PSM Important High-Yield Topics For NEET PG 2026

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NEET PG exam preparations require a strategy that allows students to maximise their scores. PrepLadder knows just the right strategy - high-yield topics. 

This article touches on various important high-yield topics for PSM that will ensure a more fruitful result in NEET PG 2026. Besides NEET PG, we have also discussed important FMGE and INI-CET exam topics.

Important Topics For NEET PG Preparations 

Check out the NEET PG important topics subject wise in the table below.

Also read our blogs on high-yield topics (subject-wise) for NEET PG Preparation

Communicable Diseases

• Chicken Pox and Small Pox
• Plague
• Kala Azar
• Polio
• Dengue
• Mumps and Pertussis
• Diphtheria
• Respiratory Infections, Measles, Rubella, Influenza and Meningitis 
• Yellow Fever and KFD
• Tuberculosis
• Japanese Encephalitis
• Cholera
• Soil Transmitted Helminthic Infections
• Diarrhea
• Rickettsial Diseases
• Leptospirosis
• Lymphatic Filariasis
• Acute Respiratory Infection
• Rabies
• Malaria Epidemiology
• Hepatitis
• HIV / AIDS & STD's 
• Tetanus
• Ebola, Nipah and Zika Virus
• Infectious Disease Epidemiology
• Typhoid

National Health Programs

• Child & Adolescent Health Initiatives
• Leprosy and National Leprosy Eradication Program
• National Health Mission, RMNCH+N, Maternal Health Initiatives
• National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme 
• NVBDCP
• Polio End Game Eradication Strategy & National Polio Surveillance Program
• NACP
• National Programme For Prevention and Control of Non Communicable Diseases
• National Program For Control of Blindness and Visual Impairment
• Other Health Programs & Mental Health
• Health Education and Communication

Health Planning and Management

• Health Planning and Planning Cycle
• Health Management Techniques & Stock Management
• Health Planning Committees NITI-Aayog

Health Care of The Community in India

• Health Care System In India
• History of Public Health Public Health Days

International Health

Allied Health Disciplines

• Occupational Health
• Disaster Management
• ESI Act, Factory Act and Nrega Act
• Genetics
• Biomedical Waste Management

Biostatistics

• Measures of Dispersion and Location
• Types of Variables Scales of Measurement
• Measures of Central Tendency
• Test of Statistical Significance
• Types of Errors
• Types of Distribution
• Graphical Representation of Data
• Sampling and Probability

Epidemiology

• Cohort Study
• Experimental Studies, Randomized and Non-Randomized Control-Trials
• Cross-Sectional, Ecological Study Designs
• Case Control Study
• Descriptive Epidemiology
• Advanced Epidemiology/Evidence Based Medicine Systematic Review & Meta Analysis
• Errors in Epidemiology/Bias Confounders and Hills Criteria
• Need, Classification & Approach to Study Designs
• Definitions and Tools of Epidemiology

Concept of Health and Disease

• Concept of Disease
• Concept of Health and Well Being
• Levels of Prevention
• Disease Control, Elimination and Eradication of Disease
• Health Indicators
• Monitoring, Evaluation and Surveillance

Vaccines and Cold Chain

• Open Vial Policy VVM Shake Test
• Cold Chain
• National Immunization & Schedule Delayed Immunization/Mission Indradhanush
• Vaccines Classification, Contraindications, Adverse Events, Strains

Screening of Diseases

• Properties of Screening Test
• Screening
• Advanced Concepts of Screening

Demography and Health

• Demography Indicators
• Sources of Health Information
• Fertility Indicators

Family Planning and Contraceptives

• Physiological Methods And Permanent Methods
• Intra Uterine Devices
• Hormonal Contraceptives
• National Family Planning Welfare Program
• Family Planning Definition Concept
• Family Planning Methods And Classification Of Contraceptives Barrier Methods

Preventive Medicine in Obstetrics, Pediatrics and Geriatrics

• Preventive Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Preventive Pediatrics Child Health Indicators
• Growth and Development/Breast Feeding
• Preventive Geriatrics

Nutrition and Health

• Food Adulteration and Food Fortification
• Minerals
• Micronutrients : Vitamins
• Nutrition Health Programmes and Food Logos
• Nutrition, Macronutrients and Sources
• Recommended Dietary Allowance

Social Sciences and Health

• Sociology
• Family and Socioeconomic Scales
• Health Economics
• Social Paediatrics

Environment and Health

• Water Purifying Methods
• Waste Disposal
• Noise, Light, Housing & Radiation
• Air and Ventilation
• Water : Introduction
• Entomology

High-Yield Topics For PSM

You can expect around 25 questions from PSM in the NEET PG exam. To make sure that you answer all the questions with maximum accuracy, read the high-yield PSM important topics listed below. 

Epidemiology

Health and Disease

Vaccines and Cold Chain

History of Medicine

• Theories of disease causation

• Names of scientists

• Names of epidemiologists

Screening of Disease 

Communicable Disease

Non-Communicable Disease

National Health Programs, Policies & Legislations

Social Science

Health Economics

Health Care System 

Health Planning & Management

International Health 

Biomedical Waste Management

Occupational Health 

Genetics and Health

Mental Health 

Biostatistics

Also Read : Screening of Disease - NEET PG PSM

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Previous Year Questions From PSM

To get a broader idea of the type of NEET PG 2024 expected questions from PSM take a look below. You can also check out all the PYQs along with the answers from different subjects on the PrepLadder's NEET PG app for android device and Best NEET PG app for iOS device . 

Q.1 Brightness of point source of light is measured through SI unit of 

A. Cadela 

B. Lux

C. Lumen

D. Lambert

Answer: Candela

Q.2 There is a history of pharyngitis in a 4yr old child. Swab was taken and sent for culture. Swab material should be discarded in which colour bag

A. Yellow bag

B. Red bag

C. White container 

D. Blue box

Answer: Yellow bag

Q.3 A school going cousin of a 23 year old woman, living in the same house, contracts varicella. The woman was advised to take a varicella antibody test that was found negative. What is your best segment?

A. Women is susceptible to zoster 

B. Women is susceptible to chickenpox

C. Women is immune to chickenpox

D. Women is immune to zoster

Answer: Women is immune to chickenpox

Q.4 Maize diet consumption is associated with which vitamin deficiency

A. Pyridoxine (B6)

B. Thiamine (B1)

C. Niacin (B3)

D. Cyanocobalamin (B12)

Answer: Niacin

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