The American Board of Surgery® regularly reviews and updates the content for the General Surgery Qualifying Board Exam. Then, to help you focus your review, it issues an outline of the primary medical topics and their approximate percentages for a typical exam.
The 2025 ABS General Surgery QE topics are:
| Percent of Exam | General Surgery Qualifying Board Exam Topics |
|---|---|
| 4% | Surgical Specialties |
| 13% | Applied Science |
| 2% | Preoperative Evaluation and Perioperative Care |
| 5% | Miscellaneous Topics |
| 12% | Abdomen |
| 15% | Alimentary Tract |
| 2% | Endoscopy |
| 7% | Breast |
| 5% | Endocrine |
| 2% | Skin and Soft Tissue |
| 10% | Surgical Critical Care |
| 8% | Trauma |
| 7% | Vascular |
| 2% | Transplantation |
| 2% | Thoracic Surgery |
| 2% | Pediatric Surgery |
| 2% | Head and Neck |
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