Best General Surgery in Dubai 2026

As of 2026-04-03, Dubai's medical register listed 727 general surgery professionals. Of these, 460 hold a full-time licence (FTL) at a Dubai facility and 264 are Registered Only (REG), meaning registered with DHA but not currently licensed at a facility. The licensed professionals work across 167 healthcare facilities. Data comes from the Sheryan Medical Registry.

Based on staff count, Rashid Hospital - Dubai Health has the largest general surgery department in Dubai with 26 licensed general surgery professionals on staff, followed by Kings College Hospital London (17 staff).

General Surgery doctors are listed in order of the size of the facility that holds their licence, measured by the number of professionals licensed there on the Sheryan Medical Registry. That is an ordering by facility size, not a measure of clinical quality: the register carries no outcome data and no patient reviews. Only doctors with a full-time licence (FTL) are included, and there are no paid placements.

Both are licence titles under the unified UAE Professional Qualification Requirements (PQR), which DHA applies in Dubai. A General Surgery Specialist holds a recognised specialty qualification and needs no further experience if it is graded Tier 1 or Tier 2. A General Surgery Consultant needs 2 years of experience after a Tier 1 qualification or 5 years after Tier 2, and a Tier 3 qualification cannot lead to the Consultant title. The register lists the two titles separately.

You can verify any general surgery doctor's licence through the Sheryan portal run by Dubai's health regulator. Search by doctor name or licence number to confirm their licence status, specialty, and current facility affiliation. The 727 general surgery professionals listed here come from the Sheryan Medical Registry.