Certificación de Especialista en Cirugía General (Argentina)
Latin America · AR · $99, the same everywhere
How this examination works
Argentina does not set a single national exit examination: it certifies through the Comité Colegio of the Asociación Argentina de Cirugía, and what is fixed in law is the expiry. Law 23.873 of 1990, article 21, provides that official authorisation to use the specialist title lasts five years and is revalidated every five. Revalidation is settled by evidencing continuity in the specialty plus a personal interview or a competency examination. For full AAC members the process is free.
Who can sit it
The AAC runs an Annual Course, delivered entirely online, as the main route towards certification, aimed mainly at third- and fourth-year surgical residents across the country. That is where preparation actually happens, rather than at a single sitting.
Checked against the body itself on 1 September 2026. Procedures change; if this no longer matches what you were asked for, write and tell us.
The structure above is taken from the examining body. What we have not done yet is transcribe its published syllabus domain by domain, which is what lets us show a coverage table instead of asking you to take our word for it.
5,000
active questions
20
topics with questions
No weighted breakdown for this examination, and why
Asociación Argentina de Cirugía does not publish a general surgery syllabus we have been able to obtain, so this page shows no domains and no percentages. Anywhere you see a weighted breakdown for this exam, ask which document it came from. Where an authority does publish one, we transcribe it with the page number and link the original.
Common questions about this examination
What is the AAC Argentina examination like?
Argentina does not set a single national exit examination: it certifies through the Comité Colegio of the Asociación Argentina de Cirugía, and what is fixed in law is the expiry. Law 23.873 of 1990, article 21, provides that official authorisation to use the specialist title lasts five years and is revalidated every five. Revalidation is settled by evidencing continuity in the specialty plus a personal interview or a competency examination. For full AAC members the process is free.
Who can sit the AAC Argentina?
The AAC runs an Annual Course, delivered entirely online, as the main route towards certification, aimed mainly at third- and fourth-year surgical residents across the country. That is where preparation actually happens, rather than at a single sitting.
Is there a question bank for the AAC Argentina?
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 AAC Argentina blueprint — general surgery is general surgery wherever it is examined, and we say plainly which boards we have mapped and which we have not.
What level are the questions for the AAC Argentina?
2,051 of the 5,000 — 41% — sit at the hardest of three levels: trial results, guideline nuance and the cases that split examiners, which is the level an exit examination like the AAC Argentina is decided at. Fifty questions are free with an account, so you can judge the level before paying.
How do I practise the AAC Argentina oral component?
With the oral simulator, included in a subscription. Six stations as an examination sets them; you choose the station and the examiner chooses the case from more than a hundred scenarios built on this bank. It presses when an answer is vague and marks by domain — reasoning, guidelines, decision-making and communication.
What does preparation for the AAC Argentina cost?
One payment of $99 for 180 days, the same from wherever you pay — there is no country pricing. It covers the whole bank, the oral simulator and the timed mock papers. Nothing renews and no card is kept on file afterwards. Fifty questions are free with an account, so you can judge the level before paying.
Every answer above is taken from the examining body’s own published document, not from our reading of it.
Other examinations in Latin America
- Consejo Mexicano de Cirugía General — certificación y recertificación — Consejo Mexicano de Cirugía General
- Título de Especialista em Cirurgia Geral (Brazil) — Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
- Certificación de Especialidad en Cirugía General (Chile) — Corporación Nacional Autónoma de Certificación de Especialidades Médicas
- Especialista en Cirugía General (Colombia) — título universitario y ReTHUS — Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social — ReTHUS
- Especialista en Cirugía General (Perú) — Registro Nacional de Especialistas — Colegio Médico del Perú — Registro Nacional de Especialistas
- Especialista en Cirugía General (Uruguay) — Escuela de Graduados y Colegio Médico — Colegio Médico del Uruguay — registro de títulos de especialista
Price for this board
One price, the same from every country. What you see is what you are charged, and nothing renews.
$99 · 180 days of full access
This examination has a viva or clinical component, and the access includes the oral simulator: an examiner that presents a case, listens to what you actually say and questions you back. It marks on the four competence domains the Saudi Commission publishes — the only oral rubric for general surgery published in full — which are the same competencies every one of these boards is testing.