Dubai Healthcare City Authority — General Surgery licensing examination
Gulf · AE · Premium pricing
Examination structure
Covered by the bank; blueprint not transcribed yet
The bank prepares you for this examination — it is general surgery, and there is one bank for all of them. What we have not done yet is obtain this body’s published syllabus and transcribe it domain by domain, which is what lets us show you a coverage table instead of asking you to take our word for it. Where we have done that, the table is on the page; here it is not, and we would rather say so than let you assume otherwise.
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Syllabus weighting used
Until this board’s own blueprint is transcribed, questions are drawn against the general exit-examination distribution.
Common questions about this examination
What are the parts of the DHCC examination?
Dubai Healthcare City Authority sets 1 component: General Surgeon — Prometric licensing examination (a written multiple-choice paper).
Where is the official DHCC syllabus published?
Dubai Healthcare City Authority publishes it at https://www.dhcr.gov.ae/en/professional-licensing. Our question mapping is taken from that document, domain by domain.
Is there a question bank for the DHCC?
This one. 5,000 single-best-answer questions across the whole of general surgery, each with the reasoning for every option rather than only the correct one, written by a consultant surgical oncologist. It is written to the discipline, not transcribed from the DHCC blueprint — general surgery is general surgery wherever it is examined, and we say plainly which boards we have mapped and which we have not.
How hard are the questions?
2,051 of the 5,000 — 41% — sit at the hardest of three levels: trial results, guideline nuance and the cases that split examiners. Fifty questions are free with an account, so you can judge the level before paying.
What does preparation for the DHCC cost?
It is priced by the country your card is issued in, so candidates are not quoted another country's price. The exact figures for this board are on this page. Fifty questions and the 476-page revision book are free.
Every answer above is taken from the examining body’s own published document, not from our reading of it.
Other examinations in Gulf
- Dubai Health Authority — General Surgery licensing examination — Dubai Health Authority
- Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners — General Surgery licensing examination — Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners — Department of Healthcare Professions
- Saudi Commission for Health Specialties — General Surgery classification examination — Saudi Commission for Health Specialties
- UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention — General Surgery licensing examination — Ministry of Health and Prevention (northern emirates)
- Department of Health Abu Dhabi (formerly HAAD) — General Surgery licensing examination — Department of Health — Abu Dhabi
- National Health Regulatory Authority Bahrain — General Surgery licensing examination — National Health Regulatory Authority
Price for this board
For candidates paying from Hong Kong, Singapore and the Gulf states.
Quarterly
$99
Annual
$299