FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
APRIL 2016
POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
PSYCHIATRY
PAPER III
PSY/APRIL/16/39/III
Time 3 hours
Max. Marks 100
Important instructions:
• Attempt all questions in order.
• Each question carries 10 marks.
• Read the question carefully and answer to the point neatly and legibly.
• Do not leave any blank pages between two answers.
• Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space.
• Answer all the parts of a single question together.
• Start the answer to a question on a fresh page or leave adequate space between two answers.
• Draw table/diagrams/flowcharts wherever appropriate.
Write short notes on:
1. Various stages of a planning cycle to organize research for
mental health services in a community.
10
2. Positive aspects as well as the possible shortcomings of the
new Mental Health Care Bill.
5+5
3. What is ethics?
Various principles of bioethics and its relevance
psychiatry.

4. What is testamentary capacity?
Various steps for assessment of competence of adult
patient with psychiatric illness.
2+8
5. Nocturnal enuresis.
How would you manage nocturnal enuresis in a 10 year
old girl?
4+6
6. Clinical features, etiology and management of Tourette's
disorder.

7. Define child sexual abuse.
POSCO Act (Protection of Children from Sexual Offence)
and its implication in psychiatry practice.

8. What is involuntary admission? Write various circumstances
and procedures of involuntary hospitalization under Mental
Health Act of India.
2+8
9. What is the difference between abuse and neglect?
What is elder abuse and its clinical implications?

10. What are neurodevelopmental disorders?
Status of pervasive developmental disorders in DSM-5.
3+7