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An appraisal of psychotherapy training during psychiatry residency program in India: A national survey
Ajay Kumar1, Aditya Somani1, Suhas Chandran2
1Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chhatry, Chhattisgarh, India.
Background:
The need for psychotherapy training (PT) has been recognized worldwide and is considered an integral component of postgraduate psychiatry training. Our study aims to assess the quality of PT received by psychiatrists during their postgraduate studies and its impact on their current practice.
Aim:
To evaluate the quality of PT and its effect on the current psychiatry practice.
Methodology:
An anonymous web-based survey was conducted on registered psychiatrists practicing in India to evaluate the level and quality of PT received during their postgraduate studies.
Results:
The survey indicates that PT was included in the postgraduate psychiatry curriculum (73.8%). However, more than 50% of responders reported no separate posting, evaluation, logbook, or guidelines related to PT. Most (95.4%) psychiatrists think their PT could have been better. PT was satisfying in medical colleges in terms of inclusion in the curriculum (7.70, P = .021), psychotherapy rotations (16.48, P = <0.001), supervision of sessions (14.80, P = 0.001), lectures on psychotherapy (10.13, P = 0.006), periodic psychotherapy meet/forum (19.35, P = <0.001), maintenance of psychotherapy logbook/records (7.65, P = 0.022), institutional or departmental guideline related to PT (20.55, P = <0.001), and overall quality of PT (22.05, P = .005 and 31.81, P = <.001). Time constraint is the most common (49.9%) barrier in delivering psychotherapy.
Conclusion:
PT is not well organized, consistent, and uniform in psychiatry training; there is a prevailing sense of inadequacy and dissatisfaction among the country's psychiatrists with a perceived need to improve and learn PT.
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