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The provider operates as a self-employed individual (trabajador autónomo) under Spanish law. Regulated profession: physician, subject to the rules of the Spanish medical profession and registered with the professional body stated above.

surgicalboardsqa.com provides educational material for surgical board examination preparation: practice questions with explanations, examination guides, and an examination simulator. It is offered to healthcare professionals and trainees.

It is not a medical service and does not provide medical advice. No content on this site establishes a doctor-patient relationship or may be used for clinical decision-making or patient care. See our medical disclaimer.

The data controller is Pablo Lozano Lominchar, at the postal address stated above, reachable at lozanon57@gmail.com. Personal data is processed to provide the service, manage subscriptions and comply with legal obligations.

You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection by writing to the address or email above. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, aepd.es). Full detail in our privacy policy.

All content — questions, explanations, guideline summaries, simulator scenarios, source code and interface design — belongs to Pablo Lozano Lominchar, protected under the Spanish Consolidated Text of the Intellectual Property Act (Royal Legislative Decree 1/1996) and the Berne Convention.

The question bank additionally constitutes a protected database: its maker has made a substantial investment in obtaining, verifying and presenting its contents, and it is protected by the sui generis right of articles 133 et seq. of that Act and article 7 of Directive 96/9/EC. Extraction or re-utilisation of all or a substantial part of the database, and repeated extraction of insubstantial parts, are prohibited and will be pursued.

SurgBoardsQ&A is an independent resource. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or accredited by any examining or certifying body.

The European Board of Surgery and UEMS, the American Board of Surgery, the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences, the Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Oncológica, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, the European Society for Medical Oncology, the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the Peritoneal Surface Oncology Group International are trade marks of their respective owners. They are referred to descriptively, to identify the examinations a candidate is preparing for and the guidelines a given answer follows. No guideline text is reproduced: all guideline content is summarised in our own words.

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These terms are governed by Spanish law. For consumers, any mandatory protection afforded by the law of their country of residence remains unaffected.