JMC Human Medicine Exam study guide
JMC Human Medicine Exam · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The JMC Human Medicine Exam is a subject-based assessment used to evaluate a candidate's command of the preclinical and clinical medical sciences taught in a human medicine curriculum. Candidates typically encounter it when applying for admission to a medical programme, seeking credit or advanced standing, or demonstrating readiness for a stage of training. The JMC Human Medicine Exam study guide has 11 sections and about 3,359 words.
01Anatomy: Applied Regional and Clinical Anatomy
Anatomy in this exam tests applied regional and clinical anatomy: anatomical position and planes, osteology and arthrology, muscle compartments, neurovascular bundles, dermatomes and lymphatics, and embryological derivatives. Questions usually present a lesion and ask which structure is injured or which deficit follows.
356 words, about 2 min02Physiology: Homeostasis and System Integration
Physiology tests how normal systems maintain homeostasis: membrane potentials, cardiac output, renal handling, acid-base balance, respiratory gas exchange, endocrine feedback and gastrointestinal secretion. The exam favours calculations and cause-effect reasoning over pure recall.
309 words, about 2 min03Biochemistry: Enzymes, Metabolism and Molecular Disease
Biochemistry tests enzyme kinetics, core metabolic pathways, vitamin cofactors, molecular biology and inborn errors. Questions often give a deficient enzyme and ask for the accumulated substrate, missing product or clinical pattern.
281 words, about 1 min04Pathology: Cell Injury, Inflammation, Neoplasia and Haemodynamics
Pathology tests mechanisms of cell injury, inflammation, neoplasia and haemodynamic disease, plus the interpretation of macroscopic and microscopic findings. The exam rewards linking a morphological pattern to a mechanism and a clinical consequence.
275 words, about 1 min05Pharmacology: Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Dosing
Pharmacology tests pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, dose calculations and clinically important interactions. The exam expects you to predict how absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion change a drug's effect.
303 words, about 2 min06Microbiology: Pathogens, Diagnostics and Antimicrobials
Microbiology tests bacterial structure and staining, culture and identification, virulence and toxins, sterilisation, antimicrobial mechanisms and resistance, virology and basic immunology. Questions often start with a specimen and a clinical syndrome.
283 words, about 1 min07Community Medicine and Public Health: Populations, Screening and Epidemiology
This domain tests population measures, study design, screening, outbreak investigation and health programme indicators. The exam favours calculation and interpretation over definitions alone.
311 words, about 2 min08Internal Medicine: Common Adult Presentations and Emergencies
Internal medicine tests the diagnosis and management of common adult presentations: chest pain, breathlessness, hypertension, diabetes, acute kidney injury, cirrhosis and thyroid disease. The exam emphasises initial investigation and safe first-line treatment.
295 words, about 1 min09Surgery: Trauma, Shock, Sepsis and the Acute Abdomen
Surgery tests preoperative assessment, shock and fluid resuscitation, wound healing, sepsis, trauma and the acute abdomen, including burns and hernia. The exam often presents a patient who needs a prioritised first action.
329 words, about 2 min10Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Pregnancy, Labour and Gynaecological Care
This domain tests antenatal care, hypertensive disorders, diabetes in pregnancy, labour, postpartum haemorrhage, contraception and gynaecological cancer screening. The exam expects safe prioritisation of mother and fetus.
311 words, about 2 min11Paediatrics: Growth, Development and Childhood Illness
Paediatrics tests growth and development, neonatal care, feeding, dehydration, common infections, congenital heart disease and immunisation. Questions often use age-specific normal values and weight-based calculations.
306 words, about 2 min