Medical Exams

Medical education focuses on study, diagnosis and treatment of a patient, who has a health concern and who seeks a physician’s help. Studying medicine requires that the student is inquisitive, analytical, like to communicate with people and is good at sciences particularly biology, chemistry and physics.
The undergraduate degree offered for medical study in India is MBBS. It is a four and half year’s course followed by one year of Compulsory Rotating Residential Internship. The MBBS degree has four stages. The first stage is a foundation course where the student learns the basic principles of communication, ethics and problem based learning. In the second stage the student learns the basic sciences of Anatomy, physiology and biochemistry. In the third stage the student learns about pharmacology, pathology, microbiology and forensic medicine. In the fourth stage the subjects that are covered are ophthalmology, community medicine, general medicine, pediatrics, surgery, orthopedic surgery, obstetrics & gynecology.
There are two essential traits that are essential to become a successful medical practitioner. The first one is Inductive Reasoning, the knack for quickly seeing connections between unlike phenomena. Inductive reasoning helps in isolating the cause of an ailment or quickly arriving at a theory to explain the relationship between various symptoms. The second one is Structural Visualization, the knack for working with three dimensional concepts easily and quickly. Structural Visualization helps in visualizing the spatial relations between organs and understanding the effects of molecular chemical process on human anatomy. Medical entrance tests try to assess these qualities in a candidate.
In order to obtain a medical seat a candidate should take the entrance tests at All India Level or State Level. Most of the medical entrance exams have duration from 2 – 3 1/2 hour and gauges the student’s subjective knowledge in the subjects of physics, chemistry, biology and also general knowledge. The types of questions are multiple objective type, subjective type, assertion and reasoning type. The nature of these questions is both theoretical and numerical or calculation based.