As an adolescent, Dr Jai Ranjan Ram wanted to be a food critic and a travel guide. Unfortunately, his dreams of eating exotic food from all over the planet while he travelled remained unfulfilled and he chose a far less interesting career of Medicine instead. However, as a Psychiatrist with special interest in children and young people, he gets to relive the dreams and aspirations of young minds and feels blessed that he has, in his own very small way, enabled some troubled minds to gain freedom and blossom. Dr Jai Ranjan Ram, is an MD in Psychiatry from NIMHANS, Bangalore and also has MRCPsych from UK and CCST in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He has accreditation as a Specialist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in UK . He worked in United Kingdom for 11 years before returning to Kolkata and is now a Senior Consultant Psychiatrist attached to Apollo Gleneagles Hospital in Kolkata. His own organisation is Mental Health Foundation, which focuses on providing treatment for children with mental health problems in a multi-disciplinary setting. Dr Ram is a passionate believer in providing increased access for children and families with mental health problems and is actively involved in training professionals, teachers and carers on issues related to child and adolescent mental health. His presentation, Why Children Do Not Learn is a work in progress. When he started working with children and adolescents after coming back to Kolkata from England, the commonest complaint he heard from parents and teachers was that their wards ‘ do not study’. This made him to start thinking about what influences learning in young people and why they learn or do not learn? This presentation will try to unravel some of the mediators of learning and what is learning for.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 06:19:18 +0000