
11. Comparative pharmacology of antipsychotic drugs
12. Supportive psychotherapies
13. Cognitive therapies
14. Scientific evaluation of the efficacy of psychotherapy: methodological problems
15. Brief dynamic psychotherapies

Semester V

1. Epidemiology of psychiatric Illness in Old Age with Special Reference to India.
2. Integration of Mental Health into Primary Care – Its Role and Future in India.
3. Learning Disorders of Childhood
4. School Refusal
5. Pervasive Developmental Disorders of Childhood
6. Neuropsychological Assessment of Children
7. Classification of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders.
8. Current Issues in Management of Elderly Psychiatric Patients.
9. Integration of Mental Health into Primary Care – Its Role and Future in India.
10. Indian Mental Health Act

Semester VI

1. Psychiatric Syndromes with Epilepsy
2. Neuro-psychiatric Sequelae of HIV Infection
3. Psychological Aspects of Breast Cancer. 
4. Obesity
5. Psychological Aspects of Organ Transplantation
6. Assessment and its Relevance to Psychiatric Diagnosis and Management
7. Concept and Assessment of Disability
8. The Terminally Ill Patient and Family
9. Psychological Aspects of Cardio-vascular Disorders
10. Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
11. Psychiatric Syndromes with Epilepsy
12. Delirium: Differential Diagnosis and Management
13. Dementia: Differential Diagnosis and Management
14. Neuro-psychiatric Sequelae of HIV Infection
15. Psychological Aspects of Gastro-intestinal Disorders

Eligibility Criteria 

• Medical students with MBBS, BDS, DMS, DHMS, BHMS, BAMS, BASM, BEMS, BIAMS, BNYT, BATS, BUMS, IAMS, BPT, B.Pharma., N.O., or M.D(A.M) can pursue MD Psychiatry. 
• In India, the eligibility criteria to pursue this course are both merit and entrance based. The popular exams to follow MD Psychiatry are – NEET PG and GATE.
• To study MD Psychiatry abroad, students must clear the MCAT exam with an average score of 511 or more. Along with this an IELTS score of 7.0 with no less than 6.0 or TOEFL (IBT) with 100 (minimum 20 in Speaking and 19 in all other elements is required.  

Note: There can be other requirements specific to the university you pick. Get in touch with Leverage Edu experts at 1800 57 2000 to know more!

Top 10 Universities for MD Psychiatry in the World

Name of University	Place
Harvard University	The United States|Cambridge (U.S.)
King’s  College London	The United Kingdom|London (U.K.)
Stanford	United States|Stanford
Columbia	United States|New York City
Yale University	United States|New Haven
University of Oxford	United Kingdom|Oxford
University College London	The United Kingdom|London (U.K.)
University of Toronto	Canada|Toronto
University of Amsterdam	Netherlands|Amsterdam
University of California–Los Angeles	United States|Los Angeles

Top 10 Colleges in India for MD Psychiatry

Name of College	Place
CMC Vellore- Christian medical college	Vellore, Tamil Nadu
St Johns Medical college	Banglore, Karnataka
AIIMS, Delhi	New Delhi, Delhi
Kasturba medical college	Manipal, karnataka
MS Ramaiah Medical College	Banglore, karnataka
AFMC Pune – Armed Forces Medical College.	Pune, Maharashtra
KPC medical college and hospital	Kolkata, West Bengal
Maulana Azad medical college	New Delhi, Delhi
Grant medical college	Mumbai, Maharashtra
IMS BHU Institute of medical sciences  Banaras hindu university	Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

MD Psychiatry Admission Process

The application process takes place over some time and begins months before the commencement of classes. The universities have two main intakes known as the fall intake and winter intake for international students to kickstart their journey. You can call our Leverage Edu experts on 1800 572 000 to find out how the application process can be fast-tracked and streamlined. Here’s an easy 5-step process to complete your application process:

1. Call our experts on 1800 572 000 to shortlist your favourite universities and courses. Please start your application to multiple universities through our one dashboard platform
2. Compile all your documents like SOPs, essays, certificates and LORs and exam scores like IELTS, TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, etc
3. Meet all the applications deadlines and start the application process for accommodation, USA students visa, and scholarships/student loans
4. Accept the offer letter and meet your teachers, college mates and roommates virtually
5. Get your visa approved and fly to your dream university!

Career Opportunities After MD Psychiatry

After MD Psychiatry the average salary offered is approximately INR 75000 per month in India. Following job roles are open after completing MD Psychiatry:

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist- As a speciality, child psychiatry looks specifically at and treats behavioural disorders and emotional problems affecting children.
• Prison Psychiatrist- In state and federal correctional systems, as well as in some local jails, prison psychiatrists provide mental health care to inmates.
• Staff Psychiatrist- Staff psychiatrists are responsible for making definitive diagnoses and decisions regarding patients.
• Behavioural Specialist- Treatment for mental health disorders is referred to as behavioural therapy.
• Neuropsychiatrist- A neuropsychiatric speciality, called organic psychiatry or neuropsychiatry, aims to begin to understand and attribute human behaviour to the interaction of neurobiology and social psychology

MD Psychiatry Jobs & Salary

Job Position	Average Annual Pay Scale in INR
Psychiatric Social Worker	6,50,000
Special Education Teachers	1,84,206
Physicians	8,75,000
Child psychiatrists	1,250,000
Recreation workers	2,606,782

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