Especialista en Cirugía General (Guatemala) — registro del título de especialidad
Latin America · GT · Local pricing
How you become a specialist here
No national exit examinationIn Guatemala the specialist title is registered with the health ministry’s Department of Health Training and Education, on top of the primary degree already registered there. Foreign qualifications are first incorporated through the Universidad de San Carlos. The Colegio de Médicos y Cirujanos licenses practice. There is no national exit examination in general surgery.
So what is a question bank for, here? For the years before the title, and for the evaluations inside them. Where there is no exit examination the pressure moves into residency — the ward round, the rotation assessment, the case you are asked to defend — and it is the same general surgery either way. The bank is also what you sit down with before a certification examination abroad, and before recertifying.
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.
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
Is there a national general surgery examination in Guatemala?
In Guatemala the specialist title is registered with the health ministry’s Department of Health Training and Education, on top of the primary degree already registered there. Foreign qualifications are first incorporated through the Universidad de San Carlos. The Colegio de Médicos y Cirujanos licenses practice. There is no national exit examination in general surgery.
How is a general surgeon certified in Guatemala?
Through the health ministry’s Department of Health Training and Education. It is a registration procedure over a title already awarded, not a specialty examination. We checked this with the body itself on 1 September 2026, and we publish the date so that it is obvious when it ages.
Is a question bank useful if Guatemala has no exit examination?
It is useful for residency, which is where it is actually decided: rotation assessments, the ward round and the case you are asked to defend. And for anyone sitting a certification abroad or recertifying. 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 — 2,051 of them, 41%, at the hardest of three levels.
What does it cost from Guatemala?
It is priced by the country your card is issued in, so candidates are not quoted another country's price. The figures that apply to you are on this page.
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 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
Price for this board
For candidates paying from the Philippines, south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The 90-day exam pass is the plan most people take here.
90-day exam pass
$15
Quarterly
$18
Annual
$45