We the department of psychiatry provides Teaching Learning training for both undergraduate and postgraduate under the guidelines of MCI. We provide services for both out and in patients in and around Puducherry. This department has 30 beds with well-specialized equipments like ECT, EEG, and Biofeedback for patient care. This department runs its service all day of the week. We also have an exclusive library as an innovative treatment method as a rehabilitation service for patients in the long stay.

Our department conducts awareness programmes on suicide prevention and mental health awareness to school students, college students, and the public every year. The department has well-trained and well-experienced faculty members, a clinical psychologist and a psychiatric social worker. The department conducts periodic guest lectures, public awareness lectures, and CME programmes on World Suicide Prevention Day and World Mental Health Day every year.

Our department encourages research activities among students and faculty. The department of psychiatry provides career guidance to students and provides emotional and psychological support for the students, staff and faculty. Our department also conducts communication skills workshops for newly joined interns and postgraduate students every year, participates in foundation course training for first-year MBBS students, and also does mental health assessments for all first-year MBBS students. 

The department offers excellent teaching-learning methods to students with video playbacks, problem-based learning, bedside teaching and clinical demonstrations. The department has an exclusive deaddiction ward “Raksha” for substance-dependent patients. The department provides novel outpatient and inpatient treatment for psychotic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders and substance use disorders.