The Department of Psychiatry at BGS Medical College & Hospital is committed to creating optimum mental health awareness among the adjoining rural community while providing comprehensive, stigma-free mental health services. The department aspires to be a premier tertiary centre fostering academic, clinical, and research activities.
Through specialised clinics for de-addiction, women's mental health, child psychiatry, geriatric memory care, and student counselling, the department combines compassionate care with academic rigour and innovative teaching methodology.
To create optimum mental health awareness among the adjoining rural community while providing comprehensive mental health services. To become a premier tertiary centre for fostering and encouraging academic, clinical and research activities.
Organise periodic awareness and outreach programmes on psychiatric disorders. Establish specialised clinics addressing addiction, geriatric care, sexual disorders, and student counselling. Guide undergraduates toward academic excellence and research. Develop postgraduate courses and allied mental health programmes.
The department operates a comprehensive set of specialised clinics, dedicated diagnostic facilities, and privacy-ensuring consultation infrastructure to deliver holistic mental health care.
Deaddiction services, women mental health care, child psychiatry, memory clinic for the elderly, ECT, biofeedback, and student counselling services.
Dedicated EEG & biofeedback room for diagnostic neurophysiology, biofeedback therapy, and academic demonstrations.
Consultation cabins designed for patient privacy, demonstration room for academic activities, and resourceful library with extensive collections.
Make mental health services stigma-free and accessible
Advance academic standards globally with cultural sensitivity
Establish infrastructure and secure funding for mental health services
Leverage modern technology like telepsychiatry and group counselling
The Department has developed the renowned AIMS model of teaching psychiatry, recognised by other institutions for its innovation in educational methodology and digitalisation of patient records. The model integrates classroom teaching with bedside clinics, specialised clinic exposure, and modern technology.
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