title: Practising forensic psychiatry: creating awareness amongst psychiatry residents.
abstract: Forensic psychiatry is still obscure a discipline amongst the practising psychiatrists; so awareness should be created in the young residents pursuing this stream. It is prudent of setting a curriculum for the general psychiatry residents to learn the relevant topics of forensic psychiatry through didactic lectures, seminars, case-discussions and witnessing case proceedings. This topic could enable budding psychiatrists to acquire the skills of the legal aspects of psychiatry. This challenging yet little known branch of medicine can rejuvenate trainee psychiatry residents to specialise further orconduct research activities.
authors.affiliation: RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata 700004.
authors.forename: Mausumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sinha
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D002568:Certification; D002961:Civil Rights; D003219:Confidentiality; D003479:Curriculum; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005104:Expert Testimony; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education