General surgery — 5,000 referenced questions
Five thousand questions across the whole of general surgery, each mapped to the examining body’s own blueprint — the Hong Kong and Singapore membership, the Philippine Board, the Arab Board, and the licensing examinations that Dubai, Qatar and Saudi Arabia set for surgeons trained abroad. One syllabus, because general surgery is general surgery wherever they examine it.
A 44-year-old woman presents with 30 hours of periumbilical pain that has shifted to the right iliac fossa, anorexia and two episodes of vomiting. She is haemodynamically stable, temperature 37.9°C, with localised right iliac fossa tenderness and no guarding elsewhere. White cell count is 14.2 x10^9/L and CRP is 62 mg/L. Contrast-enhanced CT shows a 12 mm appendix with periappendiceal fat stranding, no extraluminal gas, no free fluid and no collection. She has no significant comorbidity, is not pregnant, and asks whether she can avoid an operation because she is due to travel for work. Which is the most appropriate management?
Pick an answer to see why the other four are wrong.
A free account, no card. The same fifty questions in every country.
Each one has its own page with the paper as the examining body publishes it, what the bank covers for it, and an honest note on what we have not been able to source.
The bank
Clinical vignettes across the whole of general surgery, each mapped to the blueprint your examining body publishes. The explanation argues all five options, not just the right one — that is where the marks are lost.
Answer five now →The oral
26 of the examinations in the catalogue question you out loud, and a question bank cannot prepare that. The simulator presents a case, reads what you actually say, questions you on it and marks the exchange — including the mistakes that fail a station on their own.
One station free with an account
See how a station runs →The course
36 chapters and 252 tables, for when a question shows you that you need the idea and not just the option. Staging, landmark trials and the pitfalls examiners like.
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Read a chapter free →New — Dubai, Qatar and Saudi Arabia
Dubai and Qatar set the same sixteen-area paper, and Saudi Arabia does not set a paper at all: its classification in general surgery is an oral, marked on four named domains, with a rule that fails you for one fatal mistake however well the rest went. The syllabuses are published here in full, and the oral simulator runs in that format.
General surgery does not change at the border. The bank is written once against the core of the specialty and then mapped to each examining body’s blueprint, which is why a candidate in Manila and one sitting the Dubai licensing paper study the same questions weighted differently.
Every guideline version and every named trial is resolved against PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov before the question is published. What cannot be resolved is not cited.
Most question banks ask you to pay before you have seen a single explanation. This one does not.
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See full accessThere are 46 examinations in the catalogue. For 8 of them the published syllabus is transcribed domain by domain, with the page of the official document each domain comes from. The rest sit a general surgery examination on the same core, and their page says plainly what we have and have not been able to source.
No. 50 questions, an oral station and a chapter of the course are free with an account, and the account needs only an email.
No. It is one payment of $99 for 180 days. Nothing is charged again, there is nothing to cancel and no card is kept.
The simulator marks on the four competence domains the Saudi Commission publishes — the only oral rubric for general surgery published in full. For the Saudi classification it is the examination’s own marking sheet; for the others it is not, but reasoning aloud and closing a plan under questioning is what every one of them scores.
One surgeon, named, with an ORCID on every page. Every guideline version and named trial is checked against PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov before a question is published, and what cannot be checked is not cited.
There is a button under every explanation and it reaches the author. A reported question is corrected or withdrawn.
Open any of them for the paper as the examining body publishes it.
Blueprint transcribed, domain by domain
MHKICBSC Parts 1 and 2 — Membership (Hong Kong and Singapore)
Philippine Board of Surgery — Diplomate
Arab Board of Health Specializations — General Surgery
Dubai Health Authority — General Surgery licensing examination
Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners — General Surgery licensing examination
Saudi Commission for Health Specialties — General Surgery classification examination
College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa — FCS General Surgery
National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria — Fellowship in Surgery
UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention — General Surgery licensing examination
Dubai Healthcare City Authority — General Surgery licensing examination
Department of Health Abu Dhabi (formerly HAAD) — General Surgery licensing examination
National Health Regulatory Authority Bahrain — General Surgery licensing examination
Oman Medical Specialty Board — General Surgery licensing examination
On the roadmap
33 more examinations are in the catalogue with their body, country and paper structure recorded. What is not yet done is the domain-by-domain transcription of the published blueprint — that is the slow part, and it is done one examination at a time rather than guessed.