Curriculum
Every topic on the OMSB Selection Examination blueprint — 1197 written notes across 20 categories. Each note is written from the course material and carries the page it came from.
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- Cardiovascular and Hypertension82
- Counselling15
- ENT, Ophthalmology, and Dermatology142
- Elderly / Community care17
- Gastroenterology86
- Gynecology / Women's Health / Infertility / Perinatal Care / Birth Spacing93
- Hematology65
- Infection Control18
- Mental Health / Psychiatry59
- Metabolic and Endocrine and Diabetes Mellitus70
- Musculoskeletal / Orthopedic / Rheumatology80
- Nephrology and Urology47
- Neurology105
- Pediatric / Nutrition & Growth / EPI / Routine Child Examination101
- Professionalism and Medical Ethics11
- Public Health and Communicable Diseases67
- Respiratory39
- Screening (National/International)35
- Surgery44
- Toxicology and Emergency Care21
Cardiovascular and Hypertension82
- Acute decompensated left heart failure with pulmonary oedema
- Acute limb ischaemia
- Adverse effects of antihypertensive drugs
- Antibiotic prophylaxis against infective endocarditis
- Antibiotic prophylaxis before dental procedures
- Antimicrobial therapy of infective endocarditis
- Aortic dissection
- Aortic regurgitation
- Aortic stenosis
- Approach to acute chest pain
- Aspirin for primary cardiovascular prophylaxis
- Atrial fibrillation
- Atrial septal defect
- Bicuspid aortic valve
- Blood pressure classification thresholds: ACC/AHA versus ESC/ESH
- Blood pressure treatment targets
- Cardiac biomarkers in acute coronary syndrome
- Cardiac cirrhosis from chronic right heart failure
- Cardiac tamponade
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and rhythm check
- Carotid artery stenosis
- Choice of reperfusion therapy in STEMI
- Choosing between transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography in suspected endocarditis
- Chronic stable angina
- Complete (third-degree) heart block
- Constrictive pericarditis
- Critical limb ischaemia
- Determination of the cardiac axis on ECG
- Diagnostic criteria for infective endocarditis
- Digoxin toxicity
- Dressler syndrome (post-myocardial-infarction pericarditis)
- ECG interpretation (general)
- Essential hypertension
- Evaluation of a cardiac murmur
- Exercise treadmill stress testing
- First-degree atrioventricular block
- HEART score for chest pain risk stratification
- Heart failure
- Hypertension in the patient with diabetes
- Hypertensive emergency
- Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
- Infective endocarditis
- Interpretation of the jugular venous pressure waveform
- Left bundle branch block
- Leriche syndrome (aorto-iliac occlusive disease)
- Lifestyle and dietary management of hypertension
- Localization of myocardial infarction on ECG
- Long QT syndrome
- Marfan syndrome
- Mechanical complications of myocardial infarction
- Mitral regurgitation
- Mitral stenosis
- Mitral valve prolapse
- Pericardial effusion
- Peripheral arterial disease and ankle-brachial index
- Peripheral stigmata of infective endocarditis
- Post-cardiac-arrest (post-ROSC) care
- Pretest probability of coronary artery disease
- Prosthetic heart valves: bioprosthetic versus mechanical
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Resistant hypertension: definition and the five management steps
- Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
- Right bundle branch block
- ST-elevation myocardial infarction
- Second-degree AV block, Mobitz type I (Wenckebach)
- Second-degree AV block, Mobitz type II
- Secondary prevention after myocardial infarction
- Severe asymptomatic hypertension versus hypertensive emergency
- Spectrum of acute coronary syndromes
- Statin therapy: indication and monitoring
- Streptococcus bovis endocarditis and colonic evaluation
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Symptomatic bradycardia
- TIMI risk score in unstable angina and NSTEMI
- Time course of ECG changes in myocardial infarction
- Torsades de pointes (polymorphic ventricular tachycardia)
- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- Unstable angina and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction
- Vasovagal syncope
- Ventricular fibrillation
- Ventricular tachycardia
- Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
Counselling15
- BRCA familial risk assessment and genetic counselling
- Breastfeeding promotion and the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative
- Counselling parents who refuse vaccination
- Counselling the adolescent patient
- Instructing caregivers on liquid medication dosing
- Medication reconciliation
- Motivational interviewing
- Physical activity counselling
- Preconception folic acid advice
- Reassurance, expectation setting and safety-netting advice
- Responding to an adolescent with somatic complaints from bullying
- Shared decision making
- Smoking cessation counselling and pharmacotherapy
- Supporting treatment adherence and directly observed therapy
- Use of a medical interpreter
ENT, Ophthalmology, and Dermatology142
- Abducens nerve palsy
- Acne by age and when to investigate for endocrine disease
- Acne rosacea
- Acne vulgaris
- Acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma)
- Acute and chronic laryngitis
- Acute angle closure glaucoma
- Acute epiglottitis
- Acute otitis media
- Acute ptosis with diplopia: aneurysmal versus ischaemic cause
- Acute rhinosinusitis
- Acute tonsillitis
- Age-related macular degeneration
- Allergic conjunctivitis
- Allergic contact dermatitis and the patch test
- Anterior uveitis
- Approach to the red eye
- Aspergillus versus Candida infection of the ear canal
- Atopic dermatitis
- Bacterial conjunctivitis
- Basal cell carcinoma
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
- Blanching versus non-blanching lesions and diascopy
- Blepharitis
- Branchial cleft cyst
- Cellulitis
- Central retinal artery occlusion
- Central retinal vein occlusion
- Chalazion
- Choanal atresia
- Cholesteatoma
- Chronic rhinosinusitis
- Classification of hearing impairment
- Closed globe injury
- Configuration and distribution of skin lesions
- Conjunctival follicles versus papillae
- Corneal abrasion
- Cystic hygroma (lymphangioma)
- Dacryoadenitis
- Deciding on antibiotics in sore throat (Centor and FeverPAIN)
- Dermatophytosis and KOH microscopy
- Dermoid cyst of the neck
- Differential diagnosis of a membrane over the tonsil
- Diphtheria
- Drug-induced cataract
- Dry eye syndrome and Schirmer's test
- Epistaxis
- Erythema nodosum
- Female pattern hair loss
- Fundoscopy interpretation
- Head lice
- Herpes simplex (cutaneous)
- Herpetic (dendritic) keratitis
- Hordeolum (stye)
- Impacted cerumen
- Impetigo
- Infantile strabismus and the timing of ophthalmology referral
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Interpretation of audiometry and tympanometry
- Kaposi's sarcoma
- Keloid scar
- Keratoconus
- Keratosis obturans
- Laryngeal leukoplakia
- Laryngomalacia
- Laryngopharyngeal reflux
- Lichen planus
- Management of chronic rhinitis
- Melanoma
- Melasma
- Meniere's disease
- Miliaria
- Nasal foreign body
- Nasal polyps
- Nasal septal haematoma
- Nevus sebaceous
- Noise-induced hearing loss
- Noise-induced sensorineural hearing loss
- Ocular toxoplasmosis
- Onychomycosis
- Open-angle glaucoma
- Optic neuritis
- Orbital cellulitis
- Orbital floor fracture
- Orolabial herpes simplex infection
- Otalgia and otorrhoea: causes by anatomical site
- Otitic barotrauma
- Otitis externa
- Otorrhoea in a child with tympanostomy tubes
- Otosclerosis
- Ototoxic drugs
- Paraganglioma (glomus tumour)
- Parotid gland tumours
- Pinguecula
- Pityriasis rosea
- Pityriasis versicolor
- Postpartum telogen effluvium
- Presbycusis
- Proptosis and its sight-threatening mechanisms
- Pseudofolliculitis / folliculitis barbae
- Psoriasis
- Ptosis: causes and evaluation
- Pure tone audiogram interpretation
- Quinsy
- Retinal detachment
- Retinoblastoma
- Rhinitis
- Rhinitis medicamentosa
- Rinne and Weber tuning fork tests
- Salivary gland neoplasm
- Scabies
- Seborrhoeic dermatitis
- Secondary skin lesions
- Sialadenitis
- Skin prick test
- Streptococcal score for sore throat
- Subglottic stenosis
- Sudden sensorineural hearing loss
- Terbinafine monitoring
- Tinea capitis
- Tinea corporis
- Tinea pedis
- Tinnitus: types, differential and investigation
- Tonometry and intraocular pressure measurement
- Trachoma and its WHO grading
- Trochlear nerve palsy
- Tympanic membrane perforation
- Tympanometry and tympanogram types
- Umbilicated papules caused by a pox virus
- Urticaria
- VEGF and anti-VEGF therapy in ophthalmology
- Vascular (pulse-synchronous) tinnitus
- Venous ulceration and the CEAP classification
- Vertebrobasilar ischaemia as a cause of dizziness
- Vestibular neuronitis
- Viral conjunctivitis
- Viral labyrinthitis
- Viral warts (verrucae)
- Vitiligo
- Vocal cord palsy
- Vocal cord polyps and nodules
- Wood's lamp findings in skin infection (erythrasma)
Elderly / Community care17
- Acute reversible causes of urinary incontinence in the elderly
- Anticoagulation decisions in the frail older adult who falls
- Antidepressant selection in older adults
- Asymptomatic bacteriuria in older women
- Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia
- Continuity of care
- Cornerstones of family medicine
- Eligibility for hospice care
- Fall risk screening in community-dwelling older adults
- Geriatric syndromes (delirium, falls, polypharmacy)
- Hypoglycaemia and cognitive decline in older adults with diabetes
- Illness behaviour and health-seeking in the community
- Polypharmacy
- Potentially inappropriate medications in older adults (Beers criteria)
- Pressure ulcer care
- Symptom management at the end of life
- When to stop cancer screening in older adults
Gastroenterology86
- Achalasia
- Acute (ascending) cholangitis
- Acute cholecystitis
- Acute pancreatitis
- Acute viral hepatitis
- Alarm features in dyspepsia requiring endoscopy
- Alcoholic hepatitis
- Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
- Anal fissure
- Apple core lesion on barium enema
- Approach to abnormal liver function tests
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Barrett oesophagus
- Budd-Chiari syndrome
- Candida oesophagitis
- Child-Pugh score
- Cholestasis / obstructive jaundice
- Chronic hepatitis C
- Chronic pancreatitis
- Cirrhosis
- Classification of dysphagia: oropharyngeal versus oesophageal
- Clostridioides difficile colitis
- Coeliac disease
- Colonic angiodysplasia
- Colorectal cancer
- Confirming Helicobacter pylori eradication after treatment
- Crohn disease
- Diagnostic paracentesis and ascitic fluid analysis
- Dieulafoy lesion
- Differentiating inflammatory from non-inflammatory diarrhoea
- Diffuse oesophageal spasm
- Diverticular disease of the colon
- Dumping syndrome after gastrectomy
- Dysphagia: oropharyngeal versus oesophageal
- Endoscopic haemostasis in gastrointestinal bleeding
- Familial adenomatous polyposis
- Fatty liver disease
- Fistula in ano
- Functional dyspepsia
- Gallstone disease and biliary colic
- Gallstones: cholelithiasis and choledocholithiasis
- Gastric MALT lymphoma
- Gastric varices
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease
- Gastroprotection with NSAID therapy
- Haemorrhoids
- Hepatic encephalopathy
- Hepatitis A: serological and virological course after exposure
- Hepatitis C: risk groups, testing and treatment
- Hepatitis D
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Hereditary haemochromatosis
- Hereditary hyperbilirubinaemia syndromes
- Heyde syndrome
- Indications for treating chronic hepatitis B
- Indications for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy
- Inherited hyperbilirubinaemia syndromes
- Interpretation of hepatitis serology
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Lower gastrointestinal bleeding
- Mallory-Weiss syndrome
- Management of ascites in cirrhosis
- Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding
- Oesophageal foreign body
- Oesophageal varices
- Pancreatic cancer
- Pancreatic cystic lesions
- Pancreatic pseudocyst
- Peptic ulcer disease
- Perianal abscess
- Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
- Primary biliary cholangitis
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Prognostic markers in acute liver injury
- Reading the abdominal x-ray in bowel obstruction
- Risk of chronic hepatitis B by age at infection
- Risks of long-term proton pump inhibitor therapy
- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
- Steatorrhoea and fat malabsorption
- Symptoms that accompany acute diarrhoea
- Toxic megacolon
- Ulcerative colitis
- Upper gastrointestinal bleeding
- Wilson disease
- Zenker diverticulum
- Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (gastrinoma)
Gynecology / Women's Health / Infertility / Perinatal Care / Birth Spacing93
- Abnormal CTG in labour: first-line measures
- Abnormal labour (dystocia)
- Abnormal uterine bleeding
- Antepartum haemorrhage: differential by presentation
- Asherman syndrome (intrauterine adhesions)
- Atrophic vaginitis (genitourinary syndrome of menopause)
- Axillary lymph node surgery in breast cancer
- Azoospermia
- BI-RADS breast imaging classification
- Bacterial vaginosis
- Breast abscess
- Breast cancer chemoprevention
- Breast lump
- Breech presentation and mode of delivery
- Cervical insufficiency and cervical cerclage
- Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, colposcopy and LLETZ
- Checking and documenting the fetal heart in the delivery ward
- Choice of contraceptive method
- Chorioamnionitis
- Chorionic villus sampling
- Chronic hypertension in pregnancy
- Combined oral contraceptives
- Congenital anomalies in diabetic pregnancy
- Contraception in sickle cell disease
- Contraindications to intrauterine device use
- Definition of infertility
- Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate
- Ductal carcinoma in situ
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Emergency contraception
- Fetal indications for termination of pregnancy
- Fetal macrosomia
- Gestational diabetes mellitus
- HELLP syndrome
- Hepatitis B in pregnancy
- Hypertension during lactation
- Hyperthyroidism in pregnancy
- Imperforate hymen and Mullerian anomalies
- In-utero (maternal) transfer to another hospital
- Indications for antenatal admission and fetal monitoring
- Induction of labour
- Infertility: initial evaluation of a couple failing to conceive
- Insufficient milk supply / lactation failure
- Intraductal papilloma
- Intrauterine insemination (IUI)
- Lactational mastitis
- Mammary duct ectasia
- Management of a simple ovarian cyst
- Mastalgia
- Maternity early warning score (MEWS/MOEWS)
- Meconium-stained liquor
- Medication safety in pregnancy
- Menopause and hormone therapy
- Miscarriage
- Non-lactational mastitis
- Obstetric VTE risk assessment
- Obstetric perineal tear and anal sphincter injury
- Oral intake in labour
- Ovarian cyst: ultrasound characterisation and management
- Partograph
- Pelvic organ prolapse
- Pharmacological pain relief in labour
- Placenta praevia
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Postcoital bleeding
- Postmenopausal bleeding and endometrial carcinoma
- Postpartum (puerperal) pyrexia
- Postpartum contraception
- Postpartum endometritis
- Postpartum maternal vitamin A and MMR in the Oman schedule
- Postpartum thyroiditis
- Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
- Preterm labour and preterm prelabour rupture of membranes
- Primary amenorrhoea
- Primary postpartum haemorrhage
- Pyelonephritis in pregnancy
- Reduced fetal movements
- Rhesus isoimmunisation
- Rubella in pregnancy
- Secondary amenorrhoea
- Semen analysis and male infertility
- Sheehan syndrome
- Simple breast cyst
- Term prelabour rupture of membranes
- Termination of pregnancy for maternal indications
- Twin pregnancy
- Urinary tract infection in pregnancy
- Uterine fibroids
- Uterine rupture
- Vacuum-assisted (instrumental) vaginal delivery
- Vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC)
- Varicella in pregnancy
- Venous thromboembolism in pregnancy
Hematology65
- ABO blood groups: antigens, antibodies and genotypes
- Acute leukaemia
- Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: prognostic factors
- Acute promyelocytic leukaemia
- Alpha-thalassaemia
- Ann Arbor staging of lymphoma
- Aplastic anaemia
- Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (warm and cold)
- Bernard-Soulier syndrome
- Beta-thalassaemia major
- Beta-thalassaemia trait (thalassaemia minor)
- Blood components: dose and storage
- Burkitt lymphoma
- Choosing the right blood component
- Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
- Classification of non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Classification of thrombocytopenia
- Clinical approach to lymphadenopathy
- Diamond-Blackfan anaemia
- Differential diagnosis of a prolonged APTT
- Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation
- Drug-induced thrombocytopenia
- Essential thrombocythaemia
- Evaluation of unexplained leukocytosis
- Fanconi anaemia
- Febrile neutropenia
- G6PD deficiency
- Haemoglobin thresholds for red cell transfusion
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
- Haemophilia
- Haemophilia A (factor VIII deficiency)
- Haemophilia B (factor IX deficiency)
- Hereditary spherocytosis
- Hodgkin lymphoma
- Hyposplenism and Howell-Jolly bodies
- Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP)
- Inheritance of sickle cell disease and thalassaemia
- Iron chelation therapy
- Iron deficiency anaemia
- Irradiated blood components
- Laboratory diagnosis of haemoglobinopathies and reading the HPLC report
- Laboratory markers of haemolysis
- Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance
- Multiple myeloma
- Myeloproliferative neoplasms: comparison
- Normal haemoglobin types and the fetal-to-adult switch
- Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria
- Pathophysiology and genetics of thalassaemia
- Polycythaemia vera
- Pre-transfusion testing and crossmatching
- Red cell alloimmunisation and finding compatible blood
- Sickle cell disease
- Sideroblastic anaemia
- The 50:50 mixing study
- The coagulation cascade and its pathways
- The dimorphic blood film
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
- Transfusion-associated circulatory overload
- Tumour lysis syndrome
- Unfractionated heparin versus low molecular weight heparin
- Vitamin B12 deficiency
- Von Willebrand disease
- Waldenstrom macroglobulinaemia and hyperviscosity
- Warfarin over-anticoagulation and reversal
Infection Control18
- Airborne precautions and isolation room requirements
- Asymptomatic bacteriuria and candiduria in catheterised patients
- Blood and body fluid splash exposure
- Droplet precautions in suspected meningococcal disease
- HIV post-exposure prophylaxis
- Healthcare worker immunisation
- Isolation and airborne precautions for suspected pulmonary tuberculosis
- Isolation and de-isolation of the patient with infectious tuberculosis
- MRSA infection control in long-term care facilities
- Needle stick injury
- Outpatient antibiotic stewardship
- Perinatal hepatitis B immunoprophylaxis
- Personal protective equipment
- Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia
- Reviewing intravenous antibiotics and stepping down to oral
- School management and exclusion policy for head lice
- Sharps disposal and clinical waste
- Tuberculosis contact screening and chemoprophylaxis
Mental Health / Psychiatry59
- Acute agitation and rapid tranquillisation
- Acute stress reaction (post-traumatic symptoms of under one month)
- Agoraphobia
- Alcohol misuse
- Alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens
- Assessment of the forgetful older patient: history and investigations
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Bulimia nervosa
- Choice and safety of antidepressants in medical comorbidity
- Chronic opioid therapy for non-cancer pain and safe tapering
- Circumstantiality and tangentiality
- Conduct disorder
- Delirium
- Delusion of reference
- Delusional disorder
- Discontinuation and withdrawal syndromes of psychotropic drugs
- Dysthymic disorder (persistent depressive disorder)
- Extrapyramidal side effects of antipsychotics
- Factitious disorder (Munchausen syndrome) and malingering
- Generalised anxiety disorder
- Impulse control disorders (kleptomania and pyromania)
- Lithium therapy and its adverse effects
- Major depressive disorder
- Medical and substance-induced mimics of anxiety
- Mild neurocognitive disorder
- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Opioid overdose and its reversal
- Oppositional defiant disorder
- Panic disorder
- Personality disorder with perfectionism and rigidity
- Pharmacotherapy of opioid use disorder
- Physical signs of an eating disorder
- Positive and negative symptoms in psychosis
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Postpartum depression
- Postpartum psychosis
- Psychiatric rating scales and questionnaires
- Reaction to an identifiable psychosocial stressor: management
- Restrictive eating disorder with severe weight loss and amenorrhoea
- Rett syndrome
- Risk assessment and indication for psychiatric admission
- Schizoid personality disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Serotonin syndrome
- Social anxiety disorder
- Somatic symptom disorder
- Somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder
- Somatization disorder and the somatoform spectrum
- Stages of the grief cycle
- Subtypes of schizophrenia (catatonic, disorganised, paranoid)
- Suicide: epidemiology and risk factors
- Symptom-duration thresholds in psychiatric diagnosis
- Taking a psychiatric history
- The mental state examination and its terminology
- Tourette syndrome and tics
Metabolic and Endocrine and Diabetes Mellitus70
- Acromegaly
- Addison disease (primary adrenal insufficiency)
- Adrenal cortex zones and the hormones they secrete
- Adrenal incidentaloma
- Agranulocytosis from antithyroid drugs
- Approach to an adrenal lesion
- Approach to thyroid function testing
- Basal-bolus insulin regimen and dose adjustment
- Bethesda classification of thyroid FNAC
- Calcium homeostasis: parathyroid hormone, vitamin D and calcitonin
- Carcinoid syndrome
- Central versus nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
- Cushing syndrome
- Cystic fibrosis-related diabetes
- Delayed puberty
- Diabetes and Ramadan: pre-fasting assessment, risk stratification and glucose monitoring
- Diabetes insipidus and the water deprivation test
- Diabetic foot ulcer
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- Diabetic retinopathy screening
- Diagnostic criteria for diabetes and prediabetes
- Factitious hypoglycaemia from exogenous insulin
- Galactosaemia
- Glycaemic targets for non-pregnant adults with diabetes
- Glycogen storage diseases and metabolic myopathy
- Graves disease and its extrathyroidal signs
- Graves disease and the place of surgery
- Growth hormone therapy and slipped capital femoral epiphysis
- HbA1c: what it measures and what alters it
- Homocystinuria and the marfanoid habitus
- Hypercalcaemia of malignancy
- Hyperglycaemic hyperosmolar state (HHS/HONK) in primary care
- Hyperprolactinaemia
- Hypocalcaemia
- Hypomagnesaemia
- Hypothyroidism
- Impaired fasting glucose (prediabetes)
- Initial management of acute metabolic decompensation
- Insulin dose redistribution and titration during Ramadan
- Insulinoma
- Interpreting thyroid function tests on and off treatment
- Kallmann syndrome
- Management of acute hypoglycaemia
- Management of hypercalcaemia
- Management of hyperglycaemia in the hospitalised patient
- Maple syrup urine disease
- McCune-Albright syndrome
- Metabolic syndrome
- Metformin and iodinated contrast
- Multinodular goitre
- Obesity
- Oral antidiabetic drug classes and their adverse effects
- Oral hypoglycaemic choice in chronic kidney disease
- Phaeochromocytoma
- Phenylketonuria
- Primary hyperaldosteronism
- Redistribution of oral antidiabetic doses during Ramadan
- Sick day management of chronic medication
- Subacute (de Quervain) thyroiditis
- Subclinical hyperthyroidism
- Subclinical hypothyroidism
- Thyroid cancer subtypes
- Thyroid nodule
- Thyroid storm
- Thyroid ultrasound risk stratification (TI-RADS)
- Type 1 diabetes mellitus
- Type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Vitamin D deficiency and monitoring
Musculoskeletal / Orthopedic / Rheumatology80
- Achilles tendinopathy
- Achilles tendon rupture
- Acute compartment syndrome
- Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and the Cobb angle
- Ankle fracture and the Weber classification
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Avascular necrosis of the femoral head in a child
- Behcet disease
- Blount disease
- Buckle (torus) fracture
- Calf pain after knee arthroplasty
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Clavicle fracture
- Clubfoot (talipes equinovarus)
- Colles fracture
- Crush syndrome and rhabdomyolysis after limb injury
- De Quervain tenosynovitis
- Delayed union and nonunion of a fracture
- Describing a fracture on a radiograph and naming its pattern
- Ewing sarcoma
- Fat embolism syndrome
- Femoral neck fracture
- Fibromyalgia
- Ganglion cyst
- Giant cell arteritis
- Gout
- Humeral shaft fracture
- Immobilisation of fractures: backslab, cast, splint and traction
- In-toeing, out-toeing and flat feet in children
- Infectious tenosynovitis
- Inflammatory myopathy (polymyositis / dermatomyositis)
- Intoeing gait
- Knee ligament injury
- Limb fracture with vascular compromise
- Localised scleroderma (morphea)
- Low back pain
- Lumbar spinal stenosis
- Malunion of a fracture
- Methotrexate monitoring
- Olecranon bursitis
- Open fracture management
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoblastoma
- Osteochondroma
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteoid osteoma
- Osteomalacia
- Osteomyelitis
- Osteoporosis
- Ottawa ankle rules
- Paget disease of bone
- Patellar fracture
- Pathological fracture
- Pelvic fracture with haemodynamic instability
- Peripheral nerve injury accompanying a fracture
- Plantar fasciitis
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Principles of fracture reduction and fixation
- Proximal fifth metatarsal fracture and metatarsal stress fracture
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate deposition)
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Reactive arthritis (Reiter syndrome)
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Rotator cuff tendinopathy and impingement
- Salter-Harris physeal fracture
- Scaphoid fracture
- Sciatica
- Septic arthritis
- Shoulder dislocation
- Sjogren syndrome
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
- Supracondylar humerus fracture
- Synovial fluid analysis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Systemic sclerosis
- Tibial shaft fracture
- Trigger finger (stenosing tenosynovitis)
- Unstable pelvic fracture and the pelvic binder
- Venous thromboembolism after fracture and its prophylaxis
Nephrology and Urology47
- Acid-base disorders and the anion gap
- Acute interstitial nephritis
- Acute kidney injury and indications for emergency dialysis
- Acute kidney injury: prerenal, intrinsic and postrenal
- Acute pyelonephritis
- Acute tubular necrosis
- Acute urinary retention
- Bartter and Gitelman syndromes
- Benign prostatic hyperplasia
- Bladder transitional cell carcinoma
- Chronic kidney disease
- Complications of arteriovenous access for haemodialysis
- Diabetic and proteinuric nephropathy
- Distinguishing cystitis from pyelonephritis at the bedside
- Erectile dysfunction
- Evaluation of haematuria
- Evaluation of hyponatraemia
- Gadolinium contrast in chronic kidney disease
- Gross haematuria after blunt trauma in a child
- HIV-associated nephropathy
- Hydrocele
- Hyperkalaemia
- Hypernatraemia
- Hypokalaemia
- Hyponatraemia
- Liddle syndrome
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Obstructed infected kidney and renal decompression
- Osmotic demyelination from rapid sodium correction
- Overactive bladder and storage lower urinary tract symptoms
- Pelviureteric junction obstruction
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis
- Postoperative urinary retention
- Potassium homeostasis and transcellular shift
- Prevention of renal stones
- Prostate cancer
- Prostatitis
- Renal artery stenosis
- Renal tubular acidosis
- Testicular mass
- Uncomplicated cystitis in women
- Upper tract urothelial carcinoma
- Ureteric colic and ureteric stones
- Urinalysis and dipstick interpretation
- Urinary incontinence
- Urine microscopy: cells, casts and crystals
Neurology105
- Absence seizure
- Acute treatment of intracerebral haemorrhage: blood pressure and haemostasis
- Adverse effects of amantadine
- Alzheimer disease
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Anterior spinal cord syndrome
- Approach to a focal neurological deficit
- Approach to altered mental status
- Approach to dizziness
- Bacterial meningitis
- Bell palsy
- Brainstem glioma and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma
- Breath-holding spells
- Brown-Sequard syndrome
- Cavernous sinus thrombosis
- Cerebellar signs and their localisation
- Cerebral artery territory infarct syndromes
- Cerebral toxoplasmosis
- Cervical spondylotic myelopathy
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Choreiform gait
- Classification of tremor
- Cluster headache
- Complete transverse spinal cord lesion
- Contraindications to thrombolysis in acute stroke
- Craniopharyngioma
- Decerebrate versus decorticate posturing
- Dermatomes and their surface landmarks
- Differentiating the dementias in an older adult
- Divisions of the nervous system
- Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy
- Epilepsy
- Essential tremor
- Foot drop and common peroneal nerve palsy
- Forearm nerve entrapment syndromes (AIN, PIN, radial nerve palsy)
- Gait patterns and their localisation
- Glasgow coma scale
- Grading of muscle power and deep tendon reflexes
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Herpes simplex (viral) encephalitis
- Herpes simplex encephalitis
- Horner syndrome
- Huntington disease
- Hydrocephalus
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
- Infantile spasms (West syndrome)
- Internuclear ophthalmoplegia
- Interpretation of CSF analysis
- Ischaemic stroke
- Lateral medullary and lateral pontine syndromes
- Localisation of foot drop
- Localisation of visual field defects
- Localising facial weakness: central versus peripheral
- Localising intracerebral haemorrhage by site
- Localising weakness to the neuromuscular junction
- Lumbar puncture: contraindications and CSF interpretation
- Management of a first unprovoked seizure
- Medial medullary syndrome
- Midbrain stroke syndromes (Weber and Benedikt)
- Migraine
- Multiple sclerosis
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myoclonic seizure
- Myotomes of the limbs
- Nerve roots of the deep tendon reflexes
- Neural tube defects
- Neurofibromatosis
- Neuromuscular junction disorder: edrophonium test and anticholinesterase treatment
- Neuromyelitis optica
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Parkinson disease
- Patterns of peripheral nerve injury beyond the spinal cord
- Phenytoin adverse effects
- Primary exertional headache
- Psychogenic non-epileptic events
- Raised intracranial pressure after head injury
- Raised intracranial pressure in a child
- Red flags in headache
- Regions and numbering of the vertebral column
- Restless legs syndrome
- Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome
- Seizure types in children (tonic-clonic, myoclonic, atonic)
- Separating lesion localisation from aetiology (VITAMIN CDE)
- Spinal cord tracts and their decussation
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Spinal muscular atrophy (Werdnig-Hoffmann)
- Status epilepticus
- Structured approach to the patient with suspected CNS infection
- Structured headache history
- Subarachnoid haemorrhage
- Subdural haematoma
- Surface anatomy of the cerebral hemisphere
- Tension-type headache
- Thunderclap headache
- Transient ischaemic attack
- Transverse myelitis
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Tuberculous meningitis
- Tuning fork in neurological examination
- Types of aphasia
- Ulnar nerve: sensory and motor distribution
- Uncal (transtentorial) herniation
- Upper versus lower motor neuron lesions
- Vascular dementia
- Vertebral artery dissection
Pediatric / Nutrition & Growth / EPI / Routine Child Examination101
- Acute bronchiolitis
- Acute rheumatic fever
- Benign neonatal skin findings
- Bronchopulmonary dysplasia
- CHARGE syndrome
- Calcium requirement in children
- Caput succedaneum versus cephalohaematoma
- Cerebral palsy
- Cervical lymphadenopathy in children
- Childhood injury prevention
- Classification of gestational age and birth weight
- Cleft palate
- Coarctation of the aorta in the newborn
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- Congenital hypothyroidism
- Congenital rubella syndrome
- Congenital toxoplasmosis
- Corrected age and catch-up growth in the preterm infant
- Croup (laryngotracheobronchitis)
- Cyanotic congenital heart disease
- Cystic fibrosis
- Dehydration in children
- Developmental dysplasia of the hip
- Developmental milestones
- Distinguishing muscular dystrophy from central causes of motor delay
- Down syndrome
- Duodenal atresia
- Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18)
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Erythema infectiosum (parvovirus B19)
- Febrile seizure
- Fever without localising signs in young children
- Functional constipation and stool withholding in children
- Global developmental delay
- Hand, foot and mouth disease
- Henoch-Schonlein purpura (IgA vasculitis)
- Herpes simplex infection and gingivostomatitis
- Hirschsprung disease
- Humoral (antibody) immunodeficiency syndromes
- Hyperoxia test in the cyanotic newborn
- Immunisation schedule (Oman EPI)
- Incomplete Kawasaki disease
- Infant feeding and breastfeeding advice
- Infant of a diabetic mother
- Infantile colic
- Infantile haemangioma
- Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
- Inguinal hernia in children
- Intermittent diarrhoea with undigested food in a thriving toddler
- Intestinal malrotation and midgut volvulus
- Intussusception
- Isolated speech and language delay in a toddler
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Kawasaki disease
- Meckel diverticulum
- Meconium ileus
- Meningococcal septicaemia
- Necrotising enterocolitis
- Neonatal jaundice
- Neonatal sepsis (early and late onset)
- Neurofibromatosis type 1
- Neurofibromatosis type 2
- Newborn screening before starting breastfeeding
- Oral rehydration therapy in children
- Paediatric musculoskeletal screening examination
- Patau syndrome (trisomy 13)
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Potter syndrome
- Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes (genomic imprinting)
- Precocious puberty
- Respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn
- Retinopathy of prematurity
- Rickets
- Roseola infantum (exanthem subitum)
- Routine infant vitamin A supplementation in the Oman schedule
- Scarlet fever
- Screen time recommendations for young children
- Seizure in a young infant: choosing the next test
- Severe combined immunodeficiency and DiGeorge syndrome
- Short stature
- Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
- Stridor with drooling in a child: emergency airway priorities
- Sturge-Weber syndrome and port-wine stain
- Teething
- Tetralogy of Fallot and the hypercyanotic spell
- The dysmorphic newborn
- Thumb sucking
- Time for a newborn to regain birth weight
- Timing of introduction of allergenic solid foods
- Toilet training and bladder control
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Transient tachypnoea of the newborn
- Transposition of the great arteries
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Umbilical hernia in children
- Undescended testis
- Urinary tract infection in children
- Viral exanthems of childhood
- Vitamin D supplementation in breastfed infants
- Warning signs of primary immunodeficiency
- Zinc deficiency
Professionalism and Medical Ethics11
- Breaking bad news: what it is and why it must be done
- Clinical risk management
- Correct-site surgery and the Universal Protocol
- Delivering bad news: the ABCDE and SPIKES protocols
- Medication safety and high alert medications
- Patient confidentiality
- Patient safety and the International Patient Safety Goals
- Prevention of inpatient falls
- Principles of medical ethics
- Termination of pregnancy in Islamic jurisprudence
- The ethical debate on termination of pregnancy
Public Health and Communicable Diseases67
- Absolute risk reduction and number needed to treat
- Active pulmonary tuberculosis: when to suspect it
- Acute bloody diarrhoea: identifying the organism
- Acute watery diarrhoea and food poisoning: identifying the organism
- Adverse effects of antituberculous drugs
- African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
- Amoebic liver abscess
- Animal bite and rabies prophylaxis
- Antiviral therapy for herpes zoster
- Ascariasis and common intestinal worms
- Assessment of fever in the returning traveller
- Bacillary dysentery (invasive bacterial diarrhoea)
- Brucellosis
- Caseating granuloma: the histology of tuberculosis
- Chlamydia trachomatis infection
- Chronic fever with weight loss that has not responded to antibiotics
- Dengue fever
- Diagnosis and treatment of active pulmonary tuberculosis
- Diagnostic test performance
- Drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR and XDR)
- Enteric (typhoid) fever
- Extrapulmonary tuberculosis
- Giardiasis
- Gonorrhoea
- HIV opportunistic infections
- HIV: the virus and its two types
- Host-directed therapy in tuberculosis
- Hydatid disease (echinococcosis)
- Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in TB/HIV co-infection
- Incidence and prevalence
- Influenza
- Influenza vaccination
- Laboratory classification of streptococci
- Latent tuberculosis and tuberculin skin testing
- Leishmaniasis
- Lyme disease
- Malaria
- Management of acute infectious diarrhoea
- Measles
- Nucleic acid amplification testing
- Oral candidiasis and hairy leukoplakia as complications of HIV
- P-value and statistical significance
- Partner notification in sexually transmitted infection
- Pertussis (whooping cough)
- Pneumococcal vaccination
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia
- Pre-travel health advice and vaccination
- Prevention and control of brucellosis
- Recombinant versus live zoster vaccine
- Rickettsial infections (typhus group and spotted fever)
- Serological diagnosis of brucellosis
- Sore throat and the Centor criteria
- Sputum AFB smear, NAA testing and culture in pulmonary tuberculosis
- Standard tuberculosis treatment regimen and its duration
- Study design
- Syphilis
- Traveller's diarrhoea
- Trichomoniasis
- Tuberculosis epidemiology in Oman
- Tuberculosis in Oman and the National Tuberculosis Programme
- Tuberculosis: microbiology and pathogenesis after exposure
- Types of vaccine and the immune response they induce
- Vaccination in pregnancy
- Vaccine contraindications in immunocompromised patients
- Varicella (chickenpox)
- Viral haemorrhagic fever in a returned traveller
- WHO End TB Strategy targets
Respiratory39
- Acute asthma exacerbation: severity assessment and emergency management
- Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
- Alveolar-arterial oxygen gradient in the assessment of hypoxaemia
- Asbestosis
- Asthma
- Bronchiectasis
- Bullous myringitis with interstitial pneumonia
- Chest radiograph interpretation: consolidation versus lobar collapse
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Community-acquired pneumonia
- Diffuse parenchymal (interstitial) lung disease
- Evaluation of haemoptysis
- Extubation readiness and the spontaneous breathing trial
- Flail chest
- Foreign body aspiration in a toddler
- Hyperventilation syndrome
- Inhaler drug classes and devices (ICS, SABA, LABA, MART)
- Interpretation of pleural fluid
- Lobectomy versus pneumonectomy
- Management of the common cold
- Massive haemothorax
- Obesity hypoventilation syndrome
- Obstructive sleep apnoea
- Occupational and environmental exposures causing pneumoconiosis
- Occupational and environmental lung disease
- Parapneumonic effusion and empyema
- Pleural effusion and Light's criteria
- Preschool Respiratory Assessment Measure (PRAM) score
- Pulmonary contusion versus ARDS after trauma
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary embolism severity classes and risk-stratified treatment
- Pulmonary function test interpretation
- Reassessment of home oxygen after hospital discharge
- Sarcoidosis
- Septic pulmonary emboli
- Solitary lung mass / pulmonary nodule
- Superior vena cava obstruction
- Tension pneumothorax
- Theophylline toxicity
Screening (National/International)35
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening
- Adult health check and screening
- Anemia screening in children
- Antenatal screening for Down syndrome
- Breast MRI screening in very-high-risk women
- Breast cancer screening with mammography
- Cervical cancer screening
- Colorectal cancer screening and surveillance
- Congenital hypothyroidism newborn screening
- Depression screening in adolescents and adults
- Developmental screening for autism spectrum disorder
- Gestational diabetes screening
- HIV screening of the sexually active adult
- Health screening of newly arrived refugees
- Hepatitis B screening in pregnancy
- Hepatitis C screening
- Hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance in cirrhosis
- Hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance in hepatitis B
- Levels of prevention and population-appropriate screening
- Lipid screening in adults
- Lung cancer screening
- Newborn hearing screening
- Osteoporosis screening with DEXA
- Perinatal depression screening
- Phenylketonuria screening
- Premarital screening
- Prostate cancer screening
- Retinopathy of prematurity screening
- Routine infant haemoglobin screening in the Oman schedule
- Screening for COPD with spirometry
- Screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria
- Screening for diabetic nephropathy
- Screening for type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Transcranial Doppler screening in sickle cell disease
- Vision screening in children
Surgery44
- Abdominal compartment syndrome
- Abdominal wound dehiscence
- Acute appendicitis
- Airway management in trauma
- Amyand hernia
- Anastomotic leak after bowel resection
- Anatomical localisation of a neck swelling
- Antibiotic therapy for purulent skin and soft tissue infection
- Athletic pubalgia (sportsman groin)
- Branchial cyst
- Colorectal cancer resections by tumour site
- Complications of groin hernia repair
- Complications of thyroidectomy
- Criteria for bariatric surgery referral
- Cystic hygroma
- Differentiating subcutaneous swellings
- Distinguishing postoperative ileus from early small-bowel obstruction
- Femoral hernia
- Fluid resuscitation in burns
- Gas gangrene (Clostridium perfringens)
- Groin hernia repair in adults
- Haemorrhagic shock and massive transfusion in trauma
- Hartmann procedure
- Incisional and ventral hernia repair
- Inguinal canal anatomy and hernia type
- Laparoscopic appendicectomy
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
- Local anaesthesia for minor procedures
- Management of a retained bullet
- Management of abdominal trauma
- Management of gallstones
- Necrotising fasciitis: recognition and diagnosis
- Perioperative management of chronic anticoagulation
- Phases of wound healing
- Post-cholecystectomy biliary collection
- Postoperative fever
- Primary and secondary survey in trauma
- Skin and soft tissue abscess
- Splenic injury
- Thyroglossal duct cyst
- Timing of suture removal
- Tracheostomy
- Triangles of doom and pain in laparoscopic groin surgery
- Types of stoma and their complications
Toxicology and Emergency Care21
- Acute mountain sickness and high-altitude cerebral oedema
- Agitation in suspected recreational drug use
- Anaphylaxis
- Anticholinergic toxicity with wide-complex tachycardia
- Approach to the poisoned patient
- Biphasic anaphylactic reaction
- Electrical injury
- Gastrointestinal decontamination in poisoning
- Haemodynamic profiles of the four shock types
- Heat stroke
- Hypothermia
- Initial approach to any acutely ill patient
- Iron poisoning
- Opioid overdose
- Organophosphate poisoning
- Paracetamol poisoning
- Principles of antidote therapy
- Salicylate (aspirin) toxicity
- Sepsis and septic shock resuscitation
- Snake bite
- Toxidrome recognition