Título de Especialista em Cirurgia Geral (Brazil)
Latin America · BR · $99, the same everywhere
How this examination works
COTECIG, which awards the Título de Especialista em Cirurgia Geral, is held annually in two stages. The first is an objective paper of a hundred multiple-choice questions on the bibliography the call itself publishes, sat online. Those who pass move to the second, in person in Rio de Janeiro: an oral component split across three examining panels covering cases, descriptions of procedures, images and videos, and a practical component that consists of performing a simulated anastomosis on a model supplied by the Colégio. The title is awarded by the CBC together with the Brazilian Medical Association. The whole examination is in Portuguese, not Spanish.
Who can sit it
Eligibility is evidenced in four ways: a CBC certificate of two years of general surgery training, a CBC certificate of three years, completion of a CNRM-accredited prerequisite programme in basic surgery, or at least six years working as a general surgeon in Brazil.
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
Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões 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 TCBC examination like?
COTECIG, which awards the Título de Especialista em Cirurgia Geral, is held annually in two stages. The first is an objective paper of a hundred multiple-choice questions on the bibliography the call itself publishes, sat online. Those who pass move to the second, in person in Rio de Janeiro: an oral component split across three examining panels covering cases, descriptions of procedures, images and videos, and a practical component that consists of performing a simulated anastomosis on a model supplied by the Colégio. The title is awarded by the CBC together with the Brazilian Medical Association. The whole examination is in Portuguese, not Spanish.
Who can sit the TCBC?
Eligibility is evidenced in four ways: a CBC certificate of two years of general surgery training, a CBC certificate of three years, completion of a CNRM-accredited prerequisite programme in basic surgery, or at least six years working as a general surgeon in Brazil.
Is there a question bank for the TCBC?
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 TCBC 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 TCBC?
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 TCBC is decided at. Fifty questions are free with an account, so you can judge the level before paying.
How do I practise the TCBC 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 TCBC 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
- Certificación de Especialista en Cirugía General (Argentina) — Asociación Argentina de Cirugía
- 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.