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Institute of Psychiatry - COE, Kolkata at a glance
Welcome to Institute of Psychiatry - A Centre of Excellence, Kolkata !
Established in 1817, Institute of Psychiatry, Kolkata (IOP) is the third oldest surviving mental hospital in the country and has a glorious past of caring for persons with psychiatric illness for almost two centuries.
IOP has played a significant role in training mental health professionals from 1989, when it was designated as the training & research wing for Psychiatry, of the Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata. Thus IOP enjoys the hybrid status of being a mental hospital, which also functions as the general hospital psychiatry setup of a tertiary postgraduate medical training institute.
We hope that this interactive portal will be a vital link of communication between any individual who either needs any professional assistance for emotional or behavioural problems or is interested in mental health, on one hand, and our faculty and staff on the other.