Undergraduate training in psychiatry an evaluation.

With the recognition of the inadequacy of psychiatric services in India, maximinig health care delivery has become apriority. Tliere is therefore need to concentrate upon undergraduate psychiatric training as means to increase the availabe numbers of professionals equipped to treat psychiatric disorders (Channabasavanna, 1986). Towards this end the present M.B.B.S. Psychiatric Training Programme of Unit I Department of Psychiatiy Christian Medical College was evaluated, mainly with regard to gain in theoretical and clinical skills, but also with regard to change in attitude.