title: Clinical vignettes for assessment of training general practitioners in psychiatry.
abstract: Training of non-psychiatrist medical professionals in psychiatry through short courses is an urgent need recognised by the National Mental Health Policy. In order to improve the training programmes over a time, a suitable method of evaluation of the effect of training is essential. Such a method of evaluation was developed at NIMHANS using clinical vignettes. These vignettes were successfully used in the I. C. M. R. Multi-centre Project of Training non-psychiatrist primary care doctors in 1982-83. This paper describes the effectiveness of the clinical vignettes as tools of evaluating short training programmes.
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Shamasundar
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: John
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Kaliaperumal
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Verghese
authors.lastname: Chandramauli
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Isaac