One general surgery bank. The exams nobody writes for.

The bodies whose published syllabus is set out domain by domain on each examination page.

The Arab Board of Health Specializations examines for all of its member states. Dubai, Doha and Riyadh additionally set their own licensing paper for surgeons trained elsewhere.

The Intercollegiate Specialty Board sets the FRCS in General Surgery for the United Kingdom and Ireland. Elsewhere the exit examination is national — the German and Austrian Facharztprüfung and the Swiss FMH examination are largely oral, Poland sits the Państwowy Egzamin Specjalizacyjny, and Portugal, Italy, Greece, Romania, Hungary and Czechia each end training with a specialty examination. Turkey adds a voluntary board examination through the Turkish Surgical Association.

Four countries certify by examination: Mexico through the Consejo Mexicano de Cirugía General, Brazil through the Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões — in Portuguese, not Spanish — Argentina through the Asociación Argentina de Cirugía and Chile through CONACEM. Everywhere else the specialist title is awarded by the university at the end of residency and then registered with a ministry or a medical college, with no national exit examination; Costa Rica is the one place where that registration itself involves a competency examination. Each country has its own page saying which of the two it is. The whole bank is written in Spanish as well as English.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan sets the FCPS in General Surgery; Bangladesh sits the FCPS through its own college. India examines through NBEMS for the DNB and through the universities for the MS. All of them pair a written paper with a clinical and viva component — which is what the oral simulator is for.

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons sets the Fellowship Examination in General Surgery for Australia and New Zealand. The Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand, the Indonesian and Malaysian boards and the Korean and Japanese societies each run their own exit examination.

Two regional colleges examine most of the continent: the West African College of Surgeons and COSECSA, whose fellowship covers East, Central and Southern Africa. Nigeria adds the National Postgraduate Medical College, and South Africa the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa.

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada examines general surgery for certification. The bank is not written to the American Board of Surgery blueprint and does not claim to prepare the ABS qualifying examination.