The Combined Medical Services Exam or the CMS Exam is conducted by the UPSC for the post of Medical Officer in various organizations such as the Indian Ordnance Factories, Indian Railways functioning under the Government of India. The Notification for the examination is usually released in September of every month and examination is conducted in January of every month. All successful candidates are admitted to various organizations of Government of India after an interview conducted by the Union Public Service Commission for those having qualified the written examination.The examination shall be conducted according to the following plan:-
Detailed Syllabus of Combined Medical Services Exam
Part-I
WRITTEN EXAMINATION - (500 marks)
The candidates will take the written examination in two Papers, each Paper carrying a maximum of 250 marks. Each Paper will be of two hours duration.
Part-II
Personality Test carrying 100 marks of such of the candidates who qualify on the results of the written examination.
Syllabus of Combined Medical Services Exam-Part-I
(A) Written Examination: The components and syllabus of two Papers and the weightage to different components in the two papers are given below: -
Paper I Maximum Marks : 250
(a) General Ability 30 questions
(b) General Medicine 70 questions
(c) Paediatrics 20 questions
Total questions in Paper I = 120 (30 General Ability, 70 General Medicine and 20 Paediatrics)
Syllabus of Paper I
(a) General Ability
1. Indian Society, Heritage & Culture, Polity, Economy, Human Development Indices and the Development Programmes;
2. Natural Resources, their distribution, exploitation, conservation and related issues;
3. Basic concepts of Ecology and Environment and their impact on health and economy;
4. Impact of changing demographic trends on health, environment and society;
5. Indian Agriculture, Industry, Trade, Transportation and Service Sectors;
6. Natural and man made disasters and their management;
7. Food adulteration, Food processing, food distribution, food storage and their relevance to public health;
8. Recent trends in Science and Technology
(b) General Medicine (General Medicine including Cardiology, Neurology, Dermatology and Psychiatry)
1. Cardiology
2. Respiratory diseases
3. Gastro-intestinal
4. Genito-Urinary
5. Neurology
6. Hematology
7. Endocrinology
8. Metabolic disorders
9. Infections/Communicable Diseases
10. Virus, Rickets, Bacterial, Spirochetal, Protozoan, Metazoan, Fungus
11. Nutrition/Growth
12.Diseases of the skin (Dermatology)
13. Musculoskelatal System
14. Psychiatry
15. General
(c) Paediatrics
Detailed Syllabus of Combined Medical Services Exam Paper - II
Paper II Maximum Marks : 250
Syllabus of Paper - II
(a) Surgery
(Surgery including ENT, Opthalmology, Traumatology and Orthopaedics)
1. General Surgery
2. Urological Surgery
3. Neuro Surgery
4. Otorhinolaryngology E.N.T.
5. Thoracic surgery
6. Orthopedic surgery
7. Ophthalmology
8. Anesthesiology
9. Traumatology
(b) GYNAECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS
1. OBSTETRICS
2. GYNAECOLOGY
3. FAMILY PLANNING
(c) PREVENTIVE SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY MEDICINE
2. The written examination in both the papers will be completely of objective (Multiple choice answer) type. The question Papers (Test Booklets) will be set in English only.
3. Candidates must write the Papers in their own hand. In no circumstances will they be allowed the help of a scribe to write answers for them.
4. The Commission have discretion to fix qualifying marks in any or both the papers of the examination.
5. Penalty for wrong answers
There will be penalty (Negative Marking) for wrong answers marked by a candidate in the objective type question papers.
(i) There are four alternatives for the answers to every question. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate, one third (0.33) of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty.
(ii) If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as a wrong answer even if one of the given answers happens to be correct and there will be same penalty as above for that question.
(iii) If a question is left blank i.e. no answer is given by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question.
6. Candidates are not permitted to use calculators for answering objective type papers. They should, therefore not bring the same inside the Examination Hall.
Detailed Syllabus of Combined Medical Services Exam -PERSONALITY TEST
(B) PERSONALITY TEST - (100 marks)
Candidates who qualify in the written examination will be called for Interview/Personality Test to be conducted by the Union Public Service Commission. The Interview/Personality Test will carry 100 marks.
The interview for Personality Test will be intended to serve as a supplement to the written examination for testing the General Knowledge and ability of the candidates in the fields of their academic study and also in the nature of a personality test to assess the candidates intellectual curiosity, critical powers of assimilation, balance of judgment and alertness of mind, ability for social cohesion, integrity of character, initiative and capability for leadership.
Detailed Syllabus link in UPSC Official Website will be published only after the notification
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