General surgery — in the LEK question base
The acute abdomen, gastrointestinal surgery, trauma, clinical nutrition, fitness for surgery.
- Questions in base
- 335
- Share of base
- 13.6%
- Roughly on the paper
- ~19
The "on the paper" figure assumes the 140 questions drawn from the base are distributed in proportion to its composition. CEM does not publish per-field quotas, so treat it as an order of magnitude rather than a promise.
Required reading — general surgery
The list CEM publishes for this field. Questions are written from these titles, so where a lecture and a listed textbook disagree, the textbook decides.
They appear here in Polish, exactly as CEM lists them — these are the specific editions that count, and most have no English translation. That is not an oversight on our part; it is the central practical problem of sitting this exam in English.
- 01 Grzegorz Wallner i in. (red.) — Chirurgia. Podręcznik dla studentów, PZWL, 2025 (obowiązkowe)
- 02 O. James Garden i in. (red.) — Chirurgia, wyd. II polskie, Edra Urban & Partner, 2021 (obowiązkowe)
- 03 Wojciech Noszczyk (red.) — Chirurgia. Repetytorium, PZWL, 2019 (uzupełniające)
- 04 Grzegorz Wallner i in. (red.) — Ostre schorzenia jamy brzusznej, PZWL, 2024 (uzupełniające)
- 05 Jacek Sobocki, Anna Zmarzły (red.) — Żywienie kliniczne, PZWL, 2026 (uzupełniające)
Source: the CEM reading list . As at August 2026 — check before your session in case CEM has revised it.
How to get through this field
335 questions is a finite, countable set — at twenty a day you are through it in 17 days. The difficulty is not the volume. It is that the CEM listing gives you the questions and nothing else: no answer key, no explanation and no indication which of the books above the answer came from.
In our bank every question in this field carries an explanation and a citation to its source. Instead of memorising a letter you see why the other four options are wrong — and that is the part which transfers to the 60 unpublished questions you cannot prepare for in advance. The English edition is in progress; these pages come first.