MBBS subject guide
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is examined through the interview as much as the textbook, and the NMC competency framework codes both the skills and the disorders.
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Psychiatry is examined through the interview as much as the textbook, and the NMC competency framework codes both the skills and the disorders. MedNext covers all 17 chapters against those codes, so clinical assessment, the psychotic, mood and anxiety disorders, substance use and the psychiatric emergencies each sit against a checklist rather than a vague sense of a subject that is easy to leave until last. Communication, rapport and the mental status examination under PS1 and PS3 open the subject and run through every case, because the viva turns on whether you can elicit and document findings, not only name a diagnosis. Schizophrenia and the other psychotic disorders, depression and bipolar disorder form the high-yield core, with their clinical features, investigation and pharmacological management tested year after year. The anxiety, stress-related and somatoform disorders round out the common outpatient presentations, and each chapter follows the same structure of magnitude, clinical features, treatment and referral, which makes the framework easy to revise against. Substance use disorders carry particular weight in an Indian curriculum, and the psychiatric emergencies and therapeutics chapter captures the situations that demand a quick, safe response. Each chapter pairs a detailed reading with practice questions and a one-page cheat sheet, all tagged to the same NMC codes, so revision moves from learning a competency to testing it without leaving the topic. Learn the codes once and the pre-exam weeks become a checklist.
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PS1: Foundations of Psychiatry and Behaviour
Foundations of psychiatry for MBBS and NEET-PG: biopsychosocial model, ICD and DSM, stress, personality, learning and...
Read morePS3: Clinical Assessment and the Mental State Examination
Clinical assessment in psychiatry for MBBS and NEET-PG: history taking, mental state examination, delusions and...
Read morePS4: Substance Use Disorders
Substance use disorders for MBBS and NEET-PG: dependence, alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens, Wernicke-Korsakoff,...
Read morePS5: Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders
Schizophrenia for MBBS and NEET-PG: positive and negative symptoms, first-rank features, antipsychotics,...
Read morePS6: Depression and Depressive Disorders
Depression for MBBS and NEET-PG: core and biological symptoms, suicide risk, SSRIs and tricyclics, serotonin syndrome,...
Read morePS7: Bipolar and Mood Disorders
Bipolar disorder for MBBS and NEET-PG: mania and hypomania, bipolar I versus II, lithium monitoring and toxicity,...
Read morePS8: Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorders for MBBS and NEET-PG: generalised anxiety, panic disorder, phobias, social anxiety and OCD, with...
Read morePS9: Stress-Related Disorders
Stress-related disorders for MBBS and NEET-PG: acute stress reaction, PTSD and adjustment disorder, trauma-focused...
Read morePS10: Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders
Somatoform and dissociative disorders for MBBS and NEET-PG: somatisation, hypochondriasis, conversion, dissociative...
Read morePS11: Personality Disorders
Personality disorders for MBBS and NEET-PG: clusters A, B and C, antisocial and borderline patterns, dialectical...
Read morePS12: Psychosomatic and Eating Disorders
Psychosomatic and eating disorders for MBBS and NEET-PG: anorexia and bulimia nervosa, complications, refeeding...
Read morePS13: Psychosexual and Gender Identity Disorders
Psychosexual and gender identity disorders for MBBS and NEET-PG: sexual response cycle, sexual dysfunction, gender...
Read morePS14: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Child and adolescent psychiatry for MBBS and NEET-PG: ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, conduct disorder, enuresis and...
Read morePS15: Intellectual Disability
Intellectual disability for MBBS and NEET-PG: definition, intelligence quotient, grades of severity, Down and fragile...
Read morePS16: Geriatric Psychiatry
Geriatric psychiatry for MBBS and NEET-PG: delirium versus dementia, Alzheimer, vascular and Lewy body dementia,...
Read morePS17: Psychiatric Emergencies and Therapeutics
Psychiatric emergencies for MBBS and NEET-PG: suicide risk, agitation, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, serotonin...
Read morePS19: Community Psychiatry and Mental Health Law
Community psychiatry for MBBS and NEET-PG: National and District Mental Health Programmes, Mental Healthcare Act 2017,...
Read morePsychiatry questions
How many psychiatry chapters does MedNext cover?
The psychiatry subject hub covers 17 chapters, spanning clinical assessment, the psychotic and mood disorders, anxiety, substance use and psychiatric emergencies. Each chapter is mapped to its NMC competency codes, so coverage is visible rather than assumed.
Is the psychiatry content mapped to the NMC competency framework?
Yes. Every chapter, practice question and cheat sheet is tagged to an official NMC competency code, for example PS5.2 for the clinical features of psychotic disorders. This is the same framework that MBBS university exams, NEET PG and NExT draw from.
Which psychiatry topics carry the most exam weight?
The mental status examination, schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder and substance use disorders supply most viva and clinical questions. Psychiatric emergencies and therapeutics are reliably tested alongside the interview skills.
Does MedNext include psychiatry MCQs and revision material?
Each chapter is paired with practice questions and a one-page cheat sheet, all tagged to the same NMC codes as the reading, so you can move from learning a competency to testing and revising it within the same topic.
Can I preview the psychiatry content before paying?
Yes. You can preview the platform and read a free sample chapter after registering, then view plans when you are ready to decide.
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