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Topic-Wise Weight Age for Medical PG Entrance exams

How to Prepare Physiology for PG Entrance Exams

Topic-Wise Weight Age for Medical PG Entrance exams

  1. General Physiology
  • Experts shared that one of the most important topics in Physiology section is General Physiology. Since individual system physiology is also covered in medicine but General Physiology is not.
  • Aspirants must emphasise on topics like cellular basics like Diffusion and transport mechanisms etc under General Physiology
  1. Nerve- Muscle Physiology
  • Most important topic in Physiology as per the experts is Nerve Muscle Physiology.
  • Toppers highlighted that at least one question is asked from topics like the generation of Action Potential and Types of fibres under Nerve Muscle Physiology
  • Do not confuse Nerve muscle physiology with entire neuro physiology. You do not need to study the entire neuro physiology.
  • Generation of action potentials, gamma fibres, alpha fibres, muscle spindle physiology are all very important topics.
  • Under Muscle spindle physiology you must not miss out on basic anatomical constituents and innervation.
  • Knee jerk, withdrawal reflex, reciprocal inhibition, size principal, plasticity of muscle fibres are all very important.
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  • Topics like α-γ co- activation fibres, working of static fibres and dynamic fibres, Rheobase, Chronnaxiae and mechanism by which heat generation takes place, etc must be thoroughly prepared.
  1. Exercise Physiology
  • Experts highlighted that Exercise Physiology also carries high weight age in Medical PG entrance. This is a topic that most people tend to miss.
  1. Other important topics in Neuro Physiology are are Memory, Learning and Speech
  • Under Sleep Study, questions have been asked from EEG since the last 4 years consecutively
  • Aspirants need to know how to compare EOG, EMG and EEG for normal awake state, deep sleep and REM sleep.
  1. CVS
  • Conduction Physiology, Cardiac Cycle
  1. RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
  • Hypoxia, Spirometry, Oxygen Dissociation Curve, Altitude Physiology
  1. RENAL 
  • Nephron Physiology
  1. ENDOCRINE
  • Hormones , Reproductive Physiology
Also read:  How to study all 19 subjects for NEET PG.Scoring Order of first year subjectsAlso read:Most effective study plan for PG entrance exams.
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