How this examination works
The Swiss Facharztprüfung in surgery has two parts, written and oral, and each is marked only pass or fail: there is no grade. The oral lasts ninety minutes across three stations of two cases each: visceral surgery, traumatology and other surgical areas. The rule that fails most people is that ALL THREE stations must be passed: being strong in visceral does not make up for coming apart in trauma. Discussing two cases in a row before a panel, three times over, is what the oral simulator trains.
Who can sit it
Only holders of a federal medical diploma or a recognised foreign diploma are admitted. The oral requires having already passed the Basisexamen. And two timing conditions apply: it cannot be sat before the final year of the regulated training, and in no case before the operative logbook required by the programme has been completed.
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
Schweizerisches Institut für ärztliche Weiter- und Fortbildung (SIWF/FMH) 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 FMH Chirurgie examination like?
The Swiss Facharztprüfung in surgery has two parts, written and oral, and each is marked only pass or fail: there is no grade. The oral lasts ninety minutes across three stations of two cases each: visceral surgery, traumatology and other surgical areas. The rule that fails most people is that ALL THREE stations must be passed: being strong in visceral does not make up for coming apart in trauma. Discussing two cases in a row before a panel, three times over, is what the oral simulator trains.
Who can sit the FMH Chirurgie?
Only holders of a federal medical diploma or a recognised foreign diploma are admitted. The oral requires having already passed the Basisexamen. And two timing conditions apply: it cannot be sat before the final year of the regulated training, and in no case before the operative logbook required by the programme has been completed.
Is there a question bank for the FMH Chirurgie?
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 FMH Chirurgie 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 FMH Chirurgie?
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 FMH Chirurgie is decided at. Fifty questions are free with an account, so you can judge the level before paying.
How do I practise the FMH Chirurgie 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 FMH Chirurgie 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 Europe
- Facharztprüfung Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie (Germany) — Landesärztekammer
- Facharztprüfung Chirurgie (Austria) — Österreichische Ärztekammer
- Exame Final da Especialidade de Cirurgia Geral (Portugal) — Ordem dos Médicos
- Państwowy Egzamin Specjalizacyjny — chirurgia ogólna (Poland) — Centrum Egzaminów Medycznych
- Ulusal Cerrahi Yeterlilik Sınavı (Turkey) — Türk Cerrahi Derneği
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.