Departments > psychiatry > FacultiesFaculty Profile - Dr. Smitha Ramadas

• 21 years of experience as Psychiatrist
• 19 years of experience in Kerala Government Medical Education service, as Assistant Professor (cadre)

Additional qualifications/training

• FAIMER (Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research) ) fellowship from PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in Coimbatore ,2017 batch, affiliated to FAIMER Philadelphia Completed with Distinction
• ME (Advanced Course in Medical education) from NMC Nodal Centre Kottayam, Kerala,2020 batch
• Underwent 10 days National Teacher training program in NTTC (National Teacher Training centre) JIPMER, Pondicherry in 2008
• Training course in Bioethics conducted by KUHS & UNESCO chair in Bioethics in 2016
• Underwent short training in Child and adolescent Psychiatry in NIMHNAS in 2010

Research Training

• Intensive Training in Qualitative research methodology led by Dr.Amol Dongre, Professor in Community Medicine and Medical Education
• Brief course in psychiatric research from April 2021 to October 2021,conducted by IPS South Zone
• 10 days Intensive Training on research Methods in Community Mental Health conducted by Sangath an NGO in October 2005,led by Dr Vikram Patel

Membership positions in the institution

• Institutional Ethics Committee member
• Medical Education Unit

Organizational experience

• Executive member, IPS South Zone
• Executive member, Indian Association of Social Psychiatry
• Secretary of Thrissur branch of Indian Psychiatric Society from 2009 to 2012
• Executive member of Kerala State Branch of IPS from 2015 to 2019
• Convenor, Task force on Learning disability, Kerala branch of Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS) in 2015
• Member, Editorial Team, Kerala Journal of Psychiatry
• Life Fellow, Indian Psychiatric Society
• Life Member, Indian Association of Social Psychiatry
• Fellow, Indian Association of child and Adolescent Mental Health
• President, IPS, Thrissur Branch in 2018
• Organising Chairperson of SIPSCON 2019 (Annual conference of Kerala State Branch of IPS
• Member, (ACHPE)Academy of health professionals education, India

• First prize in International Essay competition on "Post-natal depression" conducted by CAREIF (Centre for Applied Research and Evaluation International Foundation) an International Mental Health Charity, in 2011
• Second best Prize for Poster presentation in IMPACT 2019, National conference of Medical Editors held by Medical Journal Armed Forces India and Indian Association of Medical Journal Editors held at AFMC, Pune, in 2019.
• Best E poster award at the National CME On Psychiatry Education and Faculty Training, supported by Department of Psychiatry, St. John's Medical College, Minds United for Health Sciences and Humanity Trust and Indian Teachers of Psychiatry Forum held on January 2022.

• Citations - 165
• h-index - 7
• i10-index - 4
• Chapters in the Book: Antony George, Smitha Ramadas :Ethics in Medical Research. In : MKC Nair, Remadevi S, Anish TS, Ajithkumar ,Leena ML eds. An Introduction to Research Methodology, Kerala University of Health Sciences, Thrissur 680596, Kerala