Unlike other professionals, work pressure and competition have exerted its dreadful effects on medical professionals too. Due to the indefinite work duties, long working hours and brain-draining medical practice , depression has become the most prominent illness in Indian doctors. To combat a large number of incidences related to depression and other psychiatric illnesses in doctors, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) in association with the Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS) has started a course named, “Competency Development In Depression Management For Doctors” .
Owing to the deficit of psychiatrists in the country and inability to provide mental health services to such a huge population, this noble initiative is designed to screen, identify and deal with this population. The course includes a one-month learning digital-only certificate and ten hours of self-paced learning modules…
