Iran General Surgery Board Exam case studies

The General Surgery Specialty Board Examination (بورد تخصصی جراحی عمومی) is the national certifying assessment that graduates of Iranian general surgery residency programs must pass to be recognized as specialist (متخصص) surgeons and to obtain an independent practice licence. It is administered under the authority of the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education through the relevant board and testing body; this page is an independent study resource and has no official affiliation with those organizations. The exam is delivered in Persian and combines a written multiple-choice paper with an oral examination and a clinical skills assessment, so preparation must cover both factual recall and the ability to reason aloud and perform at the bedside. Content spans the full breadth of the specialty, with the largest shares given to basic sciences applied to surgery and to gastrointestinal and abdominal wall disease, followed by perioperative care, trauma and critical care, hepatobiliary and pancreatic disease, endocrine and breast surgery, vascular and thoracic surgery, pediatric surgery, transplantation and surgical oncology, minimally invasive techniques, and ethics, professionalism and Iranian medical regulations. The Iran General Surgery Board Exam case studies are 5 cases and about 3,663 words.