Cardiovascular system:
Acute myocardial infarction – etiopathogenesis, diagnosis, complications, treatment
Acute left ventricular failure – treatment
Cardiogenic shock – definition, treatment
Thrombolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction
Investigations for assessing coronary art. Disease
Pericarditis – causes
Pericardial effusion –
Cardiac tamponade – clinical features, treatment
Ace inhibitors
Beta-blockers
Calcium channel blockers
Verapamil
Acute rheumatic fever – etiopathogenesis, clinical features, treatment
Treatment of acute rheumatic fever* with carditis and its prognosis
Rheumatic mitral stenosis – etiopathogenesis, clinical features, complications
Atrial fibrillation – etiology, clinical features, complications, treatment
Jugular venous pressure – normal and abnormal jvp
BP – methods and mistakes of recording
S3 gallop
LV systolic function
Heart failure – precipitating factors,
Afterload reduction in CCF
Infective endocarditis – clinical features, investigations, treatment
Cyanotic congenital heart disease – general clinical features
Fallot’s tetrology
Patent ductus arteriosus – clinical features, treatment
Eisenmenger’s syndrome
Pulmonary Embolism-Acute—etiology, clinical features, prevention, management
Respiratory system:
Adult respiratory distress syndrome – causes, pathophysiology, treatment **
Pleural effusion ***– causes, clinical features, diagnosis
Treatment of tuberculous pleural effusion
Pleural effusion, hydropneumothorax, ** consolidation, cavity – clinical features
Pneumothorax – etiology, types, clinical features, treatment
Bronchial asthma – etiology, clinical features, treatment
Status asthmaticus (acute severe asthma) – treatment **
COPD - etiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, treatment
Pulmonary eosinophilia
Haemoptysis – with scanty clinico radiological findings
Central Nervous System:
Cerebro vascular accident (stroke)**- etiopathogenesis, treatment approach
Varieties of hemiplegia
Cerebral thrombosis-causes, diagnosis, treatment
Haemorrhagic stroke-etiology, clinical features, treatment
Transient ischaemic attack **
Pontine hemorrhage
Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy
Coma – approach, clinical examination, diagnosis, differential diagnosis
Parkinsonism – etiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, differential diagnosis, treatment
Gullain Barrie syndrome
Delirium
Signs of increased ICT
Vestibular neuronitis
Epilepsy – classification, clinical features, treatment
Petit mal epilepsy
Temporal lobe epilepsy
Psychomotor epilepsy
Meningitis – tuberculous meningitis
Migraine **
Chorea
Myasthenia gravis
Neuralgic amyotrophy
CT scan of head
Endocrine:
Corticosteroids – indications and side effects **
Addison’s disease ***
Cretinism ****
Myxoedema madness
Thyrotoxicosis – diagnosis and complications
Pretibial myxoedema
Hashimoto’s disease
Thyroid function tests
Dwarfism
Short stature
Diabetes mellitus – classification, etiopathogenesis of IDDM, NIDDM
Diabetic keto acidosis – etiology, treatment ****
Glycosylated hemoglobin
Newer insulins ***
Oral hypo glycemic drugs
Drug induced hypoglycemia
Juvenile diabetes
Causes of secondary diabetes
Insulinoma
Infections;
HIV infection – transmission, clinical features
AIDS – etiology, pathology, clinical features, opportunistic infections, treatment **
Enteric fever – etiology, clinical features, pathogenesis, investigations, complications, treatment *
Treatment of multi drug resistant enteric fever
Malaria – life history of malarial parasite; treatment of Plasmodium falciparum infection
Cerebral malaria – clinical features, diagnosis, treatment **
Pernicious malaria
Leprosy – polyneuritic leprosy;
Chemotherapy of leprosy
Amoebic dysentery
Extraintestinal amoebiasis
Bacillary dysentery – diagnosis, treatment
Bancroftian filariasis
Fever with eruption – differential diagnosis; recording temp… precautions to avoid mistakes
Rabies –immunization ***
Quinolones*
Cephalosporins
Antituberculous drugs
Side effects of drugs used in tuberculosis
Weil’s disease **
Candidiasis
Tetanus **
Plague – clinical features
Prolonged fever – causes,diagnostic approach in an adult
Rheumatology:
Rheumatoid arthritis - etiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, investigations, differential
diagnosis, treatment
Serological tests for rheumatoid arthritis
Disease modifying drugs in rheumatoid arthritis
Systemic lupus erythematosis – clinical features
Sero negative arthritis
Polymyalgia rheumatica
Polymyositis
Liver and Gastro intestinal tract:
Cirrhosis of liver – etiology, pathology, clinical features, complications, treatment **
Post-necrotic cirrhosis of liver -…
Hepatoma
Hepatic encephalopathy - etiology, clinical features, complications, treatment
Viral hepatitis – classification, clinical features, natural history, treatment
Prophylaxis of hepatitis B virus infection
Hepatitis C virus
Fulminant hepatic failure
Amoebic liver abscess
Splenomegaly
Hemolytic jaundice
Technique of liver biopsy
Lower intestinal bleeding
Irritable bowel syndrome
Nephrology:
Nephrotic syndrome – causes, investigations, treatment *****
Differentiate post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis from nephrotic syndrome
Acute renal failure – etiology, treatment **
Chronic renal failure – causes, etiopathogenesis, clinical features, treatment **
Acute pyelo nephritis – clinical features, treatment
Urinary tract infections – organisms, predisposing factors, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment
Medical treatment of prostatic hypertrophy
Proteinuria
Microscopic urinary sediments
Endocrine functions of kidney
Polyuria
General:
Hyperpyrexia – causes and treatment
Hazards of smoking
Obesity – causes, sequelae, investigations, treatment
Pellagra
Hypervitaminosis
Poisoning:
Organophosphorous poisoning – treatment ***
Kerosene poisoning
Cobra bite with envenomation
Hematology:
Acute leukemias
Acute myeloid leukemia - management
Chronic myeloid leukemia – laboratory diagnosis and complications **
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) - diagnosis, management
Blood transfusion – medical indications, contraindications, complications
Steps to avoid hazards of blood transfusion
Diseases transmitted through blood transfusion
Anemia – microcytic hypochromic anemia (iron deficiency anemia)– causes, clinical features,
investigations, treatment
Sideroblastic anemia
Hemolytic anemia – laboratory diagnosis
Aplastic anemia – laboratory diagnosis
Megaloblastic anemia
Hemophilia ***
Bleeding disorder – investigations
Oncology:
Lymphoma
Tumour markers
PAEDIATRICS:
Acute leukemias in childhood – clinical features, diagnosis, treatment
Tuberculous meningitis in children – etiopathogenesis, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment
Acute pyogenic meningitis - etiopathogenesis, clinical feat, diagnosis,
Complications, treatment***
Differential diagnosis of pyogenic, tuberculous, viral meningitis
Primary complex in children – etiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, complications, treatment
Mantoux test
Acute flaccid paralysis in children – causes, etiology, clinical features, differential diagnosis
Treatment of any one cause
Acute respiratory infection in children – causes, clinical features, treatment, prevention
Acute bronchiolitis
Cyanotic spells **
Factors affecting growth and development-*up to 2 years of age
Xerosis - *signs and symptoms of vit A deficiency in children
Phrynoderma
Vit A prophylaxis
Baby friendly hospital
Scabies in children **
Erb’s palsy
Convulsions in one-year-old febrile infant – causes, treatment
Neonatal convulsions
Febrile fits (febrile convulsions/seizures) ***
Apgar score in newborn
Umbilical sepsis
Preterm baby
Kwashiorkor – clinical features, treatment of one-year-old child with severe malnutrition
Dietary management of kwashiorkor
Marasmus
Mid arm circumference
Reye’s syndrome
Measles - complications
MMR vaccine
Oral polio vaccine
Newer vaccines
Universal immunization program (UIP)
Immunization schedule
Pulse polio
Common helminthic infections of childhood
Ascariasis
Down’s syndrome
Neonatal jaundice
Whooping cough
Oral rehydration therapy (ORT)**
Exclusive breast-feeding
Dental caries
AIDS in pediatrics
Learning disability
Temper tantrum
Idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome in a new born-cf,management
PSYCHIATRY:
Anxiety neurosis **
Delusions **
Obsession
Sociopath
ECT – indications, contraindications
Alcohol dependence – criteria
Alcohol and drug dependence
Drug addiction
Drug abuse
Catatonia
Tricyclic anti depressants
Fluoxetine
Sexual dysfunctions
Korsakoff’s psychosis
Wernicke’s encephalopathy
Delirium tremens **
Panic disorders
Types of mental retardation
Schizophrenia
Hebephrenic Schizophrenia
Manic-depressive psychosis
Hysterical psychoneurosis
Hysteria
Neurosis Vs psychosis
Anorexia nervosa
I.Q testing **
Depression
Drug induced depression
Loss of memory
