Brief introduction of postgraduate program of psychiatry and mental hygiene in Guizhou Medical University.

The Department of Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene of Guizhou Medical University first merged with the Department of Neurology on 1956, and became independent on 1985, offering independent psychiatric outpatient service. Ward officially opened 1996. Neurology department began to recruit graduate students from 1997, and began to recruit professional degree graduate students independently from 20 12.

Psychiatry is the two disciplines under the first-class discipline of clinical medicine. To study the clinical symptoms, etiology, pathogenesis, development, treatment and prevention of various mental diseases; Mental health is to study the social prevention and treatment of various mental diseases, further explore and promote people's mental health, improve individuals' ability to bear pressure and adapt to society, and reduce and prevent various psychological obstacles and behavioral problems.

At present, there are teachers 10 in this discipline, including postdoctoral 1 person, doctoral 1 person and 7 masters. 3 On-the-job tutor. At present, 20 people have graduated and 8 people are studying. Postgraduates mainly graduated from psychology departments of domestic tertiary hospitals and other state organs and institutions. The main research direction is the pathogenesis of depression, schizophrenia and psychosomatic medical disorders (the relationship between gastrointestinal dysfunction and emotional disorders). More than 50 papers have been published in this discipline, including 3 papers published in SCI. Obtained many national natural science funds and provincial scientific research funds. The research funding is about 6,543,800 yuan.