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Background and Objectives: Psychiatry lectures & clinical posting are the only learning experience ofpsychiatry for Medical Graduates. Only interns attend their compulsory psychiatry posting. The aim is tomake Interns competent to elicit & write proper history of MDD and able to describe different componentsof history taking, diagnostic criteria, to demonstrate communication skills.Methods: It was a Prospective Interventional Study done in 45 Interns posted consecutively in Psychiatry.On Day1, Interns were asked to take and write history of MDD patient and evaluated on Checklist forhistory taking (10 components), SMCQ (15) and Mini-CEX. Then Interns were taught about MDD by CBL,SGL and Role Play. On Day 7, they were again evaluated on Mini-CEX. On term ending, they were againevaluated as per Day1. Feedback of Interns and faculties were taken. Appropriate Statistical Tests were usedusing SPSS Version 16.Results: On Checklist for history taking of MDD apart from Negative History and Mental StatusExamination, Interns’ skills improved significantly. Mean score on SMCQ got doubled from 6±0.83 to12±0.83. On Mini-CEX, apart from clinical judgement, counselling skills and overall clinical competence,Interns improved from unsatisfactory to superior level. Feedback was positive on most of the componentsof study but few were satisfied completely with their history writing & communication skills and diagnosingability. Faculties’ perceptions were very encouraging.Conclusion: Teaching of MDD case history taking was well taken & perceived by interns. Knowledge aboutMDD & competency to take history and identifying patients of MDD improved satisfactorily