Syllabus & Scheme of APPSC Drug Inspector Exam| DI Exam

Syllabus

GENERAL STUDIES & MENTAL ABILITY

1. General Science – Contemporary developments in Science and Technology and their implications including matters of every day observation and experience, as may be expected of a well-educated person who has not made a special study of any scientific discipline.
2. Current events of national and international importance.
3. History of India – emphasis will be on broad general understanding of the subject in its social, economic, cultural and political aspects with a focus on AP Indian National Movement.
4. World Geography and Geography of India with a focus on AP.
5. Indian polity and Economy – including the country’s political system- rural development
– Planning and economic reforms in India.
6. Mental ability – reasoning and inferences.

Pharmacy SUBJECT

• Importance of various pharmacopeia with special reference to Indian pharmacopeia, British Pharmacopeia, Unites States pharmacopeia and international Pharmacopeias.
• Sources of drugs: Plant, Animal, Mineral, Synthetic and Biotechnological drugs.
• Preparation of Infusions, Decoctions, Tinctures, Solutions, Soft and Dry extracts.
  Introduction and classification of various pharmaceutical dosage forms.
• Various parts of “Prescription” handling of prescriptions preliminary knowledge of important Latin terms useful in the interpretation of prescription and their translation into English.
• Posology: Calculation of dosage for infants, children adults and elderly persons.Alcohol dilutions, Proof spirit, Isotonic solutions, Displacement value.
• A brief outline of communicable diseases, their causative agents, modes of transmission and their prevention (Chickenpox, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Filaria, Leprosy, Sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS).
• First Aid: Emergency treatment of shock, snake-bites, burns, poisoning and fractures.
• Classification of microbes their structure and identification. Bacterial growth, nutritional requirements and staining.

• Contamination of pharmaceuticals in hospital and community environments by microbes.
• Sterilization: Definition, types, procedure and testing.
• Sterilization of materials, equipment and utensils used in hospitals, centralized and decentralised sterilization. The drug distribution system in hospitals for out-patients and in- patients.
• Opthalmic preparations: formulations, methods of preparation, containers and evaluation.
• Collection, processing, storage and evaluation of blood, blood products and plasma substitutes
• Surgical products: Surgical cotton, surgical gauzes, bandages, sutures, ligatures and catguts.
• Definition and types of incompatibilities (Physical-Chemical and Therapeutic), correction of incompatibilities.
• Anatomy and physiology of Cardio-vascular system and related commondisorders like hypertension, hypotension, angina, myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure.
• Anatomy and physiology of Digestive system and related disorders like peptic ulcers, constipation, diarrhea and jaundice.
• Functions of diferent parts of Brain and spinal cord, Neurohumoral transmission in the central nervous system and autonomic nervous system.
• Drugs acting on central nervous systems: Sadatives, hypnotics, anti-anxietyagents, centrally acting muscle relaxants, anti-epileptics, analgesic, anti-pyretic andantiinfaammatory drugs.
• Antigens, anti-bodies, antigen-anti body reactions, hypersensitivity active and passive immunity types of vaccines.
• Historical development of antibiotics. Isolation of fermentation products with special reference to pencillins and tetracyclines.
• Carbohydrate metabolism: Glycolysis, glucogenesis, glucogenolysis, glycogen formation, pentose phosphate pathway, uronic acid pathway, abnormalities of carbohydrate metabolism.

• Introduction and principles of anti-microbial therapy Cotrimoxazole,fluorauinelones, newer penicillins, broad-spectrum antibiotics, cephalosporins, macrolides, anti-tubercular, anti-leprotic, antifungal and antiviral drugs.
• Anti protozoan and anthelmintic drugs. Chemotherapy of neoplastic diseases.
• Salient features of Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and Rules, 1945 with special reference to Duties and powers of Inspectors. Composition and functions of statutory bodies.
• Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic substances Act, 1985 with special reference to procurement and utilization of dosage forms.