Must know
Exercise
Spots
Family case
Grand viva + Tray
Exercise –
Graph- frequency table,
bar diagram (simple, compound, component)
pie chart
histogram
line diagram
Demographic- Crude birth rate
Crude death rate
General fertility rate
Couple protection rate
Still birth rate
Mortality – Infant mortality rate
Neonatal mortality rate
Perinatal mortality rate
Maternal mortality ratio
Maternal mortality ratio
Under 5 mortality rate
Epidemiological exercises- Incidence rate
Prevalance rate (point and period)
Malaria- Annual blood examination rate
Annual parasite incidence
Slide positivity rate
Slide falciparum rate
Spots-
Immunization-
Vaccine- All National immunization schedule vaccine and rabies and vit A
- When given
- Dose
- Route
- Site
- Complication
VVM
Vaccine carrier
Hub cutter
Ice pack
AEFI kit
Contraception- (composition, mode of action, advantage, disadvantage,
contraindication)
Condom (Nirodh)
CuT 375
Mala N
Chaaya
Antara
Nutrition – (calorie, protein (write with unit), rich in)
Rice
Maize
Egg Banana
Pulses
Rajmah
Entomology- (life cycle, disease transmitted, control, breeding place,
(eggs, larva, adult characteristic for mosquito), flight range)
Anopheles
Aedes
Culex
Housefly
Sandfly
Itchmite
Misc-
MCH card
ORS
Albendazole tablet
Shakir’s tape
IFA tablet
Calcium tablet
Family Case-
important to keep in mind that it is a clinicosocial case and not clinical
case. They want you to have a basic knowledge of the medicine not
complete medicine treatment.
Remember to check their bpl card, ayushman card and opd cards and
immunization card
Ask how do they store food raw and cooked and about rodents presence.
ANC
PNC
Infant
TB
HTN
DM
Underweight child
Malnourished child
Must know things about family case viva-
- Type of socioeconomic scales
- Who is head of family
- Who all can be index case and why chose this particular case as index
- Importance of address
- Type of family (nuclear, joint, 3 generation, broken, problem)
- Different age group definition
- SES importance
- Three criteria of overcrowding
- Disadvantage of overcrowding
- Ventilation criteria
- Why ventilation important
- How will you check for adequate lighting
- Advantages of adequate lighting
- Classification of diseases with respect to water
- Dietary survey
Different methods (names of at least 5)
How calculated each food product calorie
Total calorie requirement according to age and work how many
calorie deficient and dietary advice about how will the case
overcome it
- Advices are very important (they ask at each level (individual, family
and community level advices given by you with respect to every
case)), be vigilant about the lacuna in your family house.
- National programs related to the case
Grand viva-
Though question can be asked from anywhere from whole psm, but
sometimes (luck dependent) they ask you what have you read and come
so at least any three topics be thoroughly prepared with it.
Sometimes they ask what have you learnt in community medicine and
what are the things you saw in the field so be prepared with few points.
Know answers to your theory exam question
Some things which you must must know-
Immunization schedule
BMW (colour of dustbin and waste going into them)
Definition-
health
Epidemiology
Idea about-
One health
Tray-
All the things written for spotting except the entomology spots will be
kept in a tray infront of examiners.
Important points about practical exam-
Each component of practical exam has different marks so try to score
maximum in each part.
Spotters and tray have lot of topics in common so it will fetch you marks.
