Post : Assistant Professor in Community Medicine
Department : Medical Education Service
Category Code : 417/2016, 141/2017, 142/2017, 143/2017, 144/2017
Qualification : Medical Post Graduate Degree such as MD/MS + Three years Teaching Experience
Question Paper Code : 17/18
Date of Test : 02-02-2018
- As per the open vial policy of Government of India false statement :
- Any open vial returned from the field has to be used within 48 hours from the date of opening
- Vaccine should not have been frozen
- Only applicable to Hepatitis - B, OPV, DPT, Pentavalent, TT and IPV
- VVM should be stable
- The cut-off BMI for obesity as suggested by WHO for Asian community :
- 20
- 23
- 25
- 30
- The dose of chickenpox vaccine to be given to a 15 year old for full protection :
- 2 doses 6 weeks apart, 0.5 ml subcutaneous
- 2 doses 6 weeks apart, 0.5 ml intramuscular
- Single dose, 0.5 ml subcutaneous
- Single dose, 0.5 ml intramuscular
- Emerging pathogens that could be engineered for mass spread as bioterror weapon is included in :
- Category A bioterror weapon
- Category B bioterror weapon
- Category C bioterror weapon
- Category D bioterror weapon
- The reservoir for MERS-CoV infection is :
- Fruit bats
- Vampire bats
- Camels
- Ardeid birds in Arabian countries
- A mother devolved chicken pox 1 day after delivery of a male baby. Immediate action to be taken :
- Give VZIG to baby
- No need of treatment
- No VZIG give Acyclovir to the baby
- Immediately give vaccine and VZIG to the baby
- Pick the false statement about Ebola infection :
- Dead bodies possess a risk of transmission to others
- Fruit bats are reservoirs
- Fomites can transmit infection
- Caused by Orthopoxvirus
- A child exposed to a case of measles can be protected by :
- Cannot be protected with measles vaccine but requires immunoglobulin
- Can be protected if given vaccine within 72 hours
- Can be protected if given vaccine within 96 hours
- Should be given ribavirin within 48 hours
- Raft shaped eggs are associated with :
- Anopheles
- Culex
- Aedes
- Mansonia
- The agent used for space spraying :
- Pyrethrum
- Malathion
- Abate
- Lindane
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- The effluent generated from the hospital should have a BOD of less than :
- 30 mg/L
- 60 mg/L
- 100 mg/L
- 200 mg/L
- As per the biomedical waste management rules 2016, Government of India discarded medicines should put in :
- Yellow Container
- Black Container
- Blue Container
- Red Container
- The father of public health :
- John Snow
- Louis Pasteur
- Smallpox
- Cholera
- Father of antiseptic surgery :
- Louis Pasteur
- John Snow
- Joseph Lister
- Ignaz Semmelweis
- In the emblem of WHO the staff and the serpent shown is :
- Staff of Auscualpius
- Cadeucius Staff
- Staff of Aaron
- Staff of hygea
- The gross income generated from within the country and also the net income generated from abroad is called as :
- Gross Domestic Product
- Gross National Income
- Purchase Power Parity in Dollars
- HALE
- Ideal bed turnover interval for optimum use of health resources and avoiding MRSA is :
- Slightly positive
- Largely positive
- Slightly negative
- Largely negative
- In a malaria survey in Orissa among 50,000 population, 10,000 slides were examined for malaria. 250 came as positive. Pick the true statement :
- It is a high API area and ABER is adequate
- It is a high API area but ABER is inadequate
- Low API but ABER is inadequate
- API and ABER are 100 and 10%
- The drug of choice for plasmodium falciparum malaria for north eastern states is :
- Chlorquine
- Quinine
- Artemesinin - Sulfadoxine/Pyrimethamine
- Artemether - Lumefantrine
- As per the national framework for malaria elimination in India, category 1 state is :
- States/UT with 0 indigenous cases
- States/UT with API<1 and all districts with API<1
- States/UT with PI<1 but some districts with API>1
- States/UT with API>1
- Percentage of persons examined showing microfilaria in their blood or manifestation or both :
- Microfilaria rate
- Filarial endemicity rate
- Microfilarial density
- Average infestation rate
- The dose of equine rabies immunoglobulin to be given to a person with a weight of 50 kg :
- 2000 IU
- 2500 IU
- 1000 IU
- 3000 IU
- Clinical surveillance period for multibacillary leprosy after treatment is :
- At least every 6 months for 2 years
- At least every 6 months for 5 years
- At least every year for 2 years
- At least every year for 5 years
- All are indirect methods of demography except :
- Life table
- Sisterhood methods
- Hazard models
- Census
- The equivalent number of years in full health that a newborn can expect to live based on current rates of ill health and mortality is :
- HALE
- DALY
- QALY
- PQLI
- The rate in which denominator is not midyear population :
- Proportional mortality rate
- Specific death rate
- Crude death rate
- Crude Marriage rate
- The bias which occurs when patients who have died or recovered will be erroneously excluded, skewing the results towards individuals who are average could be best explained as :
- Berkesonian bias
- Misclassification bias
- Lead time bias
- Neyman bias
- MMR of India is 47/100000 live births. In this MMR is expressed as :
- Rate
- Ratio
- Proportion
- Special rate
- A group of non-diseased doctors were followed up for development of lung cancer. After 20 years investigator noted that number of study subjects in the cohort developed Peripheral vascular disease (PVD). He did a case control study by taking cases as those with PVD and controls from the same cohort. This is :
- It is not an acceptable design as the intended design was a cohort
- It is a block design cohort
- It is a crossover design
- It is a nested design
- In a prospective study of omega 3 fatty acid and colon cancer, of the 8000 given omega 3 fatty acid 8 developed colon cancer and among 6000 not given omega 3 fatty acid 6 developed colon cancer. What is the interpretation?
- Omega 3 fatty acid is protective in colon cancer
- Omega 3 fatty acid has no association with colon cancer
- The study is insufficient to provide any conclusion
- Omega 3 fatty acid is harmful
- A person with fever and history of travel to areas where there are one or more confirmed swine influenza A(H1N1) cases within 7 days is :
- Probable case
- Suspect case
- Confirmed case
- Doubtful case
- 80 year old Mahendaran comes to your OP with mild fever and sore throat during an epidemic of swine flu, action to be taken :
- Tested for H1N1 immediately and given oseltamivir
- Will be given oseltamivir without testing
- No oseltamivir required will be symptomatically treated
- Start him on amantadine
- A 3 year old female child was brought to the casualty with a H/o cough and fever 4 days. O/E weight of the child was 6 kg and RR=45/mt with fever. The child will be classified as :
- Pneumonia
- Severe pneumonia
- Very severe disease
- AURI
- 2 and half year old Anusha has been found to be infected with whooping cough. Her mother
comes to you for advice regarding her 2ND child who is only 25 days old. Advice to be given is :
- Nothing more is required if the mother has been fully vaccinated with DPT
- Hyperimmune globulin
- Erythromycin for kid
- Hyperimmune globulin+Erythromycin
- In an 8 month old child fast breathing is :
- Respiratory rate > 30/minute
- Respiratory rate > 40/minute
- Respiratory rate > 50/minute
- Respiratory rate > 60/minute
- 1% annual risk of infection in TB corresponds to :
- 100 new smear +ve TB/year for 1 lakh general population
- 50 new smear +ve TB/year for 1 lakh general population
- 25 new smear +ve TB/year for 1 lakh general population
- 125 new smear +ve TB/year for 1 lakh general population
- Pick the true statement about demographic transition :
- Animal model of growth is seen in stage 1
- Population explosion is seen in stage 1
- High child dependency in stage 3
- In declining phase BR is more than death rate
- Census in India is under the ministry of :
- HRD ministry
- Social welfare
- Home affairs
- Labour ministry
- A village in Andhra Pradesh has 20% population below 15 years and 10% above 65 years. Total population of the village is 10,000. Total Dependency ratio of the community is :
- 34%
- 30%
- 43%
- Cannot be calculated from data
- A community has a population of 10,000. Children between 0-6 is 2000. Literate persons above 7 years are 6000. Effective literacy rate is :
- 45%
- 60%
- 75%
- 90%
- In a population which is growing at a very rapid phase the population will double in :
- 70-139 years
- 47-70 years
- 35-47 years
- 15-20 years
- The protocol that envisages prevention of depletion of ozone layer :
- Kentucky Protocol
- Melbourne Protocol
- Montreal Protocol
- Kyoto Protocol
- The total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused by an individual, event, organisation, product expressed as CO2 equivalent :
- Carbon footprint
- Carbon credit
- Carbon accounting
- Carbon hole
- The sustainable development goal associated with gender equality is :
- Goal 1
- Goal 3
- Goal 5
- Goal 7
- The method of cleaning sand bed in rapid sand filter is :
- Cleaning
- Scraping
- Back washing
- Back scraping
- In determining the amount of bleaching powder required for a well using horrocks apparatus, it was found that blue colour was seen in the 3RD cup. Water in the well is 4550 litres. The amount of bleaching powder required is :
- 60 grams
- 12 grams
- 120 grams
- 30 grams
- Pick the true statement about measles vaccine :
- Vaccine loses 25% of potency when kept at 20 degrees for 1 hour
- Both vaccine and diluent must be frozen
- Best immunological response to measles vaccine is seen in children at 12 months
- 2ND dose of measles vaccine should be introduced in a population with MCV1 coverage <50 li="">
- Pick the true statement about antigenic changes in influenza virus :
- Drift causes pandemics
- Shift is due to point mutation
- Shift is a gradual antigenic change over time
- Most antigenically stable among influenza viruses is Type C
- The vaccine used for prevention of rubella :
- SA 14-14-2
- RA27/3
- A/California/7
- 17D vaccine
- Rema aged 3 years presents to your OP with diarrhea of 2 days duration. She is drinking fluids. Her weight is 10 kg. Her requirements of ORS in the 1ST 4 hours is :
- 300 ml
- 350 ml
- 500 ml
- 750 ml
- The dose of hepatitis B immunoglobulin to be given to a sexual contact of hepatitis B patient
is :
- Not given, Give vaccine since sexual route
- 0.01 ml/kg
- 0.03 ml/kg
- 0.06 ml/kg
- The dose of Zinc to be given to child with diarrhea aged 9 months is :
- 10 mg for 5 days
- 10 mg for 14 days
- 20 mg for 5 days
- 20 mg for 14 days
- Hook worm infection may be regarded as a potential danger when Chandler’s index is :
- Below 150
- 150-200
- 200-250
- 250-300
- The total osmolarity and concentration of sodium in low osmolarity ORS is :
- 250 m mol/ltr and 100 m mol/ltr
- 245 m mol/ltr and 50 m mol/ltr
- 311 m mol/ltr and 90 m mol/ltr
- 245 m mol/ltr and 75 m mol/ltr
- Children vaccinated with measles vaccine from a sub center developed abrupt onset of fever, vomiting and diarrhea 4 hours after immunization. During investigation of AEFI it was found that vaccine was used 5 hours after reconstitution. This can be classified as :
- Vaccine product related reaction
- Vaccine quality related reaction
- Immunisation error related
- Immunization anxiety related
- Likert scale is :
- Nominal scale
- Ordinal scale
- Interval scale
- Ratio scale
- The chances of passing a congenital defect A by affected parents to their children is 0.15. They plan to have 2 children. What is the probability of both the children having the genetic disease?
- 0.3
- 0.45
- 0.0225
- 0.225
- The odds of an event occurring is 5. What is the probability of that event occurring?
- 0.83
- 0.75
- 0.2
- 0.05
- When the relative deviate in a standard normal curve is −2 the proportion of area from the middle of the curve to the designated value is :
- 34.1%
- 47.7%
- 68.2%
- 95.4%
- When mean of a distribution is 85 and median is 98 the distribution is :
- Symmetrical
- Positively Skewed
- Negatively Skewed
- SD needed to find out Skewedness
- A case control study done to prove association of fatty food intake and breast cancer showed an odds ratio of 4.3 (95% C.I-0.9-8.5). It means :
- Fatty food intake causes breast cancer
- Fatty food intake protects against breast cancer
- No significant relation between fatty food intake and breast cancer
- Cannot be found out with limited data
- AUDIT test is used in the screening for :
- Smoking
- Alcohol
- Non alcoholic beverages
- Trans fats
- Supranational lab for Tuberculosis in India is :
- National Tuberculosis Institute (NTI), Bangalore
- National Institute of TB & Respiratory Diseases (NIRTD), New Delhi
- Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC), Bhubaneswar
- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT), Chennai
- The false statement about end TB strategy :
- 95% reduction in TB deaths by 2035 compared to 2015
- 90% reduction in TB incidence rate by 2035 compared to 2015
- TB affected families facing catastrophic costs to 50% by 2030
- TB affected families facing catastrophic costs to 0% by 2030
- Regarding intradermal vaccination against polio using IPV, schedule followed in Kerala :
- Single dose i.d at 6 weeks
- Single dose i.d at 14 weeks
- 2 doses i.d at 6 and 10 weeks
- 2 doses i.d at 6 and 14 weeks
- In case of adequate acute flaccid paralysis surveillance Non polio AFP rate in a population should be :
- >1/10,000
- >1/1,00,000
- <1/10,000
- <1/1,00,000
- The current vaccine against dengue is :
- Monovalent vaccine
- Bivalent vaccine
- Trivalent vaccine
- Tetravalent vaccine
- Average number of children a woman would have if she were to pass through her reproductive years bearing children at the same rates as the women now in each age group is :
- General fertility rate
- Age specific fertility rate
- Gross reproductive rate
- Total fertility rate
- In the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education the nutritional supplement given to upper primary level is :
- 700 calories and 20 grams of protein
- 500 calories and 15 grams of protein
- 300 calories and 12 grams of protein
- 800 calories and 20 grams of protein
- Current best measure of protein quality as per FAO and WHO :
- Amino acid score
- Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score (PDCAAS)
- Digestible Indispensable Amino Acid Score (DIAAS)
- Protein efficacy ratio
- The deficiencies in milk are :
- Iron and Vitamin C
- Calcium and Vitamin C
- Iron and Vitamin D
- Iron and Vitamin B12
- Energy requirements of a person decreases by __________ every decade after age of 60.
- 2%
- 5%
- 7%
- 10%
- The Z score weight for height of a child is −2.65. He is :
- Normal
- Mild stunting
- Severe wasting
- Mild wasting
- Number of measles vaccine required to immunize the target children in a town of 5000 with a birth rate of 30/1000 and a IMR of 100/1000 live births assuming wastage of 30% is :
- 135
- 150
- 190
- 270
- Percentage of people using, at least one method of contraception, regardless of the method used is :
- Couple protection rate
- Contraceptive prevalence rate
- Effective couple protection rate
- Overall couple protection rate
- A randomized controlled trial comparing efficacy of 2 drugs showed that difference is statistically significant with a P value of < 0.001 but in reality the 2 drugs do not differ in their efficacy. This is an example of :
- Alfa error
- Beta error
- Theta error
- Gamma error
- An investigator wants to study the association between maternal intake of Protein (High, moderate and Low) and birth weight of children in grams. The statistical test to be used is :
- Kruskal wallis test
- Unpaired t-test
- ANOVA
- Ranks test
- Correlation coefficient of GFR and Serum creatinine was found to be 0.8. What percentage in variation of Serum creatinine can be explained with GFR?
- 16%
- 80%
- 64%
- 88%
- Funnel plot is used analyse :
- Recall bias
- Confounding bias
- Publication bias
- Meta-analysis
- Pick the false statement about VDPV in polio :
- I-VDPV is a bigger threat that c-VDPV in eradication of polio
- c-VDPV’s are largely due to type 2 polio virus
- Consistent with prolonged replication or transmission
- Are diagnosed with rRT-PCR
- Which was the first Indian Bank to introduce the Voluntary retirement Scheme?
- State Bank of India
- Punjab National Bank
- ICICI
- Lord Krishna Bank
- Which State is known as the Jewel of India?
- Manipur
- Assam
- Kerala
- Kashmir
- Indian Newspaper day is observed on :
- January 28
- January 27
- January 26
- January 29
- Who was called the ‘‘Lincoln’’ of Kerala for steering socio-economically and educationally backward communities to the forefront?
- Pandit Karuppan
- Vakkom Maulavi
- Chattampi Swamikal
- Narayana Guru
- The original constitution had :
- 10 parts, 5 schedules 310 Articles
- 12 parts, 5 schedules 309 Articles
- 22 parts, 8 schedules 395 Articles
- 21 parts, 8 schedules 359 Articles
- In Which Branch of Medicine Chattampi Swamikal acquired knowledge :
- Ayurveda
- Unani
- Siddha
- Homeopathy
- Which part of the Constitution of India is related to the ‘Citizenship’?
- III
- II
- I
- IV
- The Autobiography of India’s first female judge, Anna Chandy :
- Atma nombaram
- Ente Jeevitham
- Ente Katha
- Atmakatha
- The Venue of Paliyam Satyagraha :
- Chendamangalam
- Vakkom
- Guruvayur
- Pampady
- Kuriakose Alias Chavara was beautified in :
- 1985
- 1987
- 1986
- 1988
- The first Editor of ‘Mithavadi’ :
- C.K. Krishnan
- Moorkoth Kumaran
- Kumaran Asan
- P. Kesavan
- In which year was the Mid-day Meals programme implemented?
- 2005
- 2003
- 2006
- 2004
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- Which Article of the Indian Constitution was interpreted as discriminatory against Jammu and Kashmir Women?
- Article 34
- Article 35A
- Article 370
- Article 380
- The Author of ‘Kavi Bharatham’ :
- Kodungaloor Kunjikuttan Thampuram
- Chandu Menon
- Keshav Dev
- Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran
- The English Philanthropist who introduced the first education centre in Kerala :
- Herman Gundert
- Rev. Meed
- Dr. Burnadeen Bachinelli
- Edward Brinnon
- The Sculptor of the Statue of Ayyankali at Vellayambalam in Thiruvananthapuram :
- Ezra David
- Kanai Kunju Raman
- Balan Nambiar
- V.J. Robert
- The date of the Temple Entry Proclamation in Travancore :
- 12 November 1928
- 12 November 1947
- 12 November 1936
- 12 November 1951
- The social reformer of Kerala who opened his family temple for everyone, irrespective of caste distinction :
- E.V. Ramaswami
- Narayana Guru
- Mannathu Padmanabhan
- Ayya Vaikundar
- Who was the president of the first exclusive women session of the NSS in 1929?
- Lalitha Prabhu
- Kuttimalu Amma
- K. Devayani
- Thottekkattu Madhavi Amma
- The literary figure and social reformer who was awarded the Kendra Sahithya Akademi Award in 1976 and Kerala Sahithya Academy Award in 1977 :
- O.N.V. Kurup
- Lalithambika Antherjanam
- Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
- Balamani Amma
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Mid day meals 1995 alle year?
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