This book discusses teaching and training in psychiatry in South Asia. Teaching and training are the pillars of learning. Psychiatry teaching is evolving rapidly across the globe. The focus of teaching and training is gradually shifting towards developing and enhancing skills rather than just imparting knowledge about the subject. Recently, the structure of psychiatric teaching and training has undergone change following the adoption of competency based medical education in several countries. Change in curricular structure also attempts to homogenize the teaching and training of psychiatry across the globe. Understanding the regional trends, regional needs and exercising evidence-based and innovative techniques of teaching and training may strengthen psychiatry learning. South Asia is a densely populated region catering about 2 billion populations with homogeneity among this huge population. However, there is no comprehensive book comparing and contrasting teaching and training in South Asia, hence this book aims to achieve this.

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Dr. Sujita Kumar Kar is currently working as an Additional Professor of Psychiatry at King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is the editor-in-chief of Indian Journal of Health, Sexuality and Culture. He is also the editorial board member and reviewer of various national and international journals.

Dr. S M Yasir Arafat is currently working as an Associate Consultant of Psychiatry at Bangladesh Specialized Hospital Ltd. (BSHL), Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is affiliated with Dnet as an honorary Research Fellow and Biomedical Research Foundation, Bangladesh as Senior Research Fellow.

Dr. Vikas Menon is currently Professor of Psychiatry at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry. He completed postgraduate training in Psychiatry in 2008 from JIPMER. Subsequently, he was awarded the DNB (Psychiatry) degree in 2009. His areas of interest include digital psychiatry, suicidology and mood disorders. He has published more than 330 peer-reviewed research papers, 20 book chapters in edited volumes, and edited four books including the first dedicated book on Dhat syndrome.

Dr. M Kishor is currently Head of Department & Professor of Psychiatry, JSS Medical College & Hospital, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, Mysuru, Karnataka, India. He did his MBBS from SSMC Tumkur & MD Psychiatry, with University Rank from Bangalore KIMS, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bengaluru, India.

Prof. Mohan Isaac is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, and Consultant Psychiatrist, currently in charge of the "Early Interventions in Psychosis" (EIP) Team and the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team at Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, Australia.