Kerala PSC Assistant Insurance medical officer exam dates are out. The commission will conduct the Assistant Insurance Medical officer written test for the Insurance Medical Services on January 22, 2021, Friday. Successful candidates will get appointed in the Insurance Medical Services department in the scale of pay of Rs. 45,800 -89,000. Here we are discussing the syllabus of the Kerala PSC Assistant insurance Medical Officer in detail.
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Kerala PSC Assistant Insurance Medical Officer Syllabus 2020
The syllabus for the Assistant insurance Medical officer written exam is:
Assistant Insurance Medical Officer: Human Anatomy
- General Anatomy
- General Embryology
- Upper Limb
- Lower Limb
- Thorax
- Head and Neck
- Brain and Spinal Cord
- Abdomen, Pelvis and Perineum
- Genetics
Biochemistry
- Proteins
- Carbohydrates
- Lipids
- Metabolism of Lipids
- Metabolism of Amino acids
- Haemoglobin
- Vitamins
- Mineral Metabolism
- Maintenance of Homeostasis
- Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology
- Plasma Proteins and Immunoglobulins
- Biochemistry of Cancer
- Clinical Chemistry
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Human Physiology including Bio-Physics
- Haematology
- Cardiovascular System
- Respiratory System
- Gastrointestinal System
- Renal System
- Skin and Temperature regulation
- Nerve – muscle physiology
- Nervous System
- Special Senses
- Audition
- Endocrinology
- Physiology of Reproduction
Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
- Forensic Medicine
- Definition, diagnosis and certification (as per MCCD rules), somatic, molecular and brain death. Sudden natural deaths, suspended animation. Changes after death.
- Inquest procedures
- Courts in India and their powers.
- Medical certificates and medico-legal reports.
- Medico-legal autopsy and exhumation
- Mechanical injuries or wounds
- Asphyxial deaths
- Medico-legal aspects of deaths due to starvation-forced feeding.
- Human sexual function
- Infant and childhood deaths
- Biological fluids
- Forensic psychiatry
- Medical jurisprudence
- Forensic toxicology
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Assistant Insurance Officer Syllabus: Microbiology
- General microbiology
- Systematic bacteriology
- Virology
- Immunology
- Parasitology
- Mycology
Pathology
- Cell injury
- Infectious diseases
- Circulatory disturbances
- Growth disturbances
- Miscellaneous disorders
- Haematopathology
- Cardiovascular pathology
- Respiratory pathology
- Renal and urinary tract pathology
- Pathology of the gastrointestinal tract
- Liver and Biliary tract pathology
- Lymphoreticular system.
- Reproductive system.
- Histopathology
- Endocrine Pathology
- Neuropathology
- Dermato-pathology
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Pharmacology
- General pharmacology and basic concepts of clinical pharmacology
- Autonomic nervous system
- Autacoids and related drug
- Central nervous system
- Cardiovascular system
- Drugs affecting blood and blood formation
- Respiratory system
- GIT
- Drugs acting on the Endocrine system
- Chemotherapy
- Toxicology
- Miscellaneous
- National health programmes
- Infective/ Parasitic conditions
- Medical emergencies
Community Medicine
- Concept of health and disease
- Social and behavioural sciences
- Environment and Health
- Health promotion and education/communication for behavioural change (Information, education, communication)
Opthalmology
- Acute conjunctivitis, Trachoma, Allergic conjunctivitis, Pingencula, pterygium, Xerosis/ bigot spots, Dry eye, Angular conjunctivitis, neonatal conjunctivitis, subconj haemorrhage, D/D of conjunctival and limbal nodule
Chronic conjunctivitis, Dry eye, membraneous conjunctivitis, Inclusion conjunctivitis, Corneal Inflammations: Corneal ulcers-bacterial, fungal, viral, Mooren’s ulcer, Vitamindeficiency and keratomalacia, exposure keratitis, neurolytic keratitis, corneal blindness, eye banking, eye donation, keratoplasty, arcus senilis, corneal oedema, deep/interstitial keratitis, degenerations and dystrophies, an overview of keratorefractive surgery. - Scleritis, episcleritis
- Iridocyclitis, Panophthalmitis, Endophthalmitis
Systemic associations of uveitis - Photocoagulation
- Retinal vascular diseases
- Central retinal artery occlusion
- Awareness of amblyopia
- Dacryocystitis – congenital, acute, chronic, epiphora
- Ectropion entropion, trichiasis, ptosis, Iagophthalmos, symblepharon, blepharitis, Chalazion, refractive error, myopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism, presbyopia, aphakia/pseudophakia, Anisometropia, an overview of keratorefractive surgery.
- Chemical injuries, open globe injuries, closed globe injuries and first aid treatment including sympathetic injuries.
- Siderosis bulbi, Chalcosis, medico legal aspects.
- Definition and types of blindness. Causes of blindness
- Promotion of eye donation
- NPCB, Vision 2020
- Eye camps
- Symptomatic disturbances of vision, an overview of recent advances in ophthalmology
- Lasers in Ophthalmology
- Enucleation – Indication, technique
- Eye and systemic diseases including AIDS
- Causes of sudden / partial / painless dimension of vision
- Ocular malignancy – retinoblastoma and malignant melanoma of the choroid
- Pharmacology
- Chronic side effects of systemic medication, local anaesthetics, viscoelastic, steroid and
- NSAIDs
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Otorhinolaryngology
- Ear
- Nose and paranasal sinuses
- Throat
Medicine and its allied Specialities
- Nutrition and nutritional disorders
- Fluid and electrolyte balance
- Disturbance of body temperature
- Infections
- Immunology
- Primary Immune deficiency disorders
- Genetics
- Environmental and occupational problems
- Medical disorders in pregnancy
- CVS
- GI system
- Respiratory system
- Haematology
- Renal medicine
- Central nervous system
- Geriatrics
- Critical care
- Rheumatology
- Endocrine disease
- Pain and principles of palliative care
- Clinical pharmacy and therapeutics
Kerala PSC Assistant Insurance Medical Officer Syllabus: Psychiatry
- Classification of psychiatric disorders
- Aetiological factors in psychiatric disorders
- Clinical interview and mental state examination
- Organic brain syndrome
- Substance abuse
- Bipolar disorders
- Depressive disorders
- Schizophrenia
- The major manifestation of psychiatric illness
- Treatments used in psychiatric illness
- Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders
- Sleep disorders
- Legal aspects of psychiatry
Kerala PSC Assistant Insurance Medical Officer Syllabus: Radiology
- Production of X-rays
- Biological changes
- Skeletal radiology chest and Mediastinum
- Gastrointestinal system
- Hepatobiliary system
- Genitourinary system
- Neuroimaging modalities
- Emergency radiology
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Dermatology
- Infections of skin
- Eczematous dermatitis
- Bullous skin lesion collagen disorder
- Pigmentary disturbances
- Maculopapular
- Squamous lesion
- Neoplastic lesions
- Lesions of skin appendages
- Gastrogenic disorders
- Leprosy and national leprosy control programmes
Surgery and it’s Allied Specialities
Principles of Surgery, genetics, history of surgery, surgical ethics
- Trauma
- Pre-operative and post-operative care
- Surgical sepsis – specific infection, Nosocomial infection, antibiotic policy
- Immunology and organ transplantation, HIV and surgeon, Hepatitis B
- Principles of imaging techniques
- Suture materials and anastomosis
- Skin and soft tissues
- Thyroid and parathyroid thyroglossal cyst and fistula Breast
- Genitourinary system
Orthopaedics
- Traumatology
- Definition of a fracture and types of fracture and general principles of management of the fracture
- Complications of fracture – open fractures and pathological fracture
- Fracture clavicle, fracture neck of humerus and shoulder dislocation
- Fracture humans (Shaft) and supracondylar fracture
- Intercondylar fracture and Olecranon fracture
- Elbow dislocation and forearm fracture
- Monteggia fracture and Galeazzi’s fracture
- Colle’s fracture and fracture scaphoid
- Fracture spine and traumatic paraplegia
- Fracture pelvis and hip fracture – fracture of the femur
- Hip dislocation and fracture shaft of the femur
- Meniscus tear and fracture patella
- Leg fracture
- Ankle injuries – Pott’s fracture
- Hand injuries
- Extensor mechanism injuries of the knee
- Fracture of tarsal bones
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- Cold orthopaedics
- CTEV and flat foot
- CDH
- Torticollis, congenital pseudoarthrosis of the tibia and arthrogryposis multiplex congenital osteomyelitis septic arthritis tuberculosis – spine, hip, knee, elbow, wrist and other sites
- Perth’s disease and slipped upper femoral epiphysis
- Rickets and osteomalacia
- Rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis
- Intervertebral disc prolapse
- Scoliosis and spondylothesis
- Bone, tumour, osteochondroma, simple bone cyst, aneurysmal bone cyst and enchondroma, giant cell tumour, osteosarcoma and Ewing’s sarcoma, Chondrosarcoma, multiple myeloma, metastatic bone diseases and osteogenesis imperfecta
- Nerve injuries – Radial nerve, ulnar nerve, sciatic nerve, amputations and osteoarthritis hip, knee, cerebral palsy
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Introduction to physical medicine and rehabilitation disability process and progression of disabilities concept of Impairment/disability and hard cap
- Principles of physical therapy – various modalities and therapeutic exercises
- Pain management principles
- Principles of occupational therapy its application in the rehabilitation of various disabilities
- Principles of prosthetics and rehabilitation aid their application in the rehabilitation of disabilities
- Disability evaluation – principles people with disabilities Act – 1995
- Principles of rehabilitation of people with disabilities: To understand the basic principles of disability conclusion and for certification purposes
- To get exposed to the potentials of social-vocation rehabilitation of the various describing
conditions in the light of the 1995 Act people with disabilities (equal opportunities etc) Act 1995 - To get oriented to the basic principles of community-based rehabilitation of people with disabilities
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Radiotherapy
- Cancer Epidemiology and possible etiological factors, screening for cancer
- Principles of cancer chemotherapy and chemotherapeutic agents used in the management of cancer
- Hormone treatment in cancer
- Principles of radiation oncology, radioactive sources – Teletherapy, Brachial therapy and nuclear medicine
- Methods of radiotherapy and recent advances
- Common malignancies, diagnosis and treatment
Anaesthesiology
- Introduction – the scope of Anaesthesiology
- Pre-anaesthetic check-up premedication
- General anaesthesia – Basal anaesthesia triads of anaesthesia Inhalational agents
- Intravenous anaesthetic agents
- Regional analgesia – subarachnoid and epidural analgesia, other techniques of regional analgesia and agents used.
- Types of equipment in anaesthesia and methods of oxygen therapy
- Intravenous fluid therapy, intraoperative monitoring
- The complication in anaesthesia and postoperative period
- Cardiopulmonary and cerebral resuscitation, basic cardiac life support (BCLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS)
- Methods of pain relief
Paediatric
- Infectious diseases
- Gastrointestinal tract and liver disorder
- Connective tissue disorders
- Malignancies in children
- Behavioural problems in children
- National programmes – IMNCI, RCH3, NRHM, Vitamin A, Iodine deficiency, IDSP, ARI, ADD, AFP & PPI
- Common chromosomal disorders and genetic counselling
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Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Pregnancy – Diagnosis, Clinical features, differential diagnosis, relevant tests and the principles underlying the tests
- Antenatal care: objectives of antenatal care routine antenatal check-up, Assessment of period of gestation, obstetric examination, general examination, other system examination
- Clinical monitoring of maternal and fetal well being, detect the abnormality
- Common problems in Pregnancy – Oedema, Pruritis, heartburn, piles, varicose veins, clothing and footwear, exercise, sex, hygiene, nutrition, rest, drug in pregnancy
- Drugs: Immunisation, drug prescription relevant blood examination, urine examination and interpretation of the results and physiological changes in pregnancy
- Ultrasound examination
- Fetal surveillance
- Normal Labour
- Physiology of onset of labor, fetal skull and pelvis
- Mechanism of labour
- Labour monitoring partogram, Labour analgesia
- Induction of labor (various methods of induction – merits and demerits)
- Acceleration of labor and drugs used in labor
- Delivery: stages of labour, management of first of labour
- Management of the second stage of labour (vaginal delivery with an episiotomy)
- Management of the third stage of labor:
- Active management of the third stage of labor
- Prevention of PPH, Management of PPH
- Other complications of the third stage of labor and management
- Abnormal labor: Hypertonic contractions, hypotonic contractions and incoordinate uterine action
CPD, obstructed labour, Caesarean section (indications, complications), Vaginal delivery after caesarean - Abnormal presentations and management: Occipito posterior position, Breech presentation, transverse lie, brow/face presentation
- Abortions: Types, etiopathology, investigations and management
- Recurrent pregnancy loss: causes, investigations and management
- Ectopic pregnancy: etiopathology, early diagnosis, late diagnosis, clinical features, differential diagnosis and principles of management (conservative, medical and surgical)
- Trophoblastic diseases: etiopathology, classification, clinical features, diagnosis, management, long term follow up and complications
- Hyperemesis gravidarum: definition, etiopathology, clinical features advice and drug therapy
- Abnormal puerperium: cause clinical presentation investigations and management
- Abnormal pregnancy: Multiple pregnancies
- Intrauterine death
- PROM (Premature rupture of membranes)
- Preterm labor
- Post date
- IUGR
- Elderly primi, grand multipara, Rh-negative, Gynaecological disorders complicating pregnancy
- Fetus and newborn:
- Fetal distress: definition, diagnosis and management neonatal resuscitation, care of the newborn, the examination of the newborn and identifying congenital abnormalities, jaundice in newborn
- Breastfeeding
- Contraception: various methods and devices, selection of patients, counselling of the Couples, follow up, side effects, complications, and failure rates
- Medical termination of pregnancy: MTP Act, Legal and ethical aspects, methods, complications and management
- Operative obstetrics
- Indication and steps of the procedure of episiotomy
- Vacuum extraction, forceps delivery
- Instrumental evacuation
- Caesarean section
- Assisted breech delivery, breech extraction
- External cephalic version, internal podalic version
- Cervical encirclage extra amniotic instillation and manual removal of placenta
- Ultrasound MRI in obstetrics: diagnostic and interventional
- Fetomaternal medicine: Screening for congenital abnormalities, blood tests (maternal and
fetal) Amniotic fluid analysis, fetal tissue biopsy - Medical disorders in pregnancy:
- Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
- Heart disease complicating pregnancy
- Anaemia in pregnancy
- Diabetes in pregnancy
- UTI, hepatitis, TB, chest disease complicating pregnancy
- Veneral disease, infections, HIV complicating pregnancy
- Thyroid disorders, immunological disorders like SLE, ACLA, and thrombophilia complicating pregnancy
- Jaundice in pregnancy Haemorrhage and coagulation disorders in obstetrics and immunology in pregnancy
- Dummy pelvis, Mannequins resuscitation of the newborn
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Kerala PSC Assistant Insurance Medical Officer Syllabus: Gynaecology
- Normal menstrual cycle – physiology of menstruation
- Abnormal menstruation – definition, classification, clinical features and principles of investigations, diagnosis and management
- Amenorrhoea: Definition, classification, causes, investigations and management
- Dysfunctional uterine bleeding and postmenopausal bleeding: Definition, causes, investigations and management
- Hormonal therapy: when to give, when not to give, type of hormones with dosage, duration of hormonal therapy, complications and contraindications for hormonal therapy
- Infertility: Types, definition, causes, counselling, the examination of the couple and essential investigations, ART: various methods of assisted reproductive techniques, setting up of ART lab
- Genital injuries including fistulae: Causes, diagnosis, clinical features, and principles of management and prevention
- Genital infections: STDs, PID, HIV infection and AIDS, genital TB – aetiopathology, diagnosis and principles of management
- Neoplasms of genital tract – Benign and malignant, aetiopathology, clinical feature, diagnosis, principles of management and cancer screening and preventive aspects
- Abnormal vaginal discharge: causes, clinical examination, diagnosis, investigation and management.
- Counselling regarding prevention of STD’s
- Endometriosis: aetiopathology, classification, clinical features, diagnosis and management, contraception
- Operative gynaecology: Indications, complications of D&C, cervical biopsy
- Medical termination of pregnancy, evacuation of incomplete Abortion tubal ligation,
- IUCD insertion
- Abnormal hysterectomy
- Vaginal hysterectomy, sling procedures
- Ovarian tumours
- Radical procedure for malignancy
- Correction of enterocele, diagnosis and operation for vault prolapse
- Endoscopy in gynaecological practice
- Laparoscopy: Principles, indications, instrumentation, procedure, complication, the scope of laparoscopy in gynaecological practices
- Hysteroscopy: Principles, indications, instrumentation, procedure, steps in present gynaecological practices and complications.
- Colposcopy: Principles instrument, procedure
- Endocrinology
- Postoperative management:
- Routine management of postoperative patient like IV fluids, drugs, antibiotics, ambulation, nutrition
- Management of fever, skin wound complications, complications like burst abdomen, intraperitoneal bleeding and intraperitoneal collections, instruments, specimens etc.
- Acute abdomen
- Adolescent medicine (Gynaecology)
- Analgesia
- Urological problems
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Family Welfare
- Applied anatomy of mechanical methods for prevention of conception In female – Barrier contraception, female condom, IUCD, tubectomy etc.
- In male – Condom, vasectomy (NSV) etc
- Physiology, endocrine and regulation of reproduction in the female. The safe period rhythm method of contraception, the principle of use of oral contraceptives.
- Pharmacology
- Paediatrics: Problems of child health in relation to the large family: organization of pediatric services, nutritional problems of mother and child, childhood diseases due to overcrowding.
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