Iraqi Board of Medical Specializations — General Surgery
Middle East · IQ · $99, the same everywhere
How this examination works
What sets the Iraqi board apart is how it counts marks, and it is worth understanding before preparing for it: passing each paper separately is not enough. In both the primary and the final examination the pass mark is 60% in EACH paper and, on top of that, a 70% average across the two. A 61 and a 62 therefore fail, even though both papers are passed on their own: you have to build a margin somewhere. The primary allows three attempts, and once those are used the trainee’s relationship with the specialty programme is terminated.
Who can sit it
Access is through the specialty programme of the General Surgery Scientific Council of the Iraqi Board for Medical Specializations, which publishes its own curriculum. We have not yet transcribed that syllabus domain by domain, which is why this page shows no coverage table.
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
Iraqi Board of Medical Specializations 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 FIBMS examination like?
What sets the Iraqi board apart is how it counts marks, and it is worth understanding before preparing for it: passing each paper separately is not enough. In both the primary and the final examination the pass mark is 60% in EACH paper and, on top of that, a 70% average across the two. A 61 and a 62 therefore fail, even though both papers are passed on their own: you have to build a margin somewhere. The primary allows three attempts, and once those are used the trainee’s relationship with the specialty programme is terminated.
Who can sit the FIBMS?
Access is through the specialty programme of the General Surgery Scientific Council of the Iraqi Board for Medical Specializations, which publishes its own curriculum. We have not yet transcribed that syllabus domain by domain, which is why this page shows no coverage table.
Is there a question bank for the FIBMS?
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 FIBMS 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 FIBMS?
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 FIBMS is decided at. Fifty questions are free with an account, so you can judge the level before paying.
How do I practise the FIBMS 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 FIBMS 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 Middle East
- Arab Board of Health Specializations — General Surgery — Arab Board of Health Specializations
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.