UKOM Sp.B

It is the national competency examination for surgery specialists in Indonesia. Candidates are doctors who have finished an accredited surgical residency and need to demonstrate the knowledge and judgement required for independent specialist practice. Passing is part of the route to specialist recognition, and the official body publishes the current eligibility rules and application steps.

The examination is multiple choice, delivered in Indonesian. Questions are predominantly clinical vignettes covering the full surgical curriculum, from digestive and oncologic surgery to trauma, vascular, paediatric, plastic, orthopaedic, neurosurgical, urologic, and critical care topics, plus ethics and evidence-based medicine. The official body publishes the current number of questions and time allocation.

It is a specialist-level examination, so questions assume residency-level knowledge and test clinical judgement rather than isolated facts. Many candidates find the breadth of domains and the length of the sitting the main challenge. The passing score is set by the official examining body and is published on its site; it is not fixed here because it may change between administrations.

Retake rules, waiting periods, and any limit on attempts are determined by the official examining body and can change. Check its current regulations before you apply. In practice, candidates who fail usually use the result to identify weak domains and then rebuild a study plan around those areas before the next available sitting.

Most candidates prepare over several months while working, because the curriculum is broad. A realistic plan covers each domain at least once, then shifts to timed vignette practice and review of errors. The official body publishes the exam date and registration window, so work backwards from those dates rather than from a fixed number of study hours.

Start with the highest-weight domains, digestive surgery and surgical oncology, because they account for the largest share of questions. Then cover trauma and emergency surgery, vascular, paediatric, plastic, orthopaedic, neurosurgical, and urologic topics. Finish with anaesthesiology and critical care, ethics and law, and research methods. Interleave timed practice so recall is tested across domains, not just within one.

Candidates often lose marks by over-reading vignettes, missing the actual question asked, or choosing a plausible but unsafe management step. Weak performance in low-weight domains such as ethics, law, and critical care also costs easy points. Practise identifying the key finding, eliminating unsafe options, and answering within the time budget.

Those administrative details are published by the official examining body for surgery specialists in Indonesia. Because they change between administrations, confirm the current figures directly on the official site rather than relying on secondary sources. This page is an independent study resource and does not set or represent any of those official requirements.