title: Psychiatric aspects of clinical practice in general hospitals: a survey of non-psychiatric clinicians.
abstract: The present work was carried out to study the awareness of non-psychiatric clinicians working in a teaching general hospital about the frequency of psychiatric morbidity in their clinical practice, their utilization of psychiatric consultation services, and opinion about utility of liaison psychiatry in general hospitals. A substantial proportion of doctors underestimated the psychiatric morbidity especially about unexplained physical symptoms and specific depressive symptoms in their patients. Psychiatric consultation services were not sufficiently utilised by a large number of clinicians. Most ofthemfelt the need to improve upon undergraduate medical education in psychiatry in India as well as a desire to have consultation - liaison psychiatric units in India.
authors.affiliation: R.K. CHADDA, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, Shahdara, P.O. Jhilmil, Delhi -110 095.
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Chadda
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shome