FAQs
The Course is open to psychiatrists and psychiatry trainees anywhere in India. We feel it would be most useful to those who are at the Assistant or Associate Professor level and are guiding postgraduate students with theses. At the same time, in previous batches, even private practitioners found the course useful. Overall, some preference will be given to members of the Indian Psychiatric Society South Zonal Branch.
Yes. There is no exam after the course. You will get a Course Completion Certificate that mentions whether you participated in the first and second contact sessions and what percentage of Zoom sessions you attended.
You can attend the two contact sessions, the Zoom sessions, and the online activities. You get an option to take part in a multicentric study and a systematic review and meta-analysis.
During the contact sessions, you get breakfast, lunch, and morning and evening tea and snacks. You will get the completion certificate. However, you have to pay for travel and accommodation. We will try to provide low-cost accommodation at the hostels of the institutions where the contact sessions happen.
You also get the right to attend the Zoom sessions of the future editions of the BCPR for free if you wish so.
The two contact sessions will be of 3.5 days each. The Zoom sessions, which may be 20-25 in number, would be of two hours each. The online activities would be there about six days a week and may take 15-30 minutes to complete. If you decide to join a team preparing a systematic review or the multi-centric study, they would need corresponding amounts of time.
Attendance in any of the above is purely voluntary; we exert no force of any kind in this regard.
Most likely, yes. Last year, our first contact session was awarded six credit hours by the Karnataka Medical Council. This year, as the second contact session would happen in another state, we expect to get a similar number of hours for that one, too.
That will depend on the decision of the concerned speaker. Last year, we had provided recordings of some of the presentations. It is always better to attend the live session and actively participate in the discussions.
If you are unable to attend the Course due to unavoidable circumstances, we can postpone your seat to the next batch. If you lose interest in the Course after registration and let us know about it before 15th January 2025, we will refund 50% of the amount.
Total marks of 100 is divided as follows:
- Rationale and Novelty: 20
- Methods: 20
- Data Management and Statistics: 15
- Budget and public health implications: 15
- Slide quality: 10
- Presentation: 10
- Q and A by the group: 10