Read This First: Medicine for NEET PG — What Is Tested and How to Use This Playlist
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Medicine is the backbone of NEET PG: long clinical stems, investigation-of-choice and next-step questions, ECGs and X-rays. The paper has 180 questions, marked +4 for a correct answer and −1 for a wrong one. No official count of Medicine questions is published, so any figure you read online is an estimate. We treat it as a top-tier subject.
The Exam in One Table
Feature | NEET PG | Source |
Questions | 180 MCQs (200 until 2025) | NEET PG 2026 bulletin, as reported |
Time | 3 hours 30 minutes | NEET PG 2026 bulletin, as reported |
Marking | +4 correct, −1 wrong, 0 unattempted | NBEMS bulletin |
Sections | Five time-bound sections (A–E), 42 minutes each | NBEMS bulletin (2025 rules) |
That is about 70 seconds a question. Long Medicine stems eat time: read the last line first, then hunt for the clue.
What the Curriculum Covers
The NMC curriculum (CBME 2024) gives General Medicine 29 topics and 525 competencies. Each article lists the competency codes (GM) it covers.
Curriculum area | What you will study here |
Cardiovascular | Heart failure, valves, ischaemic heart disease, ECG and arrhythmias, hypertension |
Respiratory and infection | Pneumonia, asthma and COPD, tuberculosis, pleura and lung, tropical fevers, HIV, sepsis and CNS infection |
Abdomen and kidney | Liver disease, GI bleeding, diarrhoea, kidney failure, fluids and acid–base |
Endocrine and metabolic | Diabetes, thyroid, adrenal, pituitary, calcium, obesity and lipids |
Blood, joints, nerves | Anaemia and haematology, rheumatology, stroke, headache and seizures, movement and neuromuscular disease |
Emergencies and more | Poisoning, snakebite, oncology essentials, geriatrics |
All 29 Articles in Reading Order
This article is number 0. "Live" articles are published; the rest follow in this order, system by system. Pathology and Pharmacology playlists cover the mechanisms and drugs behind each topic.
# | Article | CBME | Status |
0 | Read this first (this article) | all | Live |
1 | Heart failure and valvular heart disease | GM1 | Live |
2 | Ischaemic heart disease and ACS | GM2 | Live |
3 | ECG and arrhythmias | GM1–2 | Live |
4 | Hypertension | GM8 | Live |
5 | Pneumonia and respiratory infections | GM3 | Live |
6 | Asthma, COPD, respiratory failure | GM28 | Live |
7 | Tuberculosis | GM27 | Live |
8 | Pleura, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary embolism | GM3, 28 | Live |
9 | Fever and tropical infections | GM4 | Live |
10 | HIV infection | GM6 | Live |
11 | Sepsis, CNS infections, tetanus, rabies, COVID-19 | GM26 | Live |
12 | Liver disease | GM5 | Live |
13 | GI bleeding, peptic ulcer, IBD | GM15 | Live |
14 | Diarrhoea, malabsorption, pancreatitis | GM16 | Live |
15 | Acute kidney injury and CKD | GM10 | Live |
16 | Fluids, electrolytes, acid–base | GM23 | Live |
17 | Diabetes mellitus and emergencies | GM11 | Live |
18 | Thyroid, adrenal, pituitary, calcium | GM12 | Live |
19 | Obesity, lipids, metabolic syndrome | GM14 | Live |
20 | Anaemia and haematology | GM9 | Live |
21 | Rheumatology | GM7 | Live |
22 | Stroke | GM18 | Live |
23 | Headache and seizures | GM17, 20 | Live |
24 | Movement, neuromuscular disease, dementia | GM19 | Live |
25 | Poisoning | GM22 | Live |
26 | Snakebite and envenomation | GM21 | Live |
27 | Oncology essentials | GM13 | Live |
28 | Geriatrics and community medicine for physicians | GM25, 29 | Live |
How You Will Be Asked
Question style | Example | How to prepare |
Long clinical vignette | History, signs and tests ending in 'most likely diagnosis' | Find the one decisive clue first |
Investigation of choice | Best first test or confirmatory test | Learn first test vs gold standard |
Management step | Next best step in an emergency | Know the order of steps, not just the drug |
Image or tracing | ECG strip, chest X-ray pattern, clinical photo | Use the diagrams in each article |
Indian protocol | National programme or ICMR workflow rule | Learn the Indian guideline where one exists |
How to Use This Playlist
Read the article, then try Test Yourself. Questions are original and in the exam's style; they are not past papers.
Use Flashcards daily and the Memory Hooks for lists.
Each article has a diagram: ECG patterns, algorithms or look-alike tables.
How we check facts: every claim is checked against a named reference listed under Sources: the MSD Manual Professional Edition, Indian guidance (ICMR Standard Treatment Workflows, NTEP, NACO and other national programmes), WHO and the US National Cancer Institute. Every practice question's answer is matched to a sentence in those sources. We do not reuse textbook or coaching text. A doctor has not yet reviewed these articles. If you spot an error, please tell us.
Sources
Facts in this article were checked against these documents.
NEET-PG 2025 Information Bulletin — National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences, 2025 (link)
NEET PG 2026 exam pattern changed — number of questions reduced from 200 to 180 (quotes the 2026 bulletin) — Medical Dialogues, 2026 (link)
Competency Based Undergraduate Curriculum, General Medicine (GM) — National Medical Commission, 2024