College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan — FCPS General Surgery
Asia-Pacific · PK · $99, the same everywhere
How this examination works
The College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan examines in three steps rather than one: FCPS-I, multiple choice, which is the gateway into training; the IMM — Intermediate Module — midway, with theory and viva, sat after two years of surgery; and the final FCPS-II, which combines theory, TOACS — objective structured stations — and a clinical examination with vivas. The TOACS is what catches out anyone arriving from a European format: you rotate through timed stations rather than talk to a panel.
Who can sit it
FCPS-I requires a PMDC-recognised MBBS and a one-year house job in a CPSP-recognised institution, six months of it in the chosen specialty. Applying for FCPS-II requires two years of residency in CPSP-recognised institutions. The college also builds research methodology and a dissertation into the pathway.
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
College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan 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 FCPS Pakistan examination like?
The College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan examines in three steps rather than one: FCPS-I, multiple choice, which is the gateway into training; the IMM — Intermediate Module — midway, with theory and viva, sat after two years of surgery; and the final FCPS-II, which combines theory, TOACS — objective structured stations — and a clinical examination with vivas. The TOACS is what catches out anyone arriving from a European format: you rotate through timed stations rather than talk to a panel.
Who can sit the FCPS Pakistan?
FCPS-I requires a PMDC-recognised MBBS and a one-year house job in a CPSP-recognised institution, six months of it in the chosen specialty. Applying for FCPS-II requires two years of residency in CPSP-recognised institutions. The college also builds research methodology and a dissertation into the pathway.
Is there a question bank for the FCPS Pakistan?
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 FCPS Pakistan 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 FCPS Pakistan?
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 FCPS Pakistan is decided at. Fifty questions are free with an account, so you can judge the level before paying.
How do I practise the FCPS Pakistan 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 FCPS Pakistan 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
- Postgraduate Institute of Medicine — MD Surgery (Sri Lanka) — Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo
- 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.