FMGE study guide
FMGE · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE), also called the Screening Test, is the licensing gateway for Indian citizens who earned their primary medical qualification abroad and want to register and practise in India. It is a computer-based test of single-best-answer multiple-choice questions delivered in English, and it is set at the standard of the Indian undergraduate medical curriculum rather than at the level of any particular foreign university. The FMGE study guide has 10 sections and about 2,876 words.
01Pre-clinical Subjects: Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry
The three pre-clinical subjects supply roughly a quarter of FMGE's 300 questions, and they appear in clinically dressed form rather than as pure description. Anatomy concentrates on the brachial plexus, inguinal canal, femoral triangle, cranial nerve lesions and cross-sectional relations; physiology on renal clearance, acid–base balance, cardiac mechanics and gas exchange; biochemistry on rate-limiting enzymes, vitamin deficiencies and inborn errors.
310 words, about 2 min02Pathology
Pathology has one of the highest question densities in FMGE after medicine. General pathology supplies cell injury, inflammation, hemodynamics and neoplasia; systemic pathology supplies anemia classification, nephritic versus nephrotic disease, hepatitis and tumor markers.
299 words, about 1 min03Pharmacology
Pharmacology in FMGE is prescriber's pharmacology: which drug, at what dose, by which mechanism, with which predictable toxicity and which antidote. Kinetics calculations and adverse-effect matching appear regularly.
269 words, about 1 min04Microbiology
Microbiology questions cluster around organism identification from a short vignette, culture media, toxin mechanisms, hepatitis and HIV serology, and sterilization parameters. Gram stain logic: Gram-positive cocci in clusters = staphylococci (catalase positive; S.
277 words, about 1 min05Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
Forensic medicine is a small but high-yield domain, largely factual: timing of death, wound interpretation, asphyxial deaths, poisoning syndromes, and consent and negligence law. Postmortem changes: rigor mortis begins in 1–2 hours, is complete by about 12 hours and passes off by 24–36 hours; livor mortis fixes by 6–8 hours.
307 words, about 2 min06Community Medicine (Preventive and Social Medicine)
PSM rewards measurement: study designs, screening statistics, national programme targets, demography and environmental health. Numeric questions are frequent and quick to score.
264 words, about 1 min07Internal Medicine (including allied specialties)
Medicine is the largest FMGE domain. Expect acute coronary syndrome and heart failure, asthma versus COPD, arterial blood gases, diabetes and thyroid disease, acute kidney injury, stroke and meningitis.
283 words, about 1 min08Surgery (including allied specialties)
Surgery tests resuscitation first, then diagnosis: shock and trauma, burns, acute abdomen, hernia, breast and thyroid lumps, and urological emergencies. ATLS sequence: airway with cervical spine control, breathing, circulation, disability, exposure - treat the greatest threat to life first.
296 words, about 1 min09Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Obstetrics dominates: antenatal dating, hypertensive disease, labor and its complications, postpartum hemorrhage and contraception. Gynecology adds PCOS, fibroids, endometriosis and cervical screening.
276 words, about 1 min10Paediatrics
Paediatrics is weighted toward neonatology, growth and development, nutrition and dehydration, immunization, and acute respiratory illness. APGAR at 1 and 5 minutes: Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration.
295 words, about 1 min