Anesthesiology residency in Saudi Arabia
Keeping patients safe and comfortable during surgery, and managing pain and critical illness.
Lowest accepted score 2026 (median): 65.6%. Training length: 5 years.
Rotations during residency
- General core anesthesia (about 18 months)
- Trauma anesthesia (3 months)
- Cardiac anesthesia
- Pediatric anesthesia
- Obstetric anesthesia
- Neuroanesthesia
- Regional anesthesia and acute pain
- Intensive care
- Pre-operative assessment
- Chronic pain
- Elective
Schedule overview
- Years 1 to 2: General core anesthesia, pre-operative assessment
- Years 3 to 4: Trauma anesthesia (3 months), cardiac, pediatric, obstetric, neuro, regional
- Year 5: ICU, pain, elective and senior responsibility
Most common encounters
- Anesthesia for common surgeries
- Difficult airways
- Emergency surgery
- Labor epidural
- Post-operative pain
- Unstable patients in theatre
- Sedation outside theatre
- ICU referrals
- Pre-operative risk assessment
- Malignant hyperthermia and anaphylaxis
Most common procedures
- Intubation and airway devices
- Epidural and spinal
- Nerve blocks (ultrasound-guided)
- Central and arterial lines
- Fiberoptic intubation
- Mechanical ventilation
- One-lung ventilation
- Transesophageal echo (some programs)
Fellowships after residency
- Cardiac anesthesia (2 to 3 years)
- Pediatric anesthesia (2 to 3 years)
- Regional and acute pain (1 year)
- Chronic pain (1 year)
- Critical care (2 to 3 years)
- Obstetric anesthesia (2 to 3 years)
- Neuroanesthesia (2 to 3 years)
Lowest accepted score by city
- Jubail: 2026 57.8%, 2025 68.1%
- Dammam: 2026 58.6%, 2025 69.8%
- Khobar: 2026 58.6%, 2025 68.9%
- Abha: 2026 59.0%, 2025 67.6%
- Najran: 2026 59.4%, 2025 60.4%
- Alahsa: 2026 59.4%, 2025 66.6%
- Mecca: 2026 60.4%, 2025 68.1%
- Riyadh: 2026 61.2%, 2025 70.4%
- Tabuk: 2026 62.1%, 2025 67.8%
- Aljowf: 2026 65.6%, 2025 62.4%
- Hail: 2026 66.9%, 2025 65.5%
- Buraidah: 2026 67.0%, 2025 67.7%
- Dhahran: 2026 67.2%, 2025 68.5%
- Albahah: 2026 67.3%, 2025 67.3%
- Medina: 2026 67.7%, 2025 69.5%
- Khamis Mushait: 2026 68.9%, 2025 69.7%
- Jeddah: 2026 69.6%, 2025 73.1%
- Taif: 2026 69.8%, 2025 70.6%
- Jazan: 2026 71.1%, 2025 67.5%
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