Detailed Syllabus For The Post Of Assistant Professor In General Surgery In Medical Education

MODULE 1 : ANATOMY AND BASIC PRINCIPLES. [ 20 marks ]

1. Congenital malformations
2. Haemorrhage and blood transfusion
3. Stem cells 
4. Surgical site infections
5. Anatomy of stomach
6. Anatomy of Liver and Couinaud liver segments
7. Metabolic response to injury
8. Wound healing
9. Suture materials
10. Burns
11. Anatomy of Anal canal 
12. Necrotising soft tissue infections.
13. Tissue engineering and regeneration
14. Principles of diathermy
15. mmuno histochemistry
16. Anatomy of breast and its lymphatic drainage
17. Gas gangrene.
18. Mycetoma and typhoid
19. Compartment syndrome
20. Limitations of minimal access surgery.
21. Shock and its management
22. Viral infections relavant to surgery
23. Tuberculosis
24. Principles of anastomoses
25. Diagnostic molecular pathology
26. Surgical research
27. Antimicrobial treatment of surgical infections
28. Nutritional assessment
29. Anaesthesia and pain relief 
30. Principles of advanced energy devices.
31. Surgical ethics , Informed consent
32. Prevention of surgical infections
33. Critical care in surgical patients
34. Parenteral nutrition
35. Postoperative care
36. Wound healing and factors influencing
37. Management of cancer
38. Patient safety and surgeon 
39. Diagnostic imaging
40. Pre operative care and high risk surgical patient 
41. Surgical audit
42. Filariasis 
43. Principles of microscopic diagnosis
44. Fluid and electrolytes management
45. Day care surgery
46. Evidence based surgery 
47. Hydatid disease.
48. Health care events and patient safety
49. Hazards of imaging
50. Mediators of metabolic response to injury

 MODULE 2 : HEAD AND NECK. [ 20 marks ]

1. Vascular neuro surgery
2. Cleft lip and palate
3. Carcinoma tongue
4. Thyrotoxicosis
5.  Primary hyper parathyroidism
6. Head truma
7. Carcinoma cheek
8. Benign thyroid swellings
9. Parotid neoplasms
10. Branchial cyst
11. Maxillo fascial trauma 
12.  Hydrocephalus
13. Premalignant conditions of oral cavity.
14. Differentiated thyroid carcinomas.
15. Secondary hyper parathyroidism.
16. Crush syndrome / Triage
17. Oral malignant melanoma.
18. Intra cranial infections.
19. Medullary carcinoma thyroid.
20.  Parathyroid carcinoma.
21. Brain tumours.
22. Carcinoma Lip
23. Anaplastic carcinoma and lymphoma thyroid
24. Tertiary hyper parathyroidism
25. Secondary toxic goitres. 
26. Brain stem death
27. Carcinoma alveolus
28. Thyroiditis and its management
29. Hypoparathyroidism
30. Chemodectoma
31. Tracheostomy and other emergency air way measures
32. Submandibular salivary gland diseases
33. Investigations of thyroid swellings
34. Recurrent hyperparathyroidism
35. Thyroglossal cysts and fistulas 
36. Vocal fold palsy 
37. Carcinoma floor of mouth
38. M E N Syndrome
39. Solitary thyroid nodule
40. Neck nodes,Lymphoma,Causes of lymphadenitis
41. Primary tumours of neck
42. Thyroid imaging
43. Subdural haemorrhage ,Extradural haemorrhage
44. Modified radical neckdissection[MRND]
45. Papillary carcinoma thyroid
46. Inflammatory conditions of neck
47. Follicular carcinoma thyroid 
48. S O N D [Supra omohyoid neck dissection ]
49. Infections of salivary gland
50. Glasgow coma scale score.

MODULE 3 : THORAX,BREAST AND VASCULAR SYSTEM [20 marks ]

1. Benign breast diseases
2. Chest trauma
3. Acute limb ischaemia
4. Chronic venous hypertension
5. Primary lymphedema
6. Early Breast carcinoma
7. Aneurysms
8. Investigations of venous disorders
9. Flail chest
10. Deep vein thrombosis
11. Skin tumours
12. Vascular lesions..Haemangiomas,A V malformations
13. Locally advanced breast carcinoma[LABC] 
14. Cardio pulmonary bypass.
15. Primary tumours of mediastinum.
16. Thoracic injuries.
17. Duct ectasia,Paget’s disease of breast 
18. Phylloid tumours of breast
19. Mammography 
20. Investigations of an arterial occlussive disease
21. Blast injuries
22. nvestigations of a breast lump.
23. Diabetic foot and ischaemic ulcers of leg.
24. Diaphragmatic hernias.
25. Aortic dissection.
26. Advanced breast carcinoma
27. Cardiac tamponade
28. Critical limb ischaemia
29. Congenital venous anomalies
30. Secondary lymphedema
31. Breast reconstruction
32. Varicose veins
33. Thrombo angitis obliterates
34. Vascular grafts
35. Carcinoma of male breast
36. Thoracic outlet syndrome
37. Pleural effusion
38. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
39. Fibroadenoma,Breast abscess,A N D I
40. Management of varicose veins
41. Gynaecomastia 
42. Aortic aneurysm
43. Pneumothorax
44. Bronchopleural fistula 
45. Prognostic factors of carcinoma breast
46. Sarcoma of breast
47. V A T S
48. A V Malformations
49. Pericardial effusion
50. Retrosternal goitres

MODULE 4 : ABDOMEN AND G I T. [ 20 marks ]

1. Inguinal hernia
2. Acute pancreatitis
3. Management of intestinal obstruction
4. Abdominal tuberculosis
5. Anorectal abscess
6. Oesophageal disorders
7. Gall stones
8. Haemorrhoids
9. Blunt abdominal trauma
10. Retroperitoneal tumours 
11. Phaeochromocytoma
12. Neuro endocrine tumours of stomach n small bowel
13. Intussusception
14. Sigmoid volvulus / Prolapse rectum.
15. Perineal hernias.
16. Carcinoma colon.
17. Mesenteric cyst.
18. Femoral and spigelian hernias.
19. Chronic calcific pancreatitis 
20. Empyema gall bladder
21. Carcinoma gall bladder / Choledochal cyst
22. G I S T
23. Epigastric and lumbar hernias
24. Fissure in ano
25. Pilonidal sinus
26. Carcinoma rectum and anal canal
27. Pancreatic pseudocysts
28. Calculous cholecystitis 
29. Abdominal wall hernias
30. Splenic trauma.
31. Insulinoma,carcinoma pancreas 
32. Acute mesenteric ischaemia
33. Adreno cortical carcinoma
34. Ventral hernias
35. Splenomegaly,Hyper splenism, Hemolytic anaemia
36. Gastrinoma ,Gastrc lymphomas 
37. Peritonitis,Acute appendicitis 
38. F A P , Ulcerative colitis
39. Liver tumours 
40. Hiatus hernias,Motility disorders of oesophagus
41. Intraperitoneal abscess
42. Carcinoma oesophagus 
43. Haematemesis and Malena 
44. Liver trauma 
45. Inflammatory bowel disease
46. Tumours of peritoneum
47. Acute intestinal obstruction
48. Retroperitoneal tumours and conditions
49. G E R D ,Gastritis, Helicobacter pylori 
50. Liver abscess,Hepatitis

MODULE 5 : URINARY SYSTEM AND RECENT ADVANCES [20 marks ]

1. Kidney tumours
2. Testicular swellings
3. Robotic surgery
4. Liver transplantation
5. Endoscopic ultrasound[E U S ]
6. Carcinoma prostate
7. Torsion testes 
8. Lap.hernia surgery …T A P
9. Small bowel transplantation 
10. Thoracoscopy 
11. N O T E S [Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery ] 
12. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
13. Carcinoma urinary bladder 
14. B P H [Benign prostatic hyperplasia ] 
15. Hydrocele /Orchitis. 
16. Laparoscopic surgery and its techniques. 
17. Damage control surgery.
18. Carcinoma penis.
19. Prostatitis
20. Varicocele
21. ingle incision laparoscopic surgery[SILS]
22. Laparoscopic anterior resection
23. Epidydimal cyst 
24. Nephrolithiasis and its management 
25. Phimosis and paraphimosis.
26. T E P 
27. Laparoscopic appendicectomy 
28. Renal cell carcinoma 
29. Urethral injury
30. Hypospadias.
31. Tissue expansion,Reconstructive surgery 
32. Grafts and flaps 
33. Laparoscopic hemicolectomy
34. Renal tuberculosis 
35. Neoplasms of urinary bladder
36. T A R 
37. Bladder trauma
38. Urinary incontinence 
39. Capsule endoscopy
40. Ectopic testes,Undescended testes
41. Vascularised composite allografting / graft rejection 
42. P E T Scan, M R Angiogram 
43. Stapler haemorrhoidectomy
44. Renal trauma 
45. Nephroblastoma
46. Bariatric and metabolic surgery
47. Liver transplantation ,Organ donation
48. Haematuria ,Bladder stones
49. Ureterocele,Ectopic kidney,Horseshoe kidney 
50. Tuberculosis of urinary tract 

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. There is no undertaking that all the topics above may be covered in the question paper.