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Centre for Addiction Medicine, NIMHANS ECHO

NIMHANS ECHO: Democratizing knowledge for Quality care

Right Knowledge || Right Place || Right Time

75 out of 100 people with Addictive disorder do not have access to Care.

Lack of skilled capacity to provide quality care for Addictive disorders.

Addiction, a chronic treatable brain disorder, impact lives of person, family and society.

Our mission is to make trusted knowledge accessible to anyone, anywhere, and anytime.

Using case-based learning, collaborative care and telementoring, we seek to build a “community of practice” of highly- skilled “Addiction management” champions.

People with addictive disorders will receive the right care at the right place and at the right time by these champions.

Patient Centric Learning

Real Case discussion is the core of the VKN tele-ECHO

Best Practices
Share best practices combined with clinical wisdom to reduce disparity of care.

Digital Technology
Leveraging Smartphone app based multi point video conference

Accreditation
Earn Accreditation Certificate from NIMHANS Digital Academy-VKN

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6000+ champions are already part of the Knowledge Network and touching lives of many !!

“In the last 5 years, this force-multiplier effect has led to a virtual community of over 5000+ connected health providers, learners, educators being mentored on “best practices” by NIMHANS Hub, who could touch lives of >2,00,000 people from rural and underserved areas to provide Quality care in Addiction Mental health”

Real case discussion: Real life learning

>90% of Alcohol Use Disorders managed by the Doctors in the community

March 2014 till July 2023

Doctors

Counsellors & Educators

Nurses

Accredited champions

Enrolled

Accredited

Cases Co-managed

Lives Touched

Certificate ECHOs

Currently Running

Tobacco Cessation

Comprehensive Tobacco Cessation Certificate Course 5.0

Mental Health and Addiction (CALM IMA 2.0)

Case-assisted Learning and Mentoring: Integrated Mental Health and Addiction 2.0

Perinatal Mental Health

Perinatal Psychiatry Division

Learning by doing

All teach and learn

The tele-mentoring model, focuses on case based learning in which participants discuss anonymized cases with our experts as well as with the peers, during weekly ECHO session.

Accredited Certificate Course

Our Funders

We are very grateful for the support and partnership of our funders.

Programme for Tobacco Control and Drug Addiction

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Popular Queries

What is NIMHANS ECHO

NIMHANS ECHO is an innovative capacity building program that uses a HUB and SPOKE knowledge-sharing network, led by expert teams from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in Bangalore, to provide training and tele-mentoring to healthcare professionals working in remote and rural areas of India.

What is Hub and Spoke model?

In the Hub and Spoke model of NIMHANS ECHO, NIMHANS serves as the central “hub” of expertise, while various healthcare providers and professionals in remote and rural areas are the “spokes.” The model works as follows:

Hub: NIMHANS, being a renowned mental health and neurosciences institution, acts as the central hub of knowledge and expertise. The hub consists of a multidisciplinary team of specialists, including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals.
Spokes: The spokes are healthcare providers and professionals located in geographically distant and underserved areas. These may include primary care physicians, nurses, counselors, or other healthcare workers who encounter mental health issues in their daily practice but may lack specialized training in mental health.

What happens in a typical NIMHANS tele-ECHO session.

Each NIMHANS tele-ECHO session consists of spoke-led presentations of anonymized patient cases and discussion of the cases whereby the peers as well as hub experts provide advice on the diagnosis and management. This is followed by a brief didactic on a mental health-related topic. .

Is this same as " zoom webinar", "online courses" etc.

The core component of this Knowledge Sharing model is weekly “case discussion” during tele-ECHO session with clinical experts or mentors. This continuous loop of learning, mentoring and peer support is what makes ECHO unique, with a long-lasting impact far beyond that of a webinar, e-learning course or telemedicine care

What is "All teach-All learn" in NIMHANS ECHO

We continued to learn from each other.Collaborative Learning: The hub and spoke participants engage in a collaborative learning process, fostering knowledge exchange, skill development, and the building of a supportive professional network. The spokes gain expertise in managing mental health conditions, reducing the need for patient referrals to specialized centers and improving access to quality mental healthcare in remote areas

Will i get a Certificate?

Each NIMHANS ECHO runs like a course as recognised by Board of Studies . These are Professional Developmental Programme. Each spoke will have access to a mobile e-learning platform which allows learners to access learning materials and relevant questions anytime and anywhere.

You may like to see Details of Certificate courses here.

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Champions love NIMHANS ECHO

★★★★★ 5/5

The Certificate Course in Basics of Addiction management was an excellent course. This was very useful for me as a counselor to counsel clients with addiction. The brief interventions, the assessment tools and management of clients with addiction is very useful. And also knowing when to refer to specialists if necessary. Thank you so much for facilitating a positive environment full of energy, making the course look easy and super fun though it was online. The group discussions helped in looking at the different perspectives of other counsellors which always was an added advantage in the counselling sessions.

I am glad to provide my feedback about the NIMHANS. My overall experience to date has been amazing, and the faculties are knowledgeable and experienced. Addiction management course has provided me with a number of opportunities to grow and explore my skills. The team is SUPERB 👌👌👌

Excellent course and team!! This course has given me so much confidence in diagnosing, treating and managing patients with mental illness. The course is so well structured and spread out over 6 months, covering all major topics required to manage patients in out-patient basis/ community setting. Teaching and case discussions are excellent- all my doubts and concepts are cleared, staff is dedicated to answer all questions any time by emails outside of class hours, class notes are excellent - I use them a lot in my daily practice esp for reviewing drug dosages etc.....

The CCBoAM ECHO Certificate course offered by VKN and centre for Addiction Medicine NIMHANS is must do for mental health professionals who want to enhance their professional skills pertaining to addiction counseling. It's a 6 month intensive course with weekly online learning sessions and case discussions. The course content is very comprehensive and starts from basics of various types of substances and their impact to counseling skills, intervention models and therapeutic techniques. It's a complete learner centric program where the aim and goal of the faculty lies in everyone's professional growth and learning......

I am humbled by the amount of effort put in by the team members at nimhans to make this course so useful in increasing our knowledge and spreading the much needed awareness about mental health in the community . They have worked hard at equipping us with the necessary tools so that we may provide evidence based treatment for mental health problems in our community ..

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