Combined Medical Services Exam Syllabus
Syllabus for Paper 1
(a) General Ability
- Indian Society, Heritage & Culture, Polity, Economy, Human Development Indices and the Development Programmes;
- Natural Resources, their distribution, exploitation, conservation and related issues;
- Basic concepts of Ecology and Environment and their impact on health and economy;
- Impact of changing demographic trends on health, environment and society;
- Indian Agriculture, Industry, Trade, Transportation and Service Sectors;
- Natural and man made disasters and their management;
- Food adulteration, Food processing, food distribution, food storage and their relevance to public health;
- Recent trends in Science and Technology
(b) General Medicine-including Cardiology, Neurology, Dermatology and Psychiatry)
- Cardiology
- Respiratory diseases
- Gastro-intestinal
- Genito-Urinary
- Neurology
- Hematology
- Endocrinology
- Metabolic disorders
- Infections/Communicable Diseases (Virus, Rickets, Bacterial, Spirochetal, Protozoan, Metazoan, Fungus
- Nutrition/Growth
- Diseases of the skin (Dermatology)
- Musculoskelatal System
- Psychiatry
- General
(c) Paediatrics
Syllabus for Papar 2
(a) Surgery including ENT, Opthalmology, Traumatology and Orthopaedics
1. General Surgery
- Wounds
- Infections
- Tumours
- Lymphatic
- Blood vessels
- Cysts/sinuses
- Head and neck
- Breast
- Alimentary tract (Oesophagus, Stomach, Intestines, Anus, Developmental)
- Liver, Bile, Pancreas
- Spleen
- Peritoneum
- Abdominal wall
- Abdominal injuries
2. Urological Surgery
3. Neuro Surgery
4. Otorhinolaryngology E.N.T.
5. Thoracic surgery
6. Orthopedic surgery
7. Ophthalmology
8. Anesthesiology
9. Traumatology
(b) Gynaecology & Obstrtricks
1. Obstrtrick
- Ante-natal conditions
- Intra-natal conditions
- Post-natal conditions
- Management of normal labours or complicated labour
2. Gynaecology
- Questions on applied anatomy
- Questions on applied physiology of menstruation and fertilization
- Questions on infections in genital tract
- Questions on neoplasma in the genital tract
- Questions on displacement of the uterus
3. Family Planning
- Conventional contraceptives
- U.D. and oral pills
- Operative procedure, sterilization and organization of programmes in the urban and rural surroundings
- Medical Termination of Pregnancy
(c) Preventive Social and Community Medicine
- Social and Community Medicine
- Concept of Health, Disease and Preventive Medicine
- Health Administration and Planning
- General Epidemiology
- Demography and Health Statistics
- Communicable Diseases
- Environmental Health
- Nutrition and Health
- Non-communicable diseases
- Occupational Health
- Genetics and Health
- International Health
- Medical Sociology and Health Education
- Maternal and Child Health
- National Programs
