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Layla Al Mansoori
🇦🇪 VerifiedPharmacist · Sharjah
118d ago
The pharmacology explanations pull from Katzung and the mnemonics stuck. I recommended it to two colleagues who also passed.
Exam Guidelines by Prometric and Pearson VUE
Exam summary, coverage areas and references
Duration
3 hrs
Questions
150
Exam Code
ANA5781
Exam Fee
USD 280
about AED 1,028
Pass Score
65%
Exam Coverage
- Airway
- Thoracic, Cardiac & Vascular
- Neurosurgical & Critical Care Medicine
- Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Neonatal and Pediatric
- Organ Based Anesthesia
- Trauma, Burns & Orthopedic Surgery
- Professionalism and Ethics
- Regional Anesthesia, Acute & Chronic Pain
- Peri Operative Medicine
- Peripheral Nerve Blocks & Epidural & Spinal
- Critical Care Medicine
- Patient Safety
Reference Texts (6)
- 1. Clinical Anesthesiology: Morgan and Mikhail's, Latest Edition.
- 2. Stoelting's Anaesthesia and Co-Existing Disease: Roberta L. Hines MD, Latest Edition.
- 3. Clinical Anaesthesia (Clinical Anesthesia (Barash) Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Latest Edition.
- 4. Anaesthesia, Ronald D. Miller (Churchill Livingstone), Latest Edition.
- 5. Essentials of Anesthesiology, Chung and Lam (W.B. Saunders Company), Latest Edition.
- 6. The ICU Book, Paul L. Marino (Williams and Wilkins), Latest Edition.
Chapters
4.8(492)
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Full-length · timed · 65% to passAbout the Specialist Anesthesia Prometric Exam (ANA5781)
The Specialist Anesthesia Prometric exam is the licensing paper doctors sit for the Specialist Anesthesia professional title, listed by the DHA under code ANA5781. It is the specialist tier, so the authority expects a recognised specialty qualification and the post-qualification experience set out in its classification rules before it will let you book.
ANA5781 is set across 13 blueprint areas: airway, thoracic, cardiac & vascular, neurosurgical & critical care medicine, obstetrics & gynecology, neonatal and pediatric, organ based anesthesia, trauma, burns & orthopedic surgery, professionalism and ethics, regional anesthesia, acute & chronic pain, peri operative medicine, peripheral nerve blocks & epidural & spinal, critical care medicine and patient safety. Questions are written from 6 named reference texts, listed in the guidelines above.
Our ANA5781 bank holds 1,959 explained questions, about 13 times the length of the real sitting.
General guides: Prometric exam guide, Dataflow verification guide and pass marks by authority.
Specialist Anesthesia exam: frequently asked questions
What is the exam code for the Specialist Anesthesia Prometric exam?
ANA5781 is the DHA code for the Specialist Anesthesia paper in the Physicians listing.
How many questions are in the Specialist Anesthesia exam and how long is it?
150 multiple-choice questions in 3 hours, about 1.2 minutes per question.
What is the pass mark for the Specialist Anesthesia Prometric exam?
65% under the DHA guideline for ANA5781, which is 98 of 150 questions answered correctly.
How much is the ANA5781 exam fee?
The DHA guideline lists USD 280 (about AED 1,028) for the ANA5781 sitting.
What topics does the Specialist Anesthesia exam cover?
The official blueprint splits the paper across 13 areas: Airway, Thoracic, Cardiac & Vascular, Neurosurgical & Critical Care Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Neonatal and Pediatric, Organ Based Anesthesia, Trauma, Burns & Orthopedic Surgery, Professionalism and Ethics, Regional Anesthesia, Acute & Chronic Pain, Peri Operative Medicine, Peripheral Nerve Blocks & Epidural & Spinal, Critical Care Medicine and Patient Safety.
Which authorities accept the Specialist Anesthesia Prometric exam?
DHA, MOHAP, DOH, SCFHS, QCHP, NHRA and OMSB list experience rules for the Specialist tier this paper belongs to: DHA 3 years in specialty after board qualification; MOHAP 3 years in specialty post-board; DOH 5 years post-qualification (3 in specialty); SCFHS 4 years post-qualification (2 in specialty); QCHP 3 years in specialty after board qualification; NHRA 3 years in specialty post-board; OMSB 3 years in specialty post-board.
How should I prepare for ANA5781?
Start with Airway and Thoracic, Cardiac & Vascular, then work through the 1,959 explained MCQs chapter by chapter and sit the timed mocks until you clear 65% with margin.
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Licensing authorities that use this exam
Minimum experience for the Specialist tier, by authority.
| Authority | Specialist experience |
|---|---|
| DHA | 3 years in specialty after board qualification |
| MOHAP | 3 years in specialty post-board |
| DOH | 5 years post-qualification (3 in specialty) |
| SCFHS | 4 years post-qualification (2 in specialty) |
| QCHP | 3 years in specialty after board qualification |
| NHRA | 3 years in specialty post-board |
| OMSB | 3 years in specialty post-board |
What candidates are saying
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Maria Santos
🇵🇭 VerifiedRegistered Nurse · Manila
12d ago
Question quality is very close to the actual exam. Wish I had found this earlier - would have saved me two months of scattered PDF revision.
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Adaeze Okafor
🇳🇬 VerifiedRegistered Nurse · Lagos
47d ago
I was nervous about the DHA process from Nigeria. The eligibility checker on the site told me exactly which authorities I qualified for. Enrolled the same day.
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Grace Lim
🇵🇭 VerifiedNurse · Cebu → Riyadh
92d ago
The team helped me with documentation guidance beyond just the exam. Actually landed a hospital placement thanks to their talent pool.
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Farhan Ali
🇵🇰 VerifiedAssistant Nurse · Rawalpindi
142d ago
Was worried about my English medical vocab. The explanations are written simply - non-native speakers will feel at home.
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Fatima Al Balushi
🇴🇲 VerifiedAssistant Midwife · Muscat
26d ago
The team on WhatsApp answered my licensing questions within an hour. That kind of support you don't see with the big test-prep sites.
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Yousef Al Kaabi
🇦🇪 VerifiedGeneral Practice · Al Ain
66d ago
Local candidate here - passed MOHAP without an exam thanks to the eligibility route they showed me. Then I enrolled anyway for CPD.
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Bilal Sheikh
🇵🇰 VerifiedRadiology Tech · Multan
112d ago
Solid. A couple of image-based questions could use better resolution but nothing that changes the answer. Passed DHA tech exam.
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