Important Topics for Last-Minute Revision of General Medicine

The last few days before any exam are extremely crucial. During this time, most aspirants focus their efforts on revising the entire syllabus and ensuring that they retain all the information they have gathered during their preparation.

PrepLadder believes that with the nearing exam date for NEET SS 2024, focused study is the only way to get the most fruitful results. Therefore, we have decided to provide the aspirants with some much-needed value addition in the form of important must-read topics for last-minute revision of General Medicine. 

Read on to find out the General Medicine topics that must not be missed before the exam. 

Important Topics for General Medicine

Here are the most important General Medicine topics that you need to know before the NEET SS exam. Dr. Dilip Kumar has carefully compiled these topics after analyzing the exam trend and questions asked in the recent past.

Once you have all the important General Medicine topics listed, create a study strategy by dividing the topics according to the time needed to prepare each one. You can either start with the shortest topic and build momentum or finish off the toughest topics first. A clear strategy will make your preparation twice as more effective.

You can also watch this video for details on all these important topics.

Cardiovascular

• Cardiomyopathy
• Pericardial Disorders
• ACS and evaluation of chest pain
• Clinical Cardiology and Basic echo
• Rx of Valvular HD
• Hypertension Rx/ Drug effects

Neurology

• Stroke and related interventions
• Epilepsy
• Movement disorders
• Myasthenia and muscular dystrophies
• Demyelinating disorders

Pulmonary

• PNA 
• ILD
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea
• Basic principles/CT 
• Vascular Disorders

Endocrine

• Obesity/ energy metabolism
• Adrenals
• Diabetes
• Posterior Pituitary 
• Parathyroid and Calcium 

Hematology 

• Hb disorders
• Hemolytic anemias
• Bone marrow failure
• Transfusion medicine
• Hypercoagulability

Gastro / Liver

• IBD - especially Rx
• Esophageal manometry 
• Malabsorption 
• Viral Hepatitis
• DILI

Nephrology 

• Acid Base/ electrolytes
• Dialysis - Basis at least 
• Transplant - especially infections/ rejections
• Cystic kidney disease
• Tubulointerstitial disorders

Rheumatology 

• Arthritidis evaluation 
• SLE - especially Rx options
• Pregnancy and rheumatologic disease 
• Vasculitis - especially SVV
• Amyloidosis

Oncology 

• Basic cancer biology 
• All hematologic cancer (including MDS)
• Colon/HCC
• Breast/Lung
• Thyroid/ CUP

Infectious Diseases

• HIV
• TB - MDR/XDR TB regimes
• Adverse drug reactions of Antimicrobials
• All tropical infections
• Fungal infections and febrile neutropenia 

Critical Care

• Basic ventilator strategies 
• Toxicology 
• Critical care myo-neuropathy 
• General Rx of severe sepsis / septic shock 
• Arrhythmias (like electrical storm)

Now that you know the most important General Medicine topics, you know where to focus your efforts. So try making the best use of the time you have in hand. Solve all the related PYQs from these topics, take mock tests which are easily available on the PrepLadder app. 

All the very best!

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