General Surgery

Explore 30 topics from the NMC CBME Curriculum 2024. This curriculum is a study map, not an exam weighting.

• Metabolic response to injury
• Shock
• Blood and blood components
• Burns
• Wound healing and wound care
• Surgical infections
• Surgical Audit and Research
• Ethics
• Investigation of surgical patient
• Pre, intra and post- operative management.
• Anaesthesia and pain management
• Nutrition and fluid therapy
• Transplantation
• Basic Surgical Skills
• Biohazard disposal
• Minimally invasive General Surgery
• Trauma
• Skin and subcutaneous tissue
• Developmental anomalies of face, mouth and jaws
• Oropharyngeal cancer
• Disorders of salivary glands
• Endocrine General Surgery: Thyroid and parathyroid
• Adrenal glands
• Pancreas
• Breast
• Cardio-thoracic General Surgery- Chest - Heart and Lungs
• Vascular and lymphatic disorders
• Abdomen
• Urinary System
• Penis, Testis and scrotum