Below is the current list of 100 free obstetrics and gynaecology thesis topics for MS, MD and DNB candidates. Each title uses a cross-sectional, observational, ultrasonographic or comparative design that a postgraduate can complete from women already attending the antenatal clinic, labour ward and gynaecology outpatient department, without prospective follow-up to delivery. Every topic on this list of OBG thesis topics generates a complete obstetrics and gynaecology protocol and obstetrics and gynaecology synopsis in editable format. For more topics you can avail the service of premium Obstetrics and Gynaecology thesis topics.
Last reviewed and updated: August 2026
📌 Updated for 2026–2027 MS and MD Obstetrics and Gynaecology admissions
This obstetrics and gynaecology thesis topic list is updated for the 2026–27 academic cycle. Topics are reviewed against recent dissertations, examiner preferences, feasibility in Indian medical colleges, and publication trends in the speciality.
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Obstetrics and gynaecology residency across the Gulf carries a mandatory research requirement, and the equivalent of an Indian synopsis is the research proposal submitted to your IRB before a research project begins. The format differs from the Indian one: it additionally requires a Gantt chart, a budget and resources section, and a Declaration of Helsinki statement.
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University graduate programmes generally require a full research proposal of roughly 6,000 to 10,000 words, with an extended literature review, a theoretical framework and a detailed methodology chapter — considerably longer and deeper than a residency proposal. These are written individually, by a medical doctor, with no artificial intelligence generation and no plagiarism, and revised until your supervisor accepts them.
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An obstetrics and gynaecology protocol is judged on internal consistency: the research question, objectives, methodology and statistical plan must all describe the same study. The primary objective should be a single measurable endpoint — one association, one prevalence, one comparison — with everything else demoted to secondary objectives.
Gestational age is the variable that decides whether an obstetric dissertation holds together, and it must be defined before anything else. State how it is established: a certain last menstrual period, a first-trimester ultrasound scan, or the earliest available scan — and which takes precedence when they disagree. State the acceptable discrepancy beyond which the scan is used. Dating from a third-trimester scan is unreliable and cannot be used to define gestational age in a study that then measures growth against it, since the reasoning becomes circular. Where women present unbooked with no early scan and no reliable dates, say whether they are excluded or how they are handled.
Name every diagnostic criterion with its source and version, because several differ materially in Indian practice. State which criteria define pre-eclampsia and its severe features; which test and threshold define gestational diabetes, since single-step and two-step approaches classify different women; which criteria define polycystic ovary syndrome and how many features are required; the haemoglobin thresholds defining anaemia in pregnancy and their source; the classification used for abnormal uterine bleeding; the staging system for gynaecological malignancy; and the system used to grade prolapse. For ultrasonography, state the machine and transducer, who performs the scan and their experience, the technique used to measure amniotic fluid index, the biometric parameters and the reference chart used to derive estimated foetal weight. Doppler studies must name the vessel, the waveform indices, the angle of insonation and the reference ranges applied.
Inclusion and exclusion criteria are written for women and must state parity, gestational age window, and whether multiple pregnancies, foetal anomalies and pre-existing medical disorders are excluded where they confound.
The synopsis is the condensed document of two to four pages — title, introduction, aim and objectives, brief methodology, sample size and references — submitted for registration of the dissertation topic. The protocol is the expanded version of twelve to twenty pages carrying the full review of literature, detailed methodology including gestational age determination, diagnostic criteria and ultrasonographic technique, statistical plan, study timeline and annexures including the patient information sheet, consent form, data collection proforma and a copy of any symptom or quality-of-life instrument used.
In practice the synopsis is extracted from the protocol rather than written separately, which is faster and produces a more coherent document. Check your university's prescribed proforma before submission, since rejections on formatting grounds are common and entirely avoidable.
Prevalence studies — gestational diabetes, anaemia, thyroid dysfunction, prolapse, dysmenorrhoea — use a proportion-based calculation from a comparable published study, with the desired absolute precision and confidence level, citing the source. Comparative studies of a laboratory or biometric parameter use the difference in means with the standard deviation from prior literature. Correlation studies use the expected correlation coefficient. Where an ultrasonographic measurement is being evaluated against histopathology, as in endometrial thickness against endometrial histology, the calculation must rest on expected sensitivity or specificity together with the expected prevalence of the abnormality.
Name the tests rather than promising that data will be analysed. Comparison between two groups uses the independent t-test or the Mann-Whitney U test with a stated normality test; comparison across severity grades calls for analysis of variance or the Kruskal-Wallis test with a post-hoc comparison; proportions use the chi-squared test with Fisher's exact test for small cells. Where a marker is assessed as a severity indicator, receiver operating characteristic analysis with a derived cut-off is expected, and where several maternal factors are assessed against an outcome, name multivariable logistic regression, since parity, age and body mass index confound almost everything in this speciality.
One point specific to your list: comparing clinical with ultrasonographic estimation of foetal weight, or one dating parameter with another, is an agreement question, not a correlation question. Report Bland-Altman analysis with limits of agreement and mean percentage error rather than a correlation coefficient alone — two methods can correlate strongly while differing systematically by two hundred grams, which is exactly what such a study should detect.
Start with your antenatal and outpatient registers. Pre-eclampsia, anaemia, abnormal uterine bleeding, leiomyoma and infertility accrue readily in almost every department. Placental abruption, placenta praevia, eclampsia and endometrial carcinoma present far less often, and a study needing sixty such women may not accrue within two years.
Then check scan access. A large share of the topics above depend on ultrasonography, and whether you can scan the women yourself or must rely on radiology reports changes the design entirely. If you scan them, state your training; if radiology reports, you cannot claim standardised measurement. Finally, confirm the gap: profile studies of pre-eclampsia and anaemia in pregnancy are heavily published in India, so your question needs a comparison or marker that comparable centres have not already reported.
Cross-sectional observational and analytical designs account for the large majority of accepted dissertations. Clinical and laboratory profile studies of a defined condition, prevalence studies within an antenatal or gynaecology population, association studies between a marker and disease severity at presentation, and comparative designs contrasting two groups of women are all well established.
Prospective cohort designs following women to delivery are traditional in this speciality but consume most of the available time and lose participants who deliver elsewhere. Randomised trials of an obstetric intervention require trial registration and closer scrutiny. Neither is necessary: every topic listed above captures data at a single point.
Bring three to five shortlisted titles rather than one, since guides frequently rule out a topic on grounds you could not have known — an ongoing departmental study, a referral pattern that has changed, an assay no longer available in-house.
Settle four things in that meeting: annual case volume for your condition, whether you will perform the ultrasonography yourself and who will validate your measurements, which investigations are needed beyond routine antenatal care and who funds them, and which journal the eventual paper is aimed at.
Yes, and it is usually the wiser choice at postgraduate level. Every topic listed above measures its variables at a single encounter — at presentation, at a defined gestational age window, or at admission — so no participant is lost when she delivers at another hospital, which is the commonest reason obstetric dissertations end with incomplete data. Where severity is studied, phrase the objective as severity at presentation rather than as an outcome, because a cross-sectional design cannot establish what happened afterwards.
The synopsis is the condensed two to four page document submitted for topic registration. The protocol is the full document of twelve to twenty pages containing the detailed review of literature, methodology with gestational age determination, diagnostic criteria and ultrasonographic technique, statistical plan, timeline and annexures. The synopsis is normally extracted from the completed protocol.
Full institutional ethics committee approval before any data collection, with written informed consent. Four points need explicit attention.
Pregnant women are treated as a vulnerable group in national ethical guidance, so the protocol must state that the study poses no additional risk to the woman or the foetus, and that any investigation beyond routine antenatal care is named and justified.
Consent must not be taken during labour or an emergency admission where an unhurried discussion is impossible. State when and where consent is obtained, and that declining does not affect the care received.
Adolescent participants — and three of the topics above recruit adolescent girls or teenage pregnancies — need consent from a parent or guardian together with assent, with the age at which assent is sought stated. Where a study involves minors and pregnancy, take advice on the applicable legal reporting position before submission rather than after.
A defined referral pathway is required wherever screening may identify a problem: antenatal depression or anxiety screening, cervical cytology, or an unexpected ultrasonographic anomaly. State who is informed, how quickly, and that the woman is referred into clinical care rather than simply recorded as a data point. Ethics committees look for this explicitly.
Name them all, with the issuing body and year, and be aware that in this speciality the choice changes who qualifies. Gestational diabetes is the clearest example: single-step and two-step testing approaches, with different glucose loads and thresholds, identify substantially different proportions of the same antenatal population, so a prevalence figure is uninterpretable without knowing which was applied — state the test, the load, the timing and every threshold. The same applies to the criteria defining pre-eclampsia and its severe features, the number of features required for polycystic ovary syndrome and which combination, the haemoglobin cut-offs for anaemia in pregnancy and their source, and the staging system and edition used for gynaecological malignancy. Where your institution follows a national programme protocol that differs from an international guideline, say so and say which you are applying.
Substantially. A PhD proposal typically runs 6,000 to 10,000 words and carries an extended critical literature review, a theoretical framework, a detailed methodology chapter and a discussion of expected contribution to the field. An MS or MD synopsis is a two to four page registration document. The research question can be the same; the depth expected is not.
Most universities require registration within six to nine months of joining. Shortlist in the first two months, finalise with your guide by the third, and file for ethics clearance immediately afterwards. Protocols recruiting pregnant women or adolescents attract closer scrutiny and may go through a second round of queries, so build that into your timeline, and secure radiology or pathology cooperation in writing at the same time.
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