Adult Neurology residency in Saudi Arabia
Diseases of the brain, spinal cord, nerves and muscles in adults.
Lowest accepted score 2026 (median): 66.8%. Training length: 5 years.
Rotations during residency
- General medicine, endocrinology, rheumatology, cardiology, infectious diseases
- Emergency medicine
- Intensive care and neuro-ICU
- Inpatient neurology, clinics and consults
- Psychiatry
- Neurosurgery
- Pediatric neurology
- EEG
- EMG and nerve conduction
- Neuroradiology
- Specialty clinics (multiple sclerosis, movement, epilepsy, stroke, headache)
- Research and electives
Schedule overview
- R1: General medicine, endocrinology, rheumatology, cardiology, ER, ICU
- R2 to R3: Inpatient neurology, clinics, consults, neuro-ICU, psychiatry, neurosurgery
- R4 to R5: EEG, EMG, neuroradiology, specialty clinics, pediatric neurology, research, electives
Most common encounters
- Stroke
- Seizures and epilepsy
- Headache and migraine
- Dizziness
- Parkinson disease and tremor
- Multiple sclerosis
- Neuropathy
- Dementia
- Myasthenia and muscle disease
- Guillain-Barre
Most common procedures
- Lumbar puncture
- EEG interpretation
- EMG and nerve conduction (supervised)
- Botulinum toxin injections
- Nerve blocks for headache
- Thrombolysis decisions for stroke
- Neurological examination and localisation
Fellowships after residency
- Stroke (1 year)
- Epilepsy (2 to 3 years)
- Movement disorders (2 to 3 years)
- Neuromuscular (2 to 3 years)
- Multiple sclerosis and neuroimmunology (2 to 3 years)
- Neurocritical care (2 to 3 years)
- Headache (1 year)
- Dementia (1 year)
Lowest accepted score by city
- Riyadh: 2026 59.1%, 2025 73.5%
- Khobar: 2026 60.5%, 2025 79.8%
- Tabuk: 2026 62.6%, 2025 67.7%
- Abha: 2026 63.5%, 2025 72.2%
- Jeddah: 2026 64.9%, 2025 81.3%
- Alahsa: 2026 68.7%, 2025 72.0%
- Dammam: 2026 69.1%, 2025 80.3%
- Dhahran: 2026 70.4%, 2025 72.3%
- Mecca: 2026 73.8%, 2025 80.9%
- Medina: 2026 85.6%, 2025 78.9%
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