Stress management is a serious issue

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Udaipur.Stress management is a serious issue in today’s world. Realizing its impacts on the day to day life of the youth, Geetanjali Medical College and Hospital organized a basic workshop on stress management for the MBBS students. A crowd of 250 students in addition to the faculty members and the organizers attended this workshop. This workshop was organized by the Department of Psychiatry in coordination with the medical education unit of GMCH. It was held under the leadership of Dr, F.S Mehta (Dean, GMCH), Dr. D.M. Mathur (professor and head of dept. of psychiatry, GMCH) and Dr. Manjinder Kaur (professor of dept. of physiology and coordinator of medical education unit).
This workshop was conducted by Dr. Mahendra P. Sharma (professor and head of dept. of clinical psychology, NIMHANS, Banglore). The basic aim of this workshop was to sensitize the students towards using meditation as a tool to handle various stressful conditions which they are and will face in their day to day life. They were told about the advantages and techniques of meditation which would finally lead to their distressful and relaxed life.