SYLLABUS
SYLLABUS COVERED IN PAPER-I (GENERAL STUDIES & MENTAL ABILITY)
- 1. General Science
- 2.Current events of national and international importance.
- 3. History of India
- 4. World Geography and Geography of India with a focus on AP.
- 5. Indian polity and Economy
- 6. Mental ability – reasoning and inferences.
SYLLABUS COVERED IN PAPER-I (GENERAL STUDIES & MENTAL ABILITY)
- 1. Importance of various Pharmacopeas with special reference to Indian Pharmacopoes, British Pharmacopea, Unites States Pharmacopoea and International Pharmacopoes.
- 2. Sources of drugs: Plant, Animal, Mineral, Synthetic and Biotechnological drugs.
- 3. Preparation of Infusions, Decoctions, Tinctures, Solutions, Soft and Dry extracts. Introduction and classification of various pharmaceutical dosage forms.
- 4. Various parts of “Prescription” handling of prescriptions preliminary knowledge of important Latin terms useful in interpretation of prescription and their translation into English.
- 5. Posology: Calculation of dosage for infants, children adults and elderly persons. Alcohol dilutions, Proof spirit, Isotonic solutions, Displacement value.
- 6. Brief outline of communicable diseases, their causative agents, modes of transmission and their prevention (Chicken pox, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Filaria, Leprosy, Sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS).
- 7. First Aid: Emergency treatment of shock, snake-bites, burns, poisoning and fractures.
- 8. Classification of microbes their structure and identification. Bacterial growth, nutritional requirements and staining.
- 9. Contamination of pharmaceuticals in hospital and community environments by microbes.
- 10. Sterilization: Definition, types, procedure and testing.
- 11. Sterilization of materials, equipments and utencils used in hospitals, centralized and decentralised sterilization. Drug distribution system in hospitals for out-patients and in-patients.
- 12. Opthalmic preparations: formulations, methods of preparation, containers and evaluation.
- 13. Collection, processing, storage and evaluation of blood, blood products and plasma – substitutes
- 14. Surgical products: Surgical cotton, surgical guazes, bandages, sutures, ligatures and catguts.
- 15. Definition and types of incompatibilities (Physical Chemical and Therapeutic), correction of incompatibilities.
- 16. Anatomy and physiology of Cardio-vascular system and related common disorders like hypertension, hypotension, angina, myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure.
- 17. Anatomy and physiology of Digestive system and related disorders like peptic ulcers, constipation, diarrhoea and jaundice.
- 18. Functions of different parts of Brain and spinal cord, Neuohumoral transmission in the central nervous system and autonomic nervous system.
- 19. Drugs, acting on cardiovascular system: Digitalis and other cardiac glycosides, anti-hypertensive drugs, anti-anginal and vasodilators including calcium channel antagonists.
- 20. Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal tract: antacids, anti-ulcer drugs, anti-emetics, laxatives and anti diarrhoeal drugs.
- 21. Drugs acting on central nervous systems: Sadatives, hypnotics, anti-anxiety agents, centrally acting muscle relaxants, anti-epileptics, analgesic, anti-phyretic and anti-inflammatory drugs.
- 22. Antigens, anti-bodies, antigen-anti body reactions, hypersensitivity active and passive immunity types of vaccines.
- 23. Historical development of antibiotics. Isolation of fermentation products with special reference to pencillins and tetracyclines.
- 24. Carbohydrate metabolism: Glycolysis, glucogenesis, glucogenolysis, glycogen formation, pentose phosphate pathway, uronic acid pathway, abnormalities of carbohydrate metabolism.
- 25. Introduction and principles of anti-microbial therapy Cotrimoxazole, fluorauinelones, newer pencillins, broad spectrum antibiotics, cephalosporins, macrolides, anti-tubercular, anti-leprotic, antifungal and anti-viral drugs.
- 26. Anti protozoan and anthelmintic drugs. Chemitheraphy of neoplastic diseases.
- 27. Salient features of Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and Rules, 1945 with special reference to Duties and powers of Inspectors. Composition and functions of statutory bodies.
- 28. Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic substances Act, 1985 with special reference to procurement and utilization of dosage forms.