The Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Deoghar started to function in January 2021, with its outpatient services from 25th August 2021. It provides quality mental health services in terms of consultations in outpatient (OPD), Inpatient (IPD) and community services. The faculty and residents of this department cater to a wide range of patients with mental illness like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, OCD, sexual disorders, perinatal mental health problems, childhood neurodevelopmental disorders like ADHD, Intellectual Disability, Autism, etc. It also has an Addiction Treatment Facility (ATF), which caters to addictive disorders due to alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, opioids, etc which are managed by trained faculty, residents and other staffs. The department also has neuromodulation services like ECT, while other techniques like TMS, tDCS, are in the pipeline.
The Department trains MBBS students from 2021. Psychiatry is a separate undergraduate subject for these students in their 3rd Prof Part-1 wherein they learn the basics and the details of mental illness and their management. It has also started Postgraduate teaching (MD Psychiatry) in the current academic year (2023).
Research activities are a priority in this department. All the faculties and residents take active part in research. As of now the department has obtained funding from WHO, ICMR, Bloomberg Initiatives (Vital Strategies), MRU-AIIMS Deoghar for various research projects, and looks forward for many facets of research in near future.
