Urology residency in Saudi Arabia
Kidney, bladder, prostate and male reproductive conditions, mostly surgical.
Lowest accepted score 2026 (median): 69.0%. Training length: 5 years.
Rotations during residency
- General surgery (36 weeks)
- Critical care (12 weeks)
- Emergency (4 weeks)
- Urology R1 to R2 (36 weeks)
- Selectives (up to 8 weeks)
- Senior urology with graded responsibility (24 weeks)
- Pediatric urology (at least 24 weeks)
- Core urology blocks (stones, oncology, endourology, andrology, reconstruction)
Schedule overview
- R1 to R2: General surgery 36 weeks, critical care 12, emergency 4, urology 36, selectives up to 8
- R3 to R5: Core urology blocks to reach 144 weeks, including 24 weeks of senior responsibility and 24+ weeks of pediatric urology
Most common encounters
- Kidney stones and renal colic
- Enlarged prostate and urinary retention
- Urinary tract infection
- Blood in urine
- Prostate, bladder and kidney cancers
- Erectile dysfunction and infertility
- Undescended testis
- Testicular torsion
- Urinary incontinence
- Kidney transplant referrals
Most common procedures
- Cystoscopy
- Transurethral resection of the prostate
- Ureteroscopy and laser lithotripsy
- Percutaneous nephrolithotomy
- Prostatectomy
- Nephrectomy
- Circumcision
- Catheter and stent insertion
- Robotic or laparoscopic surgery (some programs)
Fellowships after residency
- Endourology (1 year)
- Uro-oncology (2 to 3 years)
- Pediatric urology (2 to 3 years)
- Female urology (1 year)
- Andrology (1 year)
- Transplant (3 years)
- Reconstructive urology (1 year)
Lowest accepted score by city
- Najran: 2026 53.4%, 2025 67.9%
- Riyadh: 2026 60.3%, 2025 82.2%
- Aljowf: 2026 62.5%, 2025 65.8%
- Jeddah: 2026 62.9%, 2025 79.5%
- Alahsa: 2026 63.3%, 2025 79.4%
- Abha: 2026 64.5%, 2025 76.6%
- Jazan: 2026 67.5%, 2025 72.9%
- Albahah: 2026 68.5%, 2025 73.0%
- Tabuk: 2026 69.0%, 2025 74.1%
- Taif: 2026 69.6%, 2025 73.9%
- Mecca: 2026 71.2%, 2025 73.9%
- Dhahran: 2026 71.8%, 2025 81.7%
- Medina: 2026 78.1%, 2025 78.3%
- Khobar: 2026 78.3%, 2025 80.8%
- Khamis Mushait: 2026 80.1%, 2025 70.5%
- Buraidah: 2026 80.6%, 2025 78.3%
- Dammam: 2026 82.4%, 2025 83.3%
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