title: Training general practitioners in psychiatry - a new venture.
abstract: Formal training programmes in psychiatry for general practitioners (GPs) by Psychiatrists so far reported have involved MBBS graduates. But, a considerable proportion of registered medical practitioners who serve the community are non-MBBS about whose training needs, no experience is yet available. This paper describes a training programme in which an attempt was made to know the training needs of the non-MBBS GPs and also to assess the potential of the previously trained GPs to complementarily assist the psychiatrists in such training programmes.
authors.affiliation: Assoc. Professor, of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore - 560 029.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Shamasundar
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Chaturvedi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Desai
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Girimaji
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Raguram
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sheshadri