Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand — Board of Surgery
Asia-Pacific · TH · $99, the same everywhere
How this examination works
The Thai Board of Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand is passed whole or not at all: there are three parts and all three must be cleared. Multiple choice, modified essay questions — MEQs, which ask you to work a case through in steps rather than choose — and a viva. The college also runs an online in-training examination of a hundred and fifty multiple-choice questions drawn from its own bank of past board papers and validated by its training and examination committee; all thirty-two of the country’s training institutions take part, and it exists to let residents measure themselves before the qualifying examination in their final year.
Who can sit it
Access is through general surgery residency at an accredited institution, and proof of passing the Medical Council of Thailand’s National Licensing Examination is required.
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
Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand 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 RCST examination like?
The Thai Board of Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand is passed whole or not at all: there are three parts and all three must be cleared. Multiple choice, modified essay questions — MEQs, which ask you to work a case through in steps rather than choose — and a viva. The college also runs an online in-training examination of a hundred and fifty multiple-choice questions drawn from its own bank of past board papers and validated by its training and examination committee; all thirty-two of the country’s training institutions take part, and it exists to let residents measure themselves before the qualifying examination in their final year.
Who can sit the RCST?
Access is through general surgery residency at an accredited institution, and proof of passing the Medical Council of Thailand’s National Licensing Examination is required.
Is there a question bank for the RCST?
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 RCST 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 RCST?
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 RCST is decided at. Fifty questions are free with an account, so you can judge the level before paying.
How do I practise the RCST 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 RCST 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
- 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
- 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.