Preventive Medicine residency in Saudi Arabia
Public health, disease prevention, and health systems rather than individual treatment.
Lowest accepted score 2026 (median): 72.4%. Training length: 4 years.
Rotations during residency
- Field rotations (public health, outbreak response, health authorities)
- Academic rotations (epidemiology, biostatistics, health policy)
- Clinical rotations (internal medicine and others)
- Infection control
- Occupational and environmental health
- Health promotion
- Quality and patient safety
Schedule overview
- Year 1 to 2: Academic courses, epidemiology, biostatistics, clinical rotations
- Year 3 to 4: Field rotations, infection control, occupational health, research project
Most common encounters
- Outbreak investigation
- Vaccination programs
- Chronic disease screening
- Infection control in hospitals
- Workplace health
- Hajj and mass-gathering health
- Health surveys
- Health policy and planning
Most common procedures
- Outbreak and surveillance analysis
- Statistical analysis
- Program evaluation
- Health education campaigns
- Quality improvement projects
- Screening program design
Fellowships after residency
- Public health leadership (1 year)
- Epidemiology (1 year)
- Occupational medicine (1 year)
- Infection control (1 year)
- Health informatics (1 year)
Lowest accepted score by city
- Jazan: 2026 66.7%, 2025 73.3%
- Tabuk: 2026 68.5%, 2025 77.7%
- Medina: 2026 69.3%, 2025 73.4%
- Alahsa: 2026 69.5%, 2025 75.5%
- Khamis Mushait: 2026 69.5%, 2025 73.4%
- Abha: 2026 72.0%, 2025 74.0%
- Riyadh: 2026 72.7%, 2025 79.3%
- Dammam: 2026 72.9%, 2025 77.1%
- Taif: 2026 73.2%, 2025 74.9%
- Mecca: 2026 73.4%, 2025 75.4%
- Khobar: 2026 73.8%, 2025 78.2%
- Jeddah: 2026 75.8%, 2025 76.0%
- Albahah: 2026 -, 2025 72.5%
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