Combined Medical Services Examination Details

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Combined Medical Services Examination conducted by UPSC for recruitment to the services and posts of Assistant Medical Officer in railways, Indian Ordinance Factories Health Service, Junior scale posts in central health services, etc.

Key dates

Notification Date: 5 March, 2016
Last Date to Apply: 1 April, 2016
CMS Exam Date: 12 June, 2016

Eligibility
You should have passed the written and practical parts of the final MBBS examination.

Age limit:
32 years as on 1 January of year of exam.
Age relaxation for reserved category is applicable as per the norms.

Syllabus
(a) General Ability (30 Questions)

(i) Indian Society, Heritage & Culture, Polity, Economy, Human Development Indices and the Development Programmes
(ii) Natural Resources, their distribution, exploitation, conservation and related issues
(iii) Basic concepts of Ecology and Environment and their impact on health and economy
(iv) Impact of changing demographic trends on health, environment and society
(v) Indian Agriculture, Industry, Trade, Transportation and Service Sectors
(vi) Natural and man made disasters and their management
(vii) Food adulteration, Food processing, food distribution, food storage and their relevance to public health
(viii) Recent trends in Science and Technology

(b) General Medicine (70 Questions)

(General Medicine including Cardiology, Neurology, Dermatology and Psychiatry)

(i) Cardiology
(ii) Respiratory diseases
(iii) Gastro-intestinal
(iv) Genito-Urinary
(v) Neurology
(vi) Hematology
(vii) Endocrinology
(viii) Metabolic disorders
(ix) Infections/Communicable Diseases (Virus, Rickets, Bacterial, Spirochetal, Protozoan, Metazoan, Fungus)
(x) Nutrition/Growth
(xi) Diseases of the skin (Dermatology)
(xii) Musculoskelatal System
(xiii) Psychiatry
(xiv) General