SMLE — Surgery MCQs
Practice 5 Surgery past-paper MCQs for SMLE, each with a detailed explanation and reference. Try free samples below, then start a full quiz.
Part of the full SMLE QBank — 2,948 questions across all subjects.
Surgery is a core part of the SMLE syllabus. HighYield's Surgery question bank collects 5MCQs modelled on real past papers, so you practise the exact style and difficulty you'll face on exam day. Every question comes with a worked explanation and a subject reference, so you learn why an answer is right — not just which option to pick.
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Sample Surgery Questions
A 24-year-old man with no prior surgery presents with crampy abdominal pain, vomiting, and distension, with imaging consistent with small bowel obstruction. In the general adult population of developed countries, what is the most common cause of small bowel obstruction?
- A.External hernia
- B.Small bowel malignancy
- C.Postoperative adhesions
- D.Meckel diverticulum
In a motor vehicle accident patient with suspected intra-abdominal injury, when is diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) indicated?
- A.In hemodynamically unstable (hypotensive) patients
- B.Only in awake, conscious patients with abdominal pain
- C.In all MVA patients regardless of stability
- D.Never, since CT has fully replaced DPL
A 21-year-old woman has periumbilical pain migrating to the right lower quadrant, nausea, vomiting, fever, and tenderness maximal at McBurney's point, with a negative pregnancy test and no cervical motion tenderness. What is the most likely diagnosis?
- A.Request another diagnostic test
- B.Acute appendicitis
- C.Ectopic pregnancy
- D.Ovarian torsion
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