Unified European Board of Thoracic Surgery (UEBTS), a joint initiative of UEMS, EACTS and ESTS · Current officially linked, undated Harmonized European Training Syllabus for Thoracic Surgery, reviewed 2026-10-10. No revision identifier or effective date is printed in the document. The workbook's European Board of Thoracic Surgery Examination label maps to the former UEMS/EBTS examination, which merged with the EACTS/EBCTS thoracic examination into UEBTS in 2025. The assigned slug is preserved. This preview covers the shared thoracic syllabus underlying Membership (MUEBTS) and Fellowship (FUEBTS).

This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.

• EBCTS — Syllabus
• Harmonized European Training Syllabus for Thoracic Surgery
• Information for candidates — Level 1 MUEBTS
• Information for candidates — Level 2 FUEBTS
• UEBTS Regulations
• UEBTS Examinations for Membership or Fellowship
• A common exit examination for thoracic surgery in Europe—the Unified European Board of Thoracic Surgery
• UEMS Thoracic Surgery — Examination
• ERS/ESTS clinical practice guideline on fitness for curative intent treatment of lung cancer (2025)
• ERS/ESGE/ESTS guidelines on endobronchial and oesophageal endosonography for lung cancer (2026)
• BTS Pleural Disease Guideline and Pleural Procedures Statement (2023)
• ATS/ESICM/SCCM Mechanical Ventilation in Adult ARDS Guideline (2017)
• An Update on Management of Adult Patients with ARDS: Official ATS Guideline (2024)
• Thoracic trauma WSES-AAST guidelines (2025)
• IDSA Aspergillosis Guideline (2016)
• NCI — Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treatment (PDQ), Health Professional Version
• Lobar or Sublobar Resection for Peripheral Stage IA Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
• German Guideline Program in Oncology — Soft Tissue Sarcoma, Version 1.1
• Perioperative outcome and predictors of success after tracheal resection (2026)
• NCI — Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma Treatment (PDQ), Health Professional Version
• Esophageal emergencies: WSES guidelines (2019)
• Royal Children's Hospital — Foreign bodies inhaled
• ERAS Society/ESTS Guidelines for enhanced recovery after lung surgery
• ISHLT — Baseline Lung Allograft Dysfunction Consensus Document (2026)
• UEMS Thoracic Surgery — Thoracic Surgery Events
• Predicted body weight relationships for protective ventilation – unisex proposals from pre-term through to adult
• Formal guidelines: management of acute respiratory distress syndrome
• Guidelines for enhanced recovery after lung surgery — ESTS-hosted full text
• Lobar or Sublobar Resection for Peripheral Stage IA Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer — governmental library copy
• ERS/ESTS clinical practice guideline on fitness for curative intent treatment of lung cancer — EJCTS publication
• New ERS/ESGE/ESTS Guideline Advances Endosonography in Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Staging
• nejmoa2212083.pdf
• GGPO_Soft_Tissue_Sarcoma_1.1.pdf
• ExpertConsensus_Surgical_Treatment_Hyperhidrosis.pdf
• Management_of_Adult_Patients_Supported_with.1.pdf
• Emergent robotic surgery conversions: improving operating room team performance through high fidelity simulations - Bludevich - Journal of Thoracic Disease
• Clinical Practice Guidelines : Foreign body inhalation