Natl Med J India
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Background Integrating psychiatric care into the general practice of primary care doctors (PCDs) is necessary to overcome the shortage of human resources to cater to the burgeoning public mental health needs of India. The traditional psychiatry curriculum is often top-down and specialist-based that contributes little in terms of skill quotient. We designed an innovative, digitally driven, distance education-based, part-time, modular-based Primary Care Psychiatry Programme (PCPP, skill-based). ⋯ Conclusion This PCPP curriculum contains pragmatic modules with higher TQ. This curriculum is dynamic as the learning is bi-directional. This can be used by policy-makers, innovators and academia for integration with national health programmes such as those for non-communicable diseases and reproductive and child health.
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The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has increased due to rapid digitization and integration of computer science in all fields. However, the outcome in relation to patient treatment and healthcare delivery is not that visible. ⋯ Including AI in medical school curriculum and collaboration with faculties of computer science can augment the knowledge of medical students about AI at the graduate level for better application in the real world. This will help the medical profession to prepare their younger fraternity for the future in AI.
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The General Hospital (GH) of Madras (presently Chennai) grew out of a hospital intended for the personnel attached to the Madras army-a Military Hospital (MH)-established within the Fort St George in 1664. Although the GH grew out of this MH, its relocation at its present Périamét (then known as Narimédu, Hog's Hill) site in 1772, bearing the name 'General Hospital' marks its 250th anniversary in 2022. From being MH that serviced the 'white' residents of Madras, it opened to locals in 1899. ⋯ Surgeon Samuel Browne's erroneous dispensation of a medication resulted in the death of James Wheeler, a prominent English-East India Company (EEIC) civil servant in Madras. Following an order to execute an investigation by the Governor, Fort St George, an autopsy of the body of Wheeler was carried out by Surgeon Edward Bulkley. Further to referring to such landmark historical details of early time segments of the MH and GH, we briefly refer to the remarkable medical work of Charles Donovan, William Niblock and Mysore Ramaswami Guruswami Mudaliar, who worked at the GH in the early decades of the 20th century.