The Kuwait MOH GP Blueprint Explained: 150 Items by Discipline and Subsection

The official counts

These are the subsection counts as read on 25 October 2026. Names are shortened slightly; the numbers are exactly as published.

Medicine: 45 items

Obstetrics and Gynaecology: 38 items

Paediatrics: 37 items

Surgery: 30 items

The section totals add up to 150, so we can cross-check our reading: 45 + 38 + 37 + 30 = 150.

How we regroup the counts into nine study domains

The blueprint is a list of 50 or so subsections. Nobody revises that way, so we merge related subsections into nine study domains. The merging is ours, and the percentages are our arithmetic on the official counts. They are editorial groupings, not weights from the Ministry.

Reading the blueprint discipline by discipline

Medicine: wide and shallow

Medicine has 16 lines for 45 items, so most lines carry two or three items. Only cardiology, pulmonary, gastroenterology and hepatology, and nephrology reach four or more. This means a Medicine block of the paper touches many specialties lightly. You cannot predict which cardiology topic appears, but you can be sure the paper will visit endocrine, neurology, infection, haematology, rheumatology, oncology, critical care, psychiatry and geriatrics at least once each. Prepare a clean one-page summary of the commonest presentations in each.

Obstetrics and Gynaecology: deep in the middle

Here the weight sits in three subsections: General Obstetrics 13, General Gynaecology 13 and Subspecialties 7. Together they are 33 of 38 items. Obstetric emergencies, antenatal care, labour, contraception, bleeding disorders and gynaecological cancers are the safe core. The subspecialty block, which in standard textbooks covers infertility, reproductive endocrinology, urogynaecology and oncology, deserves a measured share of time because seven items is a lot for a block most GPs rarely touch.

Paediatrics: breadth with a heavy front end

General Paediatrics (10), Ambulatory (5) and Neonatology (3) make up 18 of 37 items. The remaining 19 are scattered across about 16 system lines with one or two items each. A sensible approach is to master growth, development, immunisation, fever, common infections and newborn care, then give each system a short, common-conditions summary.

Surgery: concentrated in general surgery

Half of the Surgery items, 15 of 30, are in General Surgery. Trauma and Acute Care Surgery is next with 6. Basic Principles and Subspecialties each have 3. Surgical candidates sometimes think this is their home territory. It is not automatically so: the surgery in a GP paper is about recognition, resuscitation, first investigations and referral, not operative detail.

Turning item counts into a time budget

A simple rule is to give each study domain a share of your revision time proportional to its item count, then shift extra hours to your weak areas. On a 12-week plan with about 120 hours of content study, the proportional split looks like this. These are editorial figures to adapt, not rules.

The ethics row is rounded up on purpose. It is a domain you can bring from 50% to 80% in a few days, and the gain in marks per hour is among the best on the paper.

How to check the blueprint is still current

The document we read has no title, date or version, so there is no way to know from the file itself whether a newer one exists. Three habits protect you.

• Open the Prometric Ministry of Health Kuwait exam page and follow the link to the blueprints again in the week you book.
• Compare the General Practitioner section with our table. If the numbers differ, trust the Prometric document and let us know.
• Ask the Medical Licensing Department whether the General Practitioner blueprint has been revised since the last publication.

Why pull ethics out into its own domain

The blueprint places ethics, preventive and patient safety lines inside each discipline, so in the live paper they may read as questions about a pregnant woman, a child or a surgical patient. For revision, though, the underlying principles are the same in every setting: consent and capacity, confidentiality, disclosure of errors, screening principles, immunisation and safety checklists. Learning them once and applying them four times is more efficient than relearning them in each discipline. That is why we group them. In a clinical stem you will still need the discipline knowledge to answer.

What the blueprint tells you

• Relative importance. Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology together hold 83 of 150 items (55.3%).
• Breadth. Every discipline has several subsections, so the paper favours broad coverage over deep expertise in one area.
• The cross-cutting requirement. Each discipline reserves items for ethics, prevention and patient safety.
• Reference texts. It lists the textbooks and guides that define the expected knowledge level. See the reference textbooks guide.

What the blueprint does not tell you

Using the blueprint in your plan

1. Print the table. Tick each subsection as you complete a topic block on it.
2. Weight your time by items and weakness. The study plan guide gives schedules that do this.
3. Check coverage before the mocks. Every one of the 9 domains should have at least two question blocks behind it.
4. Revisit the document before you book. A revised blueprint changes your plan, so check the Prometric link again.

For the highest-return topics inside the big subsections, see the high-yield topics guide.

Questions this document cannot answer

A blueprint is a plan for the paper, not a record of what appeared. It cannot tell you which conditions will be tested in your sitting, how hard each item is, or how many of the 150 items are pretest items that do not count. That is why we treat it as a guide to proportion and not as a prediction, and why the rest of this hub puts weight on breadth, practice under time pressure and honest review.