Psychiatry - 2015
October 5 – 10 (2015) – Mental Health Week Celebration
Department of Psychiatry of Sri ManakulaVinayagar Medical College and Hospital along with Sri Manakula Vinayagar Nursing College hosted a 6 days event with venue in Sri ManakulaVinayagar Medical College and Hospital to celebrate Mental Health Week. This event comprised of the Inauguration Ceremony on day 1, Off Campus Celebrations along with Mental Health Camp on day 2, visiting the FLSH Center and “Spending a Day with Mentally Challenged” on day 3, celebrating “Mental Health Awareness Among Nursing Students” on day 4 with various competitions for nursing students, prize distributions on day 5, and celebration of “World Mental Health Day” in the department on day 6. We were fortunate to listen to Dr.Ashok Kumar, Professor of Department of Psychiatry, Rajah Muthiah Medical College, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, who gave a scintillating speech on “Substance Abuse-The Unmet Challenge” during the inauguration ceremony. We also had very informative speech on this year’s theme “Dignity in Psychiatry” on Day 1 and a lecture on “Stigma against Mentally Ill” by Dr.R.Kumar, Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry. This year’s WHO aim of raising awareness to ensure people with mental health conditions to continue to live with dignity and training health professionals was accomplished through this event in our hospital. Overall experience of this event by the students and other faculties was very applauding.
September 10 (2015) – World Suicide Prevention Day Celebration
World suicide prevention day 2015 was conducted by Department of Psychiatry, Sri ManakulaVinayagar Medical College and Hospital, in Auditorium as an interactive session and 215 MIT students participated in this program. This event was conducted from 9AM to 1PM. Suicidal ideations being more common in adolescent population, this event was conducted as an effort to spread awareness in the student population. This was achieved through a lecture addressing in particular the identifiable risk factors by any common man about the suicidal ideations in adolescent population. The lecture was delivered by Dr.K.Vinoth, Asst. Professor, Department of Psychiatry, SMVMCH. Many queries were raised during this event, and the interest among students of MIT truly surprised us on how students were ready to come forward and discuss about this much needed topic of the hour and we were amazed by this event turning out to be a grand success.
November 27 (2015) – CME on Child Psychiatry
We, Department of Psychiatry, Sri ManakulaVinayagar Medical College and Hospital successfully organized and conducted a CME titled “Child Psychiatry- Understanding the Juvenile Jigsaw” with TNMC Accreditation of two credit points with venue for this event being our hospital. Nearly 150 postgraduates and consultants of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, clinical psychologists and social workers came along to participate in this CME. It was one day program with lectures related to Child Psychiatry through use of challenging case scenario discussions. To begin with an enlightening lecture on “Child Sexual Abuse” was delivered by Dr.T.V.Asokan, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, SRM Medical College, Chennai addressing the long term effects of child sexual abuse. Followed by a very informative lecture on “ADHD-Current Management Strategies and Differential Diagnosis” by Dr.V.Jayanthini, Professor and Head in Psychiatry at Chettinad Medical college, Chennai. Next lecture was given by Dr.K.Raman, Associate Professor, Saveetha Medical College, Chennai, about “School Refusal”. After this was a talk on “Childhood Bipolar Disorder” by Dr. Shanthi Nambi, Professor and Head, Department of Child Psychiatry, ICH, Chennai. Next scintillating speech on “Autism Spectrum Disorder” was given by Dr.Preethi Kandasamy. Dr.R.Kumar, Professor and Head, SMVMCH, gave the final lecture of this event titled “The Art of Good Parenting”. Following the lectures there was a panel discussion. The comments given by participants were positive and very heartening as their feedback stated the lectures to be very informative, easily comprehensible and interactive.
