What the authorities publish, read and explained by a surgeon. Every figure here comes from a document we have transcribed and dated — and where we do not have the document, the guide says so.
Reviewed 4 September 2026
Saudi Arabia exempts doctors trained in seven named countries. Qatar exempts two of its three categories. Dubai publishes its criteria in two separate documents. What each authority actually says about general surgery, with links to the source.
Reviewed 4 September 2026
Dubai and Qatar set the identical sixteen-domain general surgery paper. Saudi Arabia sets no paper at all — it examines you out loud. A side-by-side comparison of the three, from the authorities’ own documents.
Reviewed 4 September 2026
The Saudi general surgery classification is not a multiple-choice paper — it is an oral, marked on four named competence domains, with a rule that can fail you regardless of your score. What the Commission’s own blueprint says.