Mental health is at the heart of overall wellbeing, yet it often remains overlooked in both personal and professional settings. To mark World Mental Health Day, Medflix brings a special event dedicated to exploring timely, practical, and impactful conversations on mental health in healthcare and beyond.

Through these sessions, experts will shed some light on the role of primary care in screening, the importance of early intervention, and understanding and preventing physician burnout. Through this, we aim to create awareness, share practical strategies, and encourage open dialogue, that will provide doctors with insights they can apply both in clinical practice and in their own lives.

World Mental Health Day

We are excited to present the first episode of our psychiatry quiz series, focusing on Co-morbid Depression & Diabetes: A Bidirectional Overview. This interactive quiz session will explore the complex relationship between depression and diabetes, highlighting how each condition influences the other and the implications for patient care. Our expert panel includes Dr. Himanshu Desai, a leading psychiatrist with extensive experience in neuropsychiatry and mental health research, and Dr. Pragnesh Vachharajani, a family physician and founder of HITCOIN, who brings a unique perspective on integrating healthcare and technology to improve patient outcomes. Join us for an engaging and educational experience that bridges psychiatry and primary care.

Co-morbid Depression & Diabetes: Bidirectional Overview

Join us for a highly interactive and immersive session as we delve into the complexities of Depression and Anxiety. Our expert speakers will take you on a journey into the world of psychiatry, demonstrating the latest assessment techniques, treatment strategies, and management approaches. Through real-life case studies, role-playing (in Hindi), and discussions (in English), you'll gain a deeper understanding of these common mental health conditions and how to effectively manage them. Don't miss this unique opportunity to experience the inner workings of psychiatry and take away practical insights to enhance your patient care

Depression and Anxiety in one hour Part II

Join us for a highly interactive and immersive session as we delve into the complexities of Depression and Anxiety. Our expert speakers will take you on a journey into the world of psychiatry, demonstrating the latest assessment techniques, treatment strategies, and management approaches. Through real-life case studies, role-playing, and Q&A sessions, you'll gain a deeper understanding of these common mental health conditions and how to effectively manage them. Don't miss this unique opportunity to experience the inner workings of psychiatry and take away practical insights to enhance your patient care.

Depression and Anxiety in one hour

On the occasion of World Mental Health Day, this pivotal session, "Burnout Amongst Doctors" sheds light on the pressing issue of physician burnout. With staggering statistics revealing the alarming prevalence of burnout among medical professionals, this discussion aims to confront the stigma surrounding mental health and foster a supportive community. Led by esteemed Psychiatrist Dr. Himanshu Desai, this session will explore the causes, consequences, and solutions to burnout, effective coping strategies, and institutional interventions for promoting physician well-being. Join us for an insightful conversation prioritizing doctor wellness and breaking the silence around mental health.

Burnout Amongst Doctors & Ways to Cope Effectively: World Mental Health Day Special

Obsessive-compulsive spectrum is an important area of discussion, encompassing various disorders across different diagnostic categories. These disorders exhibit fundamental obsessive-compulsive traits and can be categorised based on their primary symptoms: concerns related to the body, difficulties with impulse control, or neurological conditions. In this session, Top psychiatrist, Dr. Himanshu Desai will take us through some of the uncommon and bizarre disorders in the OCD spectrum like Hoarding disorder, Trichotillomania, Kleptomania, Body dysmorphia disorder, and so on.

Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

The obsessive-compulsive spectrum is an important concept that includes a number of disorders drawn from several diagnostic categories that share core obsessive-compulsive features. These disorders can be grouped by the focus of their symptoms such as bodily preoccupation, impulse control, or neurological disorders. Although the disorders are clearly different from one another, they have intriguing similarities in phenomenology, etiology, pathophysiology, patient characteristics, and treatment response. Medflix favourite, Dr. Himanshu Desai will review these concepts and several representative obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders including both compulsive and impulsive disorders.

A Basic Guide to Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

Anxiety disorders encompass more than just momentary anxiety or worry. People who suffer from anxiety disorders often experience persistent anxiety that may worsen with time. The symptoms may make it difficult to carry out regular tasks including relationships, employment, and schooling. It's critical for general practitioners to become knowledgeable about how to diagnose and treat patients with anxiety disorders. Renowned psychiatrist Dr. Himanshu Desai will discuss the many forms of anxiety disorders, their origins, risk factors, and treatment options in this session.

Types of Anxiety Disorders and its Approach for All Physicians

As advances in neuroscience have increased our understanding of the roles of brain circuitry, genetics, stress, and neuromodulators in the regulation of normal behaviour personality disorders has emerged. In this webinar, renowned psychiatrist Dr. Himanshu Desai will provide an overview on all kinds of personality disorders, how to diagnose borderline personality disorder, its consequences, and treatment options.

Neurobiological Basis of Personality Disorder

AUD can range from mild to severe (alcoholism). The cause of alcohol use disorder is not well understood; however, several factors are thought to contribute to its development. Personality disorders associated with the development of an alcohol use disorder include disinhibition and impulsivity-type disorders, as well as depressive and socialization-related disorders. Specialised in psychiatry, Dr. Himanshu Desai, joins us on Medflix to walk us through the management aspects & implications of AUD.

Diagnosing and Managing Alcohol Use Disorder: A Guide for Physicians

So here we are with the premiere episode of Medflix Journal Club. Dr. Desai is back with this amazing show and we have some mind boggling breakthroughs of medicine published in the month of March. Share this #MustAttendSession invite with all your friends and colleagues and stay tuned for this blockbuster live only on Medflix!

Changing Practice: March Round-up!

Antipsychotics are widely used medications for a variety of mental health disorders. While effective, these drugs do have many potential side effects. First-generation antipsychotics (FGAs) are associated with significant extrapyramidal side effects. Anticholinergic adverse effects like dry mouth, constipation, urinary retention are common with low potency dopamine receptor antagonists like chlorpromazine, thioridazine. They can also lower the seizure threshold, and chlorpromazine and thioridazine are more epileptogenic than others. In comparison to FGA's, the Second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) have a decreased risk of extrapyramidal side effects. SGAs are however associated with significant weight gain and the development of metabolic syndrome. Clozapine can cause clinically important agranulocytosis, leukopenia, and therefore requires monitoring of white blood cells and absolute neutrophil count. In order to effectively manage these potential adverse effects, Join Dr. Himanshu Desai LIVE as we illustrate how to safely prescribe Psychiatric Medications and go over all the do's & don'ts. 

Prescribing Psychiatric Medications : Do's & Don'ts

Psychiatric emergencies present as acute changes in behaviour that negatively affect a patient’s ability to function in their environment. Often such patients are found to be in a state of crisis in which their baseline coping mechanisms have been overwhelmed by real or perceived circumstances. Emergency physician needs to know how and where to prioritize their efforts to deal with such emergencies. Join us with Dr. Himanshu Desai as he talks about the most efficient way to manage such challenges in emergency departments.

Commonly Encountered Psychiatric Emergencies

Join Dr. Desai as he discusses the application of Lentiglobin as a treatment option for Sickle cell disease, the study was published in NEJM on the 17th of February, 2022. A major challenge in organ transplantation is the need for ABO blood group matching. Here we discuss an interesting story about creating a universal blood type for organ transplantation. ICD 11 has come into effect, watch our expert discuss in detail about the changes that need to be implemented with ICD 11.

Cutting Edge: Episode 16

Psychiatrists and primary care physicians frequently treat patients with comorbid mental health and chronic diseases. The inclusion of multiple providers into the patient care raises the opportunity for care continuity to be compromised. Join us for a live discussion with Dr. Himanshu Desai as he addresses the considerations a physician should undertake when treating comorbidities of a psychiatric patient.

Prescribing Psychiatric Medications- A must know for all physicians

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