DNB Facility

DNB Facility

Asha Hospital-Dnb Training

 

The course duration is of 3 years for primary DNB candidates and 2 years for secondary DNB candidates.

Course Eligibility:

Primary DNB – MBBS graduate and clearance of NEET-PG

Duration- 3 years

 

Secondary DNB – MBBS graduate along with DPM and clearance of NEET-PD CET
Duration- 2 years

 

Why ASHA?
DNB training program at Asha hospital was started in 2006.

 

Academics

  • There are weekly case presentations, seminars, and journal clubs.
  • CMEs are conducted once a month where the Residents are encouraged to present papers, cases, and posters.
  • Once every fortnight a seminar on specialty clinics is conducted by the faculty of that specialty.
  • As Asha is a hospital specializing in Psychiatry, even during the COVID pandemic, training in psychiatry has continued unabated with no compromises in the quality with the addition of weekly online webinars from NBE.

Out-Patient training
Each resident is trained in handling up to a maximum of 80 OP cases per day along with respective consultants and case discussions during the OP, to get an insight into the consultant’s decision-making process, Inpatient Training training in 24/7 emergency, ICU, high-risk wards apart from the general wards, allows residents to see the entire spectrum of severity and gain confidence in attending to any challenges that arise during treatment, Psychiatry patients with multiple comorbidities are managed in liaising with specialists of other branches as well as management in the ICU setup.

 

Neuromodulation
Hands-on experience in ECT, rTMS, tDCS, Biofeedback, polysomnography coupled with enormous patient load, and experience of the faculty instills decades of experience in these modalities in 3 years.

 

Speciality training
Within the 100 bedded main hospital – located in banjara hills – there are separate clinics for Geriatrics, Bipolar disorder, Schizophrenia, OCD, Child and adolescent, and Addiction medicine.

 

Residents are also posted at specialized centres for Long term care and Rehabilitation at Shamshabad – Asha Jyothi Rehabilitation Centre (AJRC – 150 bedded) and Asha De-Addiction centre (25 bedded) at jubilee hills and Golden Oak Geriatric care centre (40 bedded), a separate unit of Asha catering specifically to Women and child populations – ACCESS Psychology – exists at Panjagutta.

 

Clinical Research
The faculty here are and have been presidents of various national and international psychiatry organisations and there are great opportunities to work with them and gain experience in medical research and have publications to the resident’s name by the time the course is completed. Opportunities in participation in clinical drug trials, case studies, in coordination with multiple centres pan India.

 

Hostel Facilities
Girls Hostel is located behind Asha hospital within 100 metres at Banjara hills
Boys hostel is located at Asha de-addiction centre at Jubilee hills

 

DNB Students Achievements:

Dr Damodar Chari

Dr Damodar Chari

  • Dementia in India- epidemiology, in book Dementia thoughts, themes and variations; editors Dr Vidya Shenoy and Dr Avinash D’Souza
  • Interface with Cardiology, in book- Different Strokes Interfaces of psychiatry, editor- Dr Vinay Kumar

  • An Audit on valproate monitoring conducted at rehabilitation unit in South India

Dr Tejas D Gayal

Dr Tejas D Gayal

  • Best poster in IAPP 2018
  • Review article on “Neurobiology of ASD’ published in Telangana Journal of Psychiatry
  • Best outgoing DNB student of the year 2019

 

Dr Neelima Yadav

Dr Neelima Yadav

  • TSPSYCON 2019- Poster presentation
  • 20th IAPP 2019- Poster presentation on Role of therapeutic Non- Invasive brain stimulation techniques and clinical outcome of persistent auditory hallucinations
  • IAPP 2020- Samvedana womens award IAPP 2020- Role of Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) in suicide attempters in schizophrenia and major depression

Dr Isha Ahluwahlia

Dr Isha Ahluwahlia

  • Best Oral paper presentation for “Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia” in Alzheimers Dementia- The Neuro imaging co-relates; at 20th Annual National Conference of Indian Association of Private psychiatry 2019
  • Second prize in PG quiz competition at IPS- South Zonal branch PG CME 2020
  • Best Poster presentation for “Anti NMDA encephalitis- A case report”- at 21st IAPP national conference

Dr Sumathi K

Dr Sumathi K

  • Dr P R Reddy- IMH Alumini Association PG Award- for paper on “prevalence of general medical condition in people suffering with Bipolar Disorder” at TSPSYCON 2018
  • “Shantavahana Best Poster PG Award” for papers on “Factors leading to Long-Term Hospitalisation of people with Mental Illness” at IPSOCON 2018
  • Won 2nd prize in C M Channabasavaanna Spandana PG quiz award, conducted by IPS South Zpne 2020

Dr Balaji Sainath

Dr Balaji Sainath

  • Attenuated Psychosis- best case presentation award at ANCIAPP 2019
  • Factitious disorder- a rare case presentation- ASHA CME

Dr. Priyanka Kanjilal

Dr. Priyanka Kanjilal

  • 2020 ‘IAPP Varanasi award for best original research’ correlation between ACE3, Clock drawing test & MRI findings.

Dr. N. Chandresh

Dr. N. Chandresh

  • Poster presentation at ISBD 2021 – Seasonal Recurrences of Mania in Bipolar I Disorder

  • Chapter on Geratric mental health during COVID pandemic in IPS publication – ‘The parallel pandemic’ – 2021

  • 2020 ‘IAPP Varanasi award for best original research’ – correlation between ACE3, Clock drawing test & MRI findings.

Dr. Madhiha

Dr. Madhiha

  • “Shantavahana Best Poster PG Award” for paper on ‘CLINICAL STUDY TO SEE THE ASSOCIATION OF APOE, COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING AND NERUOIMAGING IN PATIENTS OF DEMENTIA – A STUDY FROM INDIA’ at IPSOCON South Zone 2021

  • Short Film on suicide prevention and dementia awareness at IPSOCON South Zone 2021

  • Chapter on Geratric mental health during COVID pandemic in IPS publication – ‘The parallel pandemic’ – 2021

Dr Vidya K L

Dr Vidya K L

  • Dr.Sharda Menon gold medal dec 2015

  • IABP award for best research paper in 2015

Dr. Aparna Badagala

Dr. Aparna Badagala

  • Dr. Sarada Menon Gold Medal for June 2017 DNB exam session

Dr.Karthika

Dr.Karthika

  • IAPP 2018 –  “PATTERN OF CHILDHOOD PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN A TERTIARY PSYCHIATRIC CENTRE”
  • TSPSYCON-2019 LateDr. G V Sitaramayya and M S Krishna Leela memorial award “SCHOOL REFUSAL- PSYCHOSOCIAL DISTRESS OR PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER?”
  • IPS ANCIPS 2020 – “EMERGENCE OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS IN A TERTIARY CHILD PSYCHIATRIC CENTRE”
  • ISBD 2020 – “Retrospective analysis of general medical conditions in people suffering with bipolar disorder”

LIST OF DNB RESIDENTS FROM ASHA(2006 – 2021)

  1. Dr. Narendra Kumar M S
  2. Dr. Kishore Kumar
  3. Dr. Vasu Deva S
  4. Dr. Radhika . M. Sangham
  5. Dr. Sai Ram
  6. Dr. Venkat Charan
  7. Dr. R.B. Naidu
  8. Dr. Vijaynath
  9. Dr. Arindam ChakraBarty Chinmoy
  10. Dr. Akhilesh K
  11. Dr. Vijayanad D
  12. Dr. Boyanpally Philip Kumar Lingaro
  13. Dr. Gala Neha Mahendra
  14. Dr. Shwetha D
  15. Dr. Bhavana Prasad
  16. Dr. Venkateshwar Reddy
  17. Dr. Swathi Braroo
  18. Dr. Sadeq Qureshi
  19. Dr. Delnaz Palsetia
  20. Dr. Srivastava
  1. Dr. Ashish Arya
  2. Dr. Abhishek Samal
  3. Dr. K.L.Vidya
  4. Dr. Raga Sandhya
  5. Dr. Aparna Badagala
  6. Dr. Sadhvi Mythili
  7. Dr. Bharath Reddy
  8. Dr. Idrees
  9. Dr. Rashmi
  10. Dr. Chari Damodar Raghunath
  11. Dr. Anubhuti Upadhyay
  12. Dr. Chrisenn
  13. Dr. Ritujha Roli
  14. Dr. Karthika Govindan
  15. Dr. Gayal Tejas Deepak
  16. Dr. Sumati Kumatgi
  17. Dr. Neelima Yadav
  18. Dr. Priyanka kumari
  19. Dr. Priyanka kanjilal
  20. Dr. Ahluwalia Isha Singh
  21. Dr. Balaji Sainath Annaluru
  22. Dr. Chandresh . N
  23. Dr. Madhiha. M
  24. Dr. Hari Kumar C. S
  25. Dr. Dileep Chakravarthy R.S