Anoop Omanakuttan Pillai

Currently working in Department of Psychiatry , Govt Medical College , Kollam. Under deputation from the Department of Health Services.

• Involved in the management of psychiatry OP catering to an average of 150 patients in a day.
• Management of inpatients in a 500-bed inpatient facility exclusively for psychiatry.
• Involved in the risk assessment and management of acute patients in the emergency department on a rotation duty basis.
• Involved in the risk assessment and management of the patients in the highly secure forensic psychiatry unit.
• Involved in performing Modified Electro-convulsive therapy on a regular basis.
• Regularly conducting awareness classes on topics like mental health,substance abuse and stress management among the staffs of the hospital,nursing students and undergraduate medical students.
• Involved in undergraduate training of medical students on a regular basis.
• Maintaining accurate paperwork and records to benefit other healthcare professionals, ensuring holistic patient care.
• Providing emotional support to patients, employing active listening skills to ensure patients felt heard and their concerns understood.
• Promoting health education and self-care practices, maximising treatment efficacy and mitigating future risk factors.

Resident doctor in the Department of Old age psychiatry- NIMHANS Bangalore, an institute of national importance - 1 month experience.

Resident Doctor in Behavioral Psychology, NIMHANS Bangalore, an institute of national importance - 1 month experience.

Resident Doctor in child psychiatry at IMHANS, Kozhikode, an autonomous institute - 2 months experience.

• My responsibilities included attending both outpatient and inpatient mental health services - offering treatment and support to young people,adults and the elderly experiencing mental illness or mental health conditions.
• On average, 80 to 100 outpatients attended outpatient services daily. Govt TD Medical College Alappuzha is one of the pioneer medical colleges in Kerala state of India.
• Worked as part of a multidisciplinary team,attending team meetings and contributing to the management of patients.
• Effective Risk Assessment and management of acutely ill patients in emergency setting.
• Involved in Teaching House Officers and MBBS students
• Consultation liaison Psychiatry and attending psychiatry consultations from various other departments and offering treatment.
• Attended Covid 19 related Psychiatry services ,
• Attended daily departmental teaching programs and trainings.
• Practice of evidence based psychiatry.
• Involved in increasing awareness through programs for general public.
• Assessment of burn out and stress among health professionals ,care givers and offering mental health
• Supervised and mentored postgraduate psychiatry core trainee doctors and post Graduate residents from other Departments like Medicine and Neurology during their postings in Psychiatry and gave constructive feedback to maximise their performance .

• Postgraduate training at a premier Government institute catering to a large population,including neighbouring districts in the state and also from the nearby state of Tamil Nadu
• Trained in the psychiatry department having an OP strength of 130 patients daily and a bed strength of 100 IP patients,including separate sections for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, De-Addiction.
• Worked in Govt. Mental Health Centre, Thiruvananthapuram as part of training with OP strength of 200 patients, and IP strength of 500 patients
• Underwent rotations in General Adult Psychiatry,De-Addiction,Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,Geriatric psychiatry,and the Suicide prevention clinic
• Worked as first on call doctor for Emergency services in Psychiatry.Conducted risk assessment and management of cases on a regular basis.
  
• Worked under supervision for psychiatric consultations at Sree Chithra Institute and Regional Cancer Centre,which are institutes of national importance
• Involved in the team administrating psychological first aid to population severely affected by natural disaster ( Kerala flood; 2018 )and visited various places affected by the flood and provided mental health support and care.
  
• Stress reduction activities for various Medical professionals , Police and caregivers.
  
• Underwent specialized training in Neurology , Psychology, Neurosurgery and Radio- diagnosis in Government medical College, Thiruvananthapuram during the training period.
• Worked at Mental Health Centre, Peroorkada, Thiruvananthapuram ,an exclusive 900 bed psychiatry hospital in Kerala.
• Worked in inpatient and home based Palliative Care settings for 1 month at Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences(TIPS) run by Pallium India under Hon Padmasree DR M.R.Rajagopal
• Worked in telemedicine settings.
• Adminiistered modified ECTs.
• Attended workshop in Research methodology.
• Part of the team of delivering mental health care to patients admitted with Covid -19 , including initial screening and appropriate psychological or pharmacological management,as the hospital served as a major teritary care service provider for Covid-19 patients in the state.

• My job responsibilities include.
• Observing government policies and implementation of the same.
• Attending to administrative, financial, professional and supervisory duties being the head of the institution.
• Providing outpatient medical care to people of all age groups.
• Delivering primary care services including prevention,identification and management of various health conditions including mental health conditions.
• Attending immunization camps for children and conducting immunization programs in hospital.
• Providing rehabilitation services for chronically ill patients, mentally challenged persons and disabled persons.
• Carrying out home visits and delivering services at home as part of palliative care programs and district mental health programs.
• Providing outpatient services to pregnant ladies and addressing their physical and mental health problems.
• Arranging and review of Investigations.
• Working as a team comprising of a medical officer , staff nurse ,pharmacist, Health Inspector, Junior Health Inspector and public health nurse.
• Making decisions considering the invaluable opinions of all the members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Attending to health related local self- government meetings, as well as Block level and District level monthly conferences and review meetings.
• Organizing and chairing monthly institutional meetings and conducting sectoral meetings.
• Making necessary arrangements to ensure the smooth functioning of institution when staff go on leave of absence
• Sub center / Field visits and implementation of immunization programs , public health programs and all national /state health programs.
  
• Planning and preparing Health Projects under local self -government and acting as Ex Officio Joint Secretary in Health to Local self -Government .
  • Overall in charge of supervision including the work of office staff, nursing staff, pharmacist ,other paramedical and field staff ,a multidisciplinary team of 12 to 15 people.
  • Condemnation of unserviceable articles as per rules.
• Medicolegal responsibilities- attending to medicolegal cases and writing reports
• Conducting training programs for various staff of the institution.
• Audit of the services and improvement of services.
• Ensuring awareness of health programs for the general public.
  
• Management of change
  I was involved in planning and implementation of various projects for the improvement of health care delivery .Examples include.
  
• Worked in association with engineering professionals of local self Government Ezhukone and National Rural Health Mission officials and developed an infrastructure development master plan and the plan got approved.The new plan aimed a better multidisciplinary patient care delivery.
  
• Developed better infrastructure facilities for subcenters.
  
• Improved delivery of patient care services.
  
• Audit of availability of drugs was done with more efficiency with the help of staffs concerned and timely purchase of
  medicines was done with the financial assistance of local self government as per govt rules to reduce out of pocket expenditure of the patients.
  
• Practices of segregation and collection of wastes ,periodic review of disinfection methods, transportation, handling and disposal of waste both within and outside the institution ,availability and use of protective devices and safety
  precautions, assessment of knowledge, attitude and skills of various staffs towards it.
  
• Audit of the need of the said services was done with the help of field staffs and strengthened the delivery of the services,ensured better involvement of care takers, promoted community level care more than institutional level care.
  

• 2-year experience in the Department of Medicine, London Missionary Society Boys' Brigade hospital, Kundara,Kollam district, Kerala state.
  
• My job responsibilities included
  
• Providing outpatient medical care to people of all age groups attending general medicine speciality.
  
• Arranging and review of Investigations.
  
• Doing Admission procedures for inpatients.
• Attending emergency medicine patients coming to casualty and emergency medicine.
• Active care of the patients admitted in Intensive care units.
  Attending ward rounds of inpatients.
• Consultation liaison medicine and attending consultations from various departments..