Psychiatry residency in Saudi Arabia
Diagnosing and treating mental health conditions with medication and talking therapy.
Lowest accepted score 2026 (median): 75.4%. Training length: 4 years.
Rotations during residency
- Inpatient general psychiatry
- Outpatient general psychiatry (6 blocks)
- Consultation-liaison (psychosomatic) psychiatry
- Elective psychiatry rotations
- Child and adolescent psychiatry
- Addiction
- Geriatric psychiatry
- Forensic psychiatry
Schedule overview
- Year 1 to 2: Inpatient and outpatient general psychiatry, plus medicine or neurology blocks
- Year 3 to 4: Consultation-liaison, outpatient psychiatry, electives and subspecialty exposure
Most common encounters
- Depression
- Anxiety disorders
- Schizophrenia and psychosis
- Bipolar disorder
- Substance use
- OCD and PTSD
- ADHD and autism referrals
- Suicidal thoughts
- Delirium on hospital wards
- Sleep problems
Most common procedures
- Psychiatric interview and risk assessment
- Mental state examination
- Medication management and monitoring (such as lithium and clozapine)
- Electroconvulsive therapy (supervised)
- Psychotherapy techniques such as CBT
- Capacity and mental health law assessments
Fellowships after residency
- Child and adolescent (2 to 3 years)
- Addiction (1 year)
- Forensic (1 year)
- Geriatric (1 year)
- Consultation-liaison (2 to 3 years)
- Neuropsychiatry (2 to 3 years)
Lowest accepted score by city
- Najran: 2026 71.0%, 2025 72.5%
- Abha: 2026 71.3%, 2025 76.7%
- Hail: 2026 72.1%, 2025 74.1%
- Khamis Mushait: 2026 73.1%, 2025 74.4%
- Jazan: 2026 73.2%, 2025 71.7%
- Khobar: 2026 73.6%, 2025 80.7%
- Riyadh: 2026 73.8%, 2025 80.8%
- Alahsa: 2026 75.4%, 2025 77.9%
- Arar: 2026 75.4%, 2025 78.5%
- Taif: 2026 76.0%, 2025 77.1%
- Mecca: 2026 76.3%, 2025 80.0%
- Jeddah: 2026 76.9%, 2025 81.9%
- Dammam: 2026 78.4%, 2025 78.8%
- Medina: 2026 78.7%, 2025 76.1%
- Tabuk: 2026 78.7%, 2025 75.3%
- Dhahran: 2026 79.3%, 2025 77.9%
- Buraidah: 2026 80.6%, 2025 73.5%
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