General surgery — 5,000 referenced questions
One general surgery bank. The exams nobody writes for.
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.
No card. The free questions are the same 50 in every country.
One syllabus, several examinations
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.
The viva, not just the paper
Of the examinations covered here, 2 of 6 are decided by an oral or an OSCE, and not one of those has a commercial trainer. A bank of multiple choice questions is the easy half.
Anchored to your syllabus
Questions are mapped to the examining body’s own blueprint, not to a generic idea of general surgery. An examination whose official syllabus we have not obtained is not sold here at all.
Citations that were checked
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.
Three questions, right now
Not samples written for a landing page. These are three of the five thousand, pulled from the bank as they are, with the explanation you would get in the app.
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 the explanation.
A 60-year-old woman is ventilated on day four after an emergency right hemicolectomy complicated by anastomotic leak and washout. She is now apyrexial, off vasopressors for 24 hours, and her chest radiograph is clear. She is alert and obeys commands on a light sedation regimen. Ventilator settings are pressure support 8 cmH2O, PEEP 5 cmH2O, FiO2 0.3, with oxygen saturation 97 per cent. Respiratory rate is 22 per minute with a tidal volume of 380 mL. She has a strong cough and modest secretions. The team is considering extubation. Which finding best supports proceeding?
Pick an answer to see the explanation.
A 54-year-old woman is referred after an ultrasound performed for neck discomfort showed a 1.6 cm solid hypoechoic nodule in the right thyroid lobe with microcalcification and an irregular margin. Fine needle aspiration reports Bethesda category VI, papillary carcinoma. There is no cervical lymphadenopathy on ultrasound of both lateral compartments, no extrathyroidal extension, no hoarseness and no history of neck irradiation. Thyroid function is normal and the contralateral lobe is sonographically normal. She has two young children and asks whether she must lose the whole gland and take a tablet for life.
Pick an answer to see the explanation.
Examinations covered
Two kinds, and it matters which. The exit examinations certify you as a surgeon. The Gulf papers licence a surgeon trained elsewhere to practise there — Dubai, Qatar and Saudi Arabia only. Each has its own page with the structure as the examining body publishes it, and an honest note on what we have not been able to source.
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
What is in the bank
Five thousand questions, weighted like a general surgery examination and not like an oncology fellowship. Surgical oncology is a tenth of it; the rest is emergency surgery, trauma, critical care, hernia, endocrine and benign disease — the core that every one of these examinations tests, whichever country sets it.
Priced where you sit the exam
Four tiers, set by the country of your card. The same product costs four times less in Manila than in Hong Kong, because the alternative in Manila is nothing at all.