Syllabus for Associate Professor / Reader in Surgery
DETAILED SYLLABUS FOR THE POST OF ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / READER IN SURGERY {GOVERNMENT HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGES}
1.SHOCK, HAEMORRHAGE, BLOOD TRANSFUSION ( 10 MARKS)
a. Definition of shock ( 1 mark)
b. Classification of shock( 2 marks)
c. Classification of Haemorrhage ( 1 mark)
d. Resuscitation of Haemorrhagic shock( 2 marks)
e. Indication for blood transfusion ( 1 mark)
f. Blood products (2 marks)
g. Complications of blood transfusion( 1mark)
2. WOUND HEALING ( 5 marks)
a. Types of wound healing ( 1 mark)
b. Degloving injuries( 1 mark)
c. Acute compartment syndrome( 1 mark)
d. Necrotising fasciitis( 1 mark)
e. Contractures( 1 mark)
3. Surgical infections ( 5 marks)
a. Surgical site infection classification( 1 mark)
b. Treatment of abcess( 2 marks)
c. Paronychia and management( 2 marks)
4. Trauma ( 10 marks)
a. Airway assessment and management( 2marks)
b. Technique of CPCR ( 2 marks)
c. Pneumothorax and management( 2 marks)
d. FAST( 2 marks)
e. TRIAGE ( 2 marks)
5. Aetiology,Diagnosis and management of Deep Vein thrombosis (5 marks)
6. Fluid resuscitation in burns ( 2 marks)
7. Fundamentals principles of skin grafting ( 2 marks)
8. Complications of burns( 1 mark)
9. Tumours of salivary gland( 10 marks)
a. Classification (2 marks)
b. Diagnosis of salivary gland neoplasm( 2 marks)
c. Types of surgical procedures for parotidectomy( 2 marks)
d. Complications of Parotidectomy( 2 marks)
e. Management of facial nerve palsy( 2 marks)
10.Thyroid swelling ( 15 marks)
a. Define goitre and classify types of goitres( 2 marks)
b. Indications for surgery and preoperative assessment of thyroid swelling ( 5 marks)
c. Classification of thyroid malignancies( 2 marks)
d. Complications of thyroidectomy ( 1 mark)
e. Postoperative follow up of a differentiated thyroid malignancy( 5 marks)
11.Breast ( 15 marks)
a. Diagnosis , assessment and management of early, locally advanced and advanced carcinoma breast (5 marks)
b. Surgical options for operable breast cancer ( 2 marks)
c. Benign breast diseases(3 marks)
d. Screening mammogram( 2 marks)
e. Breast self examination ( 3 marks)
12.Diagnosis and management of acute appendicitis ( 5 marks)
13.Complicatgions of Inguinal hernia( 2 marks)
14.Clinical management of Haemorrhoids and management of haemorrhoids (3 marks)
15. Classification,Investigations, evaluation and management of fistula in ano ( 5 marks)
16.Causes of acute right hypochondrial pain and management of acute cholecystitis( 5 marks)
NOTE: – It may be noted that apart from the topics detailed above, questions from other topics prescribed for the educational .qualification of the post may also appear in the question paper
