Hematopathology residency in Saudi Arabia
Diagnosing blood, bone marrow and lymph node disease and running the blood bank and hematology laboratory.
Lowest accepted score 2026 (median): 82.6%. Training length: 4 years.
Rotations during residency
- Bone marrow morphology
- Peripheral blood and body fluid morphology
- Blood banking and transfusion medicine
- Clinical hematology (inpatient and outpatient)
- Hemoglobinopathy and protein electrophoresis
- Coagulation testing and reporting
- Lymph node morphology
- Molecular, cytogenetics and flow cytometry
- Quality control and laboratory administration
- Elective
Schedule overview
- R1: Introduction to laboratory medicine, basic hematology and morphology, basic coagulation, blood bank
- R2: Peripheral blood and bone marrow morphology, flow cytometry, cytogenetics, electrophoresis, lymph nodes
- R3: Bone marrow morphology, clinical hematology (12 weeks), molecular genetics, special coagulation
- R4: Transfusion medicine, lymph nodes, morphology services, electives (8 weeks in R3 to R4), laboratory administration
Most common encounters
- Anemia and leukemia smears
- Bone marrow biopsies
- Lymphoma lymph nodes
- Bleeding and clotting tests
- Sickle cell and thalassemia
- Transfusion reactions
Most common procedures
- Bone marrow aspirate and biopsy
- Therapeutic plasmapheresis
- Platelet and cellular collections
- Flow cytometry reporting
Fellowships after residency
- Transfusion medicine (1 to 2 years)
- Molecular genetic pathology (1 to 2 years)
Lowest accepted score by city
- Dammam: 2026 80.5%, 2025 73.7%
- Riyadh: 2026 84.7%, 2025 76.6%
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