Postgraduate Institute of Medicine — MD Surgery (Sri Lanka)
Asia-Pacific · LK · $99, the same everywhere
How this examination works
The Postgraduate Institute of Medicine’s MD Surgery examines three subjects, each worth a hundred and sixty marks split across two written papers — a hundred and sixty — and the hard rule is that all three must be passed at the SAME sitting: individual subjects are not carried from one year to the next. Separately, an OSCE must be passed during training; it can be attempted six months after starting and must be completed before applying for the MD Surgery examination. Board certification comes afterwards, through Part II and post-MD training.
Who can sit it
Entry is by a selection examination, and sitting it requires one year of work in Sri Lanka after internship by the application closing date, with six months of surgical experience — surgery or obstetrics and gynaecology — as a house officer or senior house officer. Board certification additionally requires not already being board certified in another specialty or subspecialty.
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
Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo 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 PGIM Sri Lanka examination like?
The Postgraduate Institute of Medicine’s MD Surgery examines three subjects, each worth a hundred and sixty marks split across two written papers — a hundred and sixty — and the hard rule is that all three must be passed at the SAME sitting: individual subjects are not carried from one year to the next. Separately, an OSCE must be passed during training; it can be attempted six months after starting and must be completed before applying for the MD Surgery examination. Board certification comes afterwards, through Part II and post-MD training.
Who can sit the PGIM Sri Lanka?
Entry is by a selection examination, and sitting it requires one year of work in Sri Lanka after internship by the application closing date, with six months of surgical experience — surgery or obstetrics and gynaecology — as a house officer or senior house officer. Board certification additionally requires not already being board certified in another specialty or subspecialty.
Is there a question bank for the PGIM Sri Lanka?
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 PGIM Sri Lanka 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 PGIM Sri Lanka?
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 PGIM Sri Lanka is decided at. Fifty questions are free with an account, so you can judge the level before paying.
How do I practise the PGIM Sri Lanka 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 PGIM Sri Lanka 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 Asia-Pacific
- MHKICBSC Parts 1 and 2 — Membership (Hong Kong and Singapore) — Hong Kong Inter-Collegiate Board of Surgical Colleges
- Philippine Board of Surgery — Diplomate — Philippine Board of Surgery / Philippine Society of General Surgeons
- College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan — FCPS General Surgery — College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan
- Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons — FCPS Surgery — Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand — Board of Surgery — Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand
- DNB General Surgery (India) — National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences
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.