The Saudi Fellowship in Colon and Rectal Surgery (SCFHS) is examined in two steps: a 100-question written paper blueprinted by domain — colorectal cancer, anorectal disease, IBD, complications, hereditary tumours, endoscopy — and a Final Clinical and Oral Examination in SOE format with two long cases and four short cases. Practise questions mapped to that blueprint, each with a guideline-referenced explanation.
Content reviewed 25 August 2026 against current guidelines.
Start practising freeEvery question is written by Pablo Lozano Lominchar, MD, PhD, and mapped to this board’s published syllabus. Before it enters the bank it has to pass an automated check: five options, a written explanation, and a citation — a named society guideline or a named trial. Benign and functional topics cannot be published without a society guideline; oncological ones cite NCCN, ESMO or AJCC, and the classification systems that govern a topic — Bethesda, TIRADS, Atlanta, Prague, Chicago — have to appear where they apply. The author has audited the full active bank against current guideline versions: what fails is re-cited, rewritten or withdrawn. 650 questions are currently withdrawn and are served to nobody.
Scope of authorship. SCFHS-CRS sits outside the author’s own subspecialty practice, which is surgical oncology — peritoneal malignancy, sarcoma, hepatopancreatobiliary and complex pelvic surgery. No diplomate of this board has signed these questions off. What they offer is traceability rather than personal authority: every answer names the current guideline or trial it rests on, so you can check it at the source before you trust it. Found an error? Tell us — it gets corrected or withdrawn.
The final written examination carries 100 questions distributed by domain, with colorectal cancer the largest block (20 questions) followed by intraoperative and postoperative complications (15) and anorectal disease (12). Passing it makes you eligible for the Final Clinical and Oral Examination, which is held once a year as six stations: two long cases and four short cases.
Work the blueprint in proportion rather than by textbook order: cancer, complications and anorectal disease together account for almost half the paper. Then rehearse the oral out loud in the FCOE shape — two long cases on cancer, IBD, diverticular disease, bleeding or polyposis, and four short cases on emergencies, complications, anorectal and functional disorders.
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