The NMC curriculum list, reproduced exactly, plus the editions residents actually read in 2026 — with journals, a year-wise reading plan, and the references you will need for your thesis and exit practical.
These 10 titles are reproduced as they appear in the National Medical Commission curriculum document for Infectious Disease — spelling and abbreviations included. Treat it as the scope anchor, not as a shopping list.
Source: National Medical Commission curriculum document for Infectious Disease
The books most residents actually buy. These are the editions in circulation now, with a note on whether each is something you read through, keep as a reference, or open only for the viva.
Journal club and the recent-advances parts of the theory paper come from here. You do not need all of them — follow one Indian and two international titles properly.
Three years of superspecialty training goes faster than it sounds, and most of it is spent on the floor. The order below is what works for most DM Infectious Disease residents.
Read Schlossberg or Mandell syndrome by syndrome with the consult service, spend structured time in the microbiology laboratory with Koneman's, and learn the NTEP and NACO programme guidelines. Register the thesis protocol.
Work through Mandell systematically by organism group, add Hunter's and Guerrant for tropical disease, and study Kucers and Sanford for antimicrobial therapeutics. Take on stewardship and infection-control responsibilities; collect thesis data.
Revise Mandell's high-yield chapters, work through IDSA and ICMR guidelines end to end, and drill the microbiology, parasitology and stewardship stations weekly alongside long-case practice. Submit the thesis.
Protocol, methodology and reporting standards examiners expect you to have followed.
Cases, spotters and stations that come up again and again in the exit exam.
DM Infectious Diseases is a three-year course after MD/DNB in General Medicine, Paediatrics or Microbiology depending on the institution. The NMC guidelines specify four theory papers of 100 marks each with clinical, practical and viva voce, and an accepted thesis is required before appearing. The practical is distinctive in pairing clinical cases with hands-on microbiology, parasitology and antimicrobial susceptibility interpretation stations. Note that NMC has issued both an original and a revised DM Infectious Diseases document; the revised version adds Fundamentals of HIV Medicine 2021 to the reading list.
The National Medical Commission curriculum for Infectious Disease lists 10 titles, beginning with Mandell, G.L., Bennett, J.E., Dolin, R. Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone.. The full list is reproduced on this page exactly as it is published.
Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases by Bennett, Dolin, Blaser (eds) is the usual anchor. The definitive ID text and the first entry on the NMC list.
DM Infectious Disease is a superspecialty course taken after a broad-specialty MD, MS or DNB, so the reading is narrower and deeper. The broad-specialty texts are assumed knowledge by the time you start.
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