Rajasthan PSC syllabus for Homoeopathy Medical Officer

Rajasthan public service commission, Ajmer  Syllabus  for  screening test  for the post of homoeopathic chikitsak, ayurveda department

MATERIA MEDICA
The   syllabus   of   Materia   Medica   shall   be   polychrest   and   the   most   commonly   indicated   drugs   for  everyday ailments applied Materia Medica and comparative Materia Medica.

(a) Nature and Scope of Homoeopathic Materia Medica.
(b) Sources of Homoeopathic Materia Medica.
(c) Different ways of studying the Materia Medica.

(a) Comparative study of drugs.
(b) Complimentary, inimical, antidotal and concomitant remedies.
(c) Therapeutic applications (applied Materia Medica.
(d) Schuslers 12 tissue remedies (Biochemic system of medicine).

ORGANON OF MEDICINE Vth AND VIth EDITIONS INCLUDING APHORISM A TO 294 & HOMOEOPATHIC PHILOSOPHY.
Hahnemann’s   Organon   of   Medicine-Theoretical   &  Practical   part,   Homoeopathic   Philosophy   –   The  scope    of  Homoeopathy.      The  logic of   Homoeopathy      Significance    &  implications   of  Totality   of symptoms   Concept   of   Health   &  Disease,   susceptibility;   reactions,   immunity;   Theory   of   Acute   & Chronic Miasms.

(a) History of Medicine.
(b) History of Homoeopathy, its spread to different countries.
(c) Concepts of health and factors modifying it.
(d) Concept of susceptibility and vital reaction.
(e) Concept of disease and totality of symptoms.
(f)  Concept of Cure and Disease and Drug relationship.
(g) Concept of Drug, Medicine and Remedy.
(h) Scope   and   limitations   of   different   modes   of  employing   medicines   in   disease   Antipathy,  Allopathy and Homoeopathy.
(i)  Various methods of classification and evaluations of symptoms common and characteristic, General and particular.
(j)  Concepts of incurable disease, suppression and palliation.
(k) Prophylactics.
(l)  Scope and Limitations of Homoeopathy.
(m)Remedy response, prognosis after administration of remedy.
(n) Principles and criteria for repetition and selection of potency.
(o) Diet
(p) Ancillary Mode of Treatment.

HOMOEOPATHIC PHARMACY
Homoeopathic       Pharmacy     including    General   Knowledge      of  Indian   Homoeopathic      Pharmocopia, German Homoeopathic Pharmocopia and American Homoeopathic Pharmocopia.

(a) History of the art and science of Pharmaceutics.
(b) Literature on Homoeopathic Pharmaceutics.
(c) Sources of Homoeopathic Pharmacy.
(d) Homoeopathic Pharmacy: its speciality  and originality.
(e) Importance of the knowledge of Pharmacy.
(f)  Sources    of  knowledge     about   curative   powers    of  the  technique    of  Drug   proving    in  Homoeopathy.
(g) Properties of Drugs.
(h) Relation of Pharmaceutics with other sciences.
(i)  Inter-relationship    of  different  schools   of  Pharmacy     with  emphasis    on   relationship   of  Allopathic and Homoeopathic Pharmacy.

REPERTORY
The    History   of  Repertory;    Types    of  Repertory-Boenninghausen’s        Repertory,    Kent’s   Repertory, Boger’s Boenninghausen Repertory, Card Repertories and Case taking and Repertorisation.

Correlation of Repertory with Therapeutics and Materia Medica.

(a) History and development of repertories till date.
(b) Types of repertories.
(c) Explanation of terminology’s used in various repertories.
(d) Boenninghausen’s therapeutic pocket book and Boger Boenninghausen’s repertory.
(e) Kent’s repertory.
(f)  Introduction to card repertory.
(g) Specific regional repertories.
(h) Introduction to Computer Repertorization.
(i)  Synthesis Repertory.

GYNAECOLOGY & OBSTRATICS  AND FAMILY WELFARE  INCLUDING HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS :
1. Common Gynaecological diseases:-

    (a) Infant care
(b) Neonatal hygiene
(c) Breast feeding
(d) Artificial feeding.
(e) Asphysia
(f)  Birth injuries.

    2 Obstetrics:
(a) Diagnosis of pregnancy.
(b) Ante natal care.
(c) Abnormal Pregnancy : Introduction.
(d) Normal Labour.
(e) Abnormal labour : Introduction.
(f) Care of the new born.
(g) Family planning methods including M.T.P. & Sterilization.

MEDICINE : Including Homoeopathic Therapeutics
Basic principles of Internal Medicine including diseases like :

(a) Nutritional diseases.
(b) Immunological Factors in Diseases.
(c) Metabolic Disease & Deficiency Diseases.
(d) Endocrinal Diseases.
(e) Liver and Biliary tract Diseases.
(f)  Cardiovascular system Diseases.
(g) Connective Tissue Disorders.
(h) Skin Diseases.
(i)  Paediatrics.
(j)  Respiratory diseases.
(k) Diseases of Nervous System & Mental Diseases.
(l)  Infectious Diseases.

GENERAL SURGERY : Including Homoeopathic Therapeutics
Principles   of   Surgery,   Fundamentals       of  Clinical  Examination,     Minor   Operative   Surgery,   General Surgical     Diseases,   Disease    of  Infancy    and  Childhood,     Inflammation,     infection,   ulcer,  gangrene, tumours, cysts, muscles, tendon bursae, lymphatic system, Vascular system, spleen, general diseases, Opthalmology, Thyroid, Gastrointestinal system, Bones, joints, Dental Surgery.

COMMUNITY MEDICINE :
Basic   principles   of   Community   Medicine   including   epidemiology   and   control   of   diseases,   National  Health Programmes, Occupational Medicine, Family Welfare, School Health Servies, Health Planning and   Management,   Health   Education,   Community   Health   Care   and   International   Health,   Food   and  nutrition,    Balanced     diets,  Nutritional    deficiencies,    personal   hygiene,    Environmental       sanitation, General Principles of prevention and control of communicable diseases : Plague, Cholera, small pox, diphtheria,    leprosy,   tuberculosis,    malaria,   kala-azar,   filariasis,  common      viral,  diseases   e.g.  cold measles,     chicken     pox,   poliomyelitis,    infective    hepatitis,   helminthic     infections,   enteric   fever,dysenteries, General prevention and control of non-communicable diseases e.g. obesity, hypertension,

Maternal and Child health.

Pattern of Question Papers :

• Objective Type Paper.
• Maximum Marks : 100
• Number of Questions : 100
• Duration of Paper : Two Hours.
• All Questions carry equal marks.
• There will be Negative Marking.

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