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UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention — General Surgery licensing examination

Gulf · AE · $99, the same everywhere

This exam has its own preparation

We publish the syllabus the MOH UAE is actually set from — in full, free, on that page — along with the two others of the Gulf. No other vendor does: they describe the syllabus, we print it. The oral simulator runs in the Saudi MCSA format, with its four competence domains and the fatal-error rule.

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How this examination works

The Emirates do not have a single licence: Dubai licenses through the DHA, Abu Dhabi through its Department of Health, Dubai’s healthcare free zone through the DHCC, and the federal Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) licenses for the northern emirates — Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah. Four separate doors into one country, and which one applies to you depends on where the hospital that hires you sits, not where you want to live.

Who can sit it

The general surgery examination is delivered by Prometric, like the rest of the Gulf. We have NOT located its syllabus document, so you will not see a domain breakdown here: there is good reason to expect it to follow the Dubai and Qatar pattern — those two turned out to be identical to each other and both cite Saudi sources — but good reason is not verification, and that difference is the whole point of this site. Check requirements and exemption with MOHAP.

Checked against the body itself on 4 September 2026. Procedures change; if this no longer matches what you were asked for, write and tell us.

Examination structure

Written paper — multiple choiceGeneral Surgeon — Prometric licensing examination

Source: https://mohap.gov.ae/en/services/apply-for-healthcare-professional-licensing

The structure above is taken from the examining body. What we have not done yet is transcribe its published syllabus domain by domain, which is what lets us show a coverage table instead of asking you to take our word for it.

5,000

active questions

20

topics with questions

No weighted breakdown for this examination, and why

Ministry of Health and Prevention (northern emirates) does not publish a general surgery syllabus we have been able to obtain, so this page shows no domains and no percentages. Anywhere you see a weighted breakdown for this exam, ask which document it came from. Where an authority does publish one, we transcribe it with the page number and link the original.

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Common questions about this examination

What are the parts of the MOH UAE examination?

Ministry of Health and Prevention (northern emirates) sets 1 component: General Surgeon — Prometric licensing examination (a written multiple-choice paper).

Where is the official MOH UAE syllabus published?

Ministry of Health and Prevention (northern emirates) publishes it at https://mohap.gov.ae/en/services/apply-for-healthcare-professional-licensing. Our question mapping is taken from that document, domain by domain.

What is the MOH UAE examination like?

The Emirates do not have a single licence: Dubai licenses through the DHA, Abu Dhabi through its Department of Health, Dubai’s healthcare free zone through the DHCC, and the federal Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) licenses for the northern emirates — Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah. Four separate doors into one country, and which one applies to you depends on where the hospital that hires you sits, not where you want to live.

Who can sit the MOH UAE?

The general surgery examination is delivered by Prometric, like the rest of the Gulf. We have NOT located its syllabus document, so you will not see a domain breakdown here: there is good reason to expect it to follow the Dubai and Qatar pattern — those two turned out to be identical to each other and both cite Saudi sources — but good reason is not verification, and that difference is the whole point of this site. Check requirements and exemption with MOHAP.

Is there a question bank for the MOH UAE?

This one. 5,000 single-best-answer questions across the whole of general surgery, each with the reasoning for every option rather than only the correct one, written by a consultant surgical oncologist. It is written to the discipline, not transcribed from the MOH UAE blueprint — general surgery is general surgery wherever it is examined, and we say plainly which boards we have mapped and which we have not.

What level are the questions for the MOH UAE?

2,051 of the 5,000 — 41% — sit at the hardest level. For a licence like the MOH UAE that matters differently than it does for an exit board: this is not measuring a residency curriculum but clinical breadth to practise, so what fails candidates is rarely the hard subspecialty question and usually the on-call one that was assumed known. That is why the Gulf bank is cut to the published syllabuses.

What does preparation for the MOH UAE cost?

One payment of $99 for 180 days, the same from wherever you pay — there is no country pricing. It covers the whole bank, the oral simulator and the timed mock papers. Nothing renews and no card is kept on file afterwards. Fifty questions are free with an account, so you can judge the level before paying. All three Gulf syllabuses are published in full and free, whether you buy anything or not.

Every answer above is taken from the examining body’s own published document, not from our reading of it.

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What the access covers for this examination

One access, one price: the whole bank, the timed mock papers and the oral simulator in the Saudi MCSA format. For this examination it also means the published syllabus, which is on that page in full and free whether you buy anything or not. One payment, no renewal, and the same price wherever you pay from.

180 days

$99

Up to 6 oral stations a day, examiner-led and marked by domain. The courses that prepare the Saudi oral charge for a single mock viva.

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