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