Adult Critical Care Medicine residency in Saudi Arabia
Treating the sickest patients in intensive care units, including life support.
Lowest accepted score 2026 (median): 60.8%. Training length: 5 years.
Rotations during residency
- General critical care
- Senior critical care
- Coronary care
- Cardiac surgery ICU
- General surgery
- Core anesthesia
- Emergency medicine
- Trauma
- Thoracic surgery
- Vascular surgery
- Critical care radiology
- Echocardiography
- Core internal medicine (pulmonary, nephrology, hematology and oncology, infectious diseases, GI)
- Research
- Elective
Schedule overview
- Years 1 to 2: Core internal medicine, anesthesia, emergency, general critical care
- Years 3 to 5: Coronary care, cardiac surgery ICU, trauma, thoracic and vascular surgery, echocardiography, senior critical care, research
Most common encounters
- Septic shock
- Respiratory failure
- Post-operative critical care
- Trauma
- Cardiac arrest survivors
- Acute kidney injury
- Severe pneumonia
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Poisoning
- Brain injury
Most common procedures
- Intubation and airway management
- Mechanical ventilation
- Central and arterial lines
- Bedside ultrasound and echo
- Bronchoscopy
- Chest tubes
- Renal replacement therapy set-up
- ECMO (some centers)
Fellowships after residency
- ECMO (1 year)
- Cardiac ICU (2 to 3 years)
- Neurocritical care (2 to 3 years)
- Pediatric critical care (3 years)
- Transplant ICU (2 to 3 years)
Lowest accepted score by city
- Dammam: 2026 56.0%, 2025 74.8%
- Jeddah: 2026 56.6%, 2025 69.8%
- Riyadh: 2026 57.6%, 2025 62.0%
- Taif: 2026 57.7%, 2025 61.8%
- Mecca: 2026 59.3%, 2025 55.5%
- Alahsa: 2026 60.2%, 2025 60.3%
- Medina: 2026 60.8%, 2025 63.1%
- Khamis Mushait: 2026 60.9%, 2025 66.4%
- Dhahran: 2026 61.2%, 2025 68.5%
- Jazan: 2026 63.8%, 2025 65.1%
- Khobar: 2026 64.1%, 2025 70.5%
- Tabuk: 2026 67.9%, 2025 60.2%
- Najran: 2026 69.1%, 2025 60.5%
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