Psychiatry for NEET PG

What Psychiatry covers

• Psychotic disorders
• Mood disorders
• Anxiety and related disorders
• Substance use
• Organic mental disorders
• Eating and sleep disorders
• Psychopharmacology
• Child and adolescent psychiatry

A study map from the standard curriculum. Check the official bulletin for the authoritative topic list.

How to study it

1. 1

   Learn each diagnosis by its core features and its first-line treatment.

2. 2

   Revise psychotropic drugs with their classic adverse effects and monitoring.

3. 3

   Be precise on definitions: delusion, hallucination, illusion, passivity.

Where students slip

• Confusing symptoms of mania with those of schizophrenia.
• Forgetting drug interactions and monitoring.

Where the Psychiatry practice questions concentrate

Our 933 worked Psychiatry questions fall into these areas, largest first. This shows what our practice set emphasises. It is not a prediction of the exam's weightage.

• Substance use 83
• Psychopharmacology 81
• Mood disorders 65
• Psychotic disorders 48
• Organic mental disorders 44
• Child and adolescent psychiatry 34
• Anxiety and related disorders 33
• Child psychiatry 27
• Eating and sleep disorders 27
• Anxiety disorders 26
• Antipsychotics 25
• Organic psychiatry 25

Browse all Psychiatry worked questions

Four quick-revision cards

• First-line treatment for OCD?

  SSRIs at higher doses for longer, plus exposure and response prevention.

• Teratogenic risks of lithium, valproate and thalidomide?

  Lithium: Ebstein's anomaly. Valproate: neural tube defects. Thalidomide: phocomelia.

• Which are the Schneiderian first-rank symptoms?

  Thought insertion, withdrawal, broadcasting, passivity, delusional perception, certain auditory hallucinations.

• Treatment of delirium tremens?

  Benzodiazepines plus thiamine; supportive care.

All Psychiatry flashcards · 18 Psychiatry mnemonics

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