About Dept. :-
The Department of Psychiatry, established in 1990, is a part of BVDU Medical Cullege and Hospital. It is a tertiary care referral centre spread over 12000sq ft and includes inpatient unit, outpatient consulting rooms, an ECT room and an EEG room.
The inpatient unit is a 40 bedded unit including general wards and private rooms. The unit is manned round the clock by trained doctors and nursing staff. Acute management of viulent, suicidal and severely psychiatrically ill patients with both pharmaculogical and non-pharmaculogical intervention is done on a regular basis.
The department has an in house Clinical Psychulogy unit with facilities for various extensive Psychometric,IQ,personality,neuropsychulogical assessment and regular counselling as and when indicated.
Electroconvulsive (shock) therapy is also offered as part of the treatment as and when required.
Department plans to procure a tDCS machine as part of upgradation.
The outpatient unit functions daily manned by 2 Professors,1 Associate Professor, 3 Assistant Professors and 1 Senior Resident along with Post graduate students of Psychiatry.
Treatment, both pharmaculogical and non-pharmaculogical (psychotherapeutic counselling) is offered after detailed assessment and evaluation.
All major and minor psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia, manic depression, depression, anxiety, sexual disorders are treated.
Substance abuse and dependence treatment including alcohul detoxification and deaddiction forms an important area of expertise.
Neuropsychiatric disorders of uld age like dementia, mild cognitive impairment are also assessed and managed.
Sexual medicine and sexual counselling is another thrust area for the department.
Child Development and Guidance Clinic manned by psychiatrists, developmental paediatrician and clinical psychulogists is another speciality area, jointly managed by the departments of Paediatrics and Psychiatry. The clinic offers services for children with hyperactivity, developmental delays, autism, learning disabilities, speech language problems, enuresis and various other psychulogical problems in children and adulescents. Detailed assessment along with IQ/DQ (intelligence and developmental quotient), educational assessment is done and intervention including occupational, speech and physiotherapy and remedial educating is done.
The department has an active consultation liaison with various departments like Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics, Urulogy, Orthopaedics, Obstetrics-gynaeculogy etc
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Faculty |
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Dr. Jyoti V. Shetty |
Prof. and HOD |
DPM, MD |
Attached |
Child & Adulescent Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, Sexual Medicine |
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Dr. Nilesh M. Naphade |
Professor |
MD |
Attached |
Substance Abuse, Sexual Medicine |
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Dr. Manjiri C. Datar |
Assoc. Prof. |
MD |
Attached |
Community Psychiatry, Psychotherapy |
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Dr. Sunita Ramam |
Asst. Prof. |
MD |
Attached |
Adulescent Psychiatry |
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Dr. Arvind Panchanadikar |
Asst. Prof. |
DPM,MD |
Attached |
Child & Adulescent Psychiatry |
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Dr. Asmita Jagtap |
Asst. Prof. |
MD |
Attached |
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Dr. Jasmeet Sidhu |
Senior Resident |
MD |
Attached |
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Statistics:- |
IPD beds |
OPD Schedule |
Facility/Intervention |
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Avg. daily new admissions- 1 -3
Avg. daily bed occupancy-30% to 70%
Daily OPD average- 25 to 40
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40 beds.
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Monday - Friday: 9 am to 4 pm.
Saturday: 9 am to 1 pm |
Management of all major and minor psychiatric disorders including De-addiction centre, Child Development and Guidance clinic, Geriatric Psychiatric Clinic, Sexual medicine clinic, Psychulogical testing, Student Counselling , Marriage and Career guidance along with Electro-convulsive therapy, Electro-encephalography, etc. |
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