Community Service Reviews Taylor Bequest District Hospital CMSA Accreditations: None Rural Allowance: Yes Doctors Quarters: No comments yet. Academics: No comments yet. Supervision: The hospital is run by chronic MOs. The best supervision was re maternity. Otherwise I usually rather got advice from the tertiary hospital. Clinical Exposure: There is a busy

Community Service Reviews Madwaleni District Hospital CMSA Accreditations: None Rural Allowance: Yes Doctors Quarters: No comments yet. Academics: Decent teaching from family medicine registrars /experienced MOs and consultants. Weekly presentations and regular journal clubs. Daily morning meetings and handover sessions. Weekly tutorials and article appraisal. Super academic place. Supervision: Always have a

Community Service Reviews Nompumelelo Hospital CMSA Accreditations: None Rural Allowance: Yes Doctors Quarters: No comments yet. Academics: There was an initiative by the Internal Medicine department at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital to have weekly zoom tutorials to cover topics that are relevant for district hospitals. This included topics from Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine

Community Service Reviews Cecilia Makiwane Hospital CMSA Accreditations:DCH(SA) DCH(SA)DA(SA) DA(SA) Rural Allowance: No Doctors Quarters: No comments yet. Academics: Depends on the department. Spent 7 months in Internal Medicine. Very academic , you learn a lot Supervision: other MOs, registrars, consultants always around. Always help and supervision around. Consultants ready to assist at

Community Service Reviews Dordrecht Hospital CMSA Accreditations: None Rural Allowance: Yes Doctors Quarters: No comments yet. Academics: Non existantNone. Questionable advice usually given from referral hospital. Supervision: None in hospital and very poor support from referral centres No supervision. No senior doctors, no consultant input at all. Referral centre very hesitant to

Community Service Reviews Frontier Regional Hospital CMSA Accreditations:Dip Ophth(SA) Dip Ophth(SA) Rural Allowance: Yes Doctors Quarters: No comments yet. Academics: Not an academic institution Supervision: Not enough specialists Clinical Exposure: No rotation to different departments. Allocation of Department chosen for you Departments worked in: Obstetrics & Gynaecology – No exposure to Major

Community Service Reviews Hewu Hospital CMSA Accreditations: None Rural Allowance: Yes Doctors Quarters: No comments yet. Academics: All of my knowledge and management of patients came from internship. The senior doctors (myself and another Comm serve being the only other doctors) had outdated clinical knowledge. Once a month the district obs and

Community Service Reviews Aliwal North Hospital CMSA Accreditations: None Rural Allowance: No Doctors Quarters: No comments yet. Academics: No comments yet. Supervision: No comments yet. Clinical Exposure: No comments yet. Departments worked in: Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Emergency Department, OPD’s Social Scene: No comments yet. Additional Comments: No comments yet. Read about furthering

Community Service Reviews Lady Grey Hospital CMSA Accreditations: None Rural Allowance: Yes Doctors Quarters: No comments yet. Academics: No comments yet. Supervision: No comments yet. Clinical Exposure: No comments yet. Departments worked in: Internal Medicine, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Emergency Department, OPD’s Social Scene: No comments yet. Additional Comments: No

Community Service Reviews Maclear Hospital CMSA Accreditations: None Rural Allowance: Yes Doctors Quarters: No comments yet. Academics: No comments yet. Supervision: No comments yet. Clinical Exposure: No comments yet. Departments worked in: Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Emergency Department, OPD’s – there are no departments you do everything Internal Medicine, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Obstetrics

Community Service Reviews Leatitia Bam CHC CMSA Accreditations: None Rural Allowance: No Doctors Quarters: No comments yet. Academics: There is none. But you have a bit of time to aid your own learning. No diplomas unfortunately, not even HIV Supervision: Almost no supervision. You are the only doctor on during the day

Community Service Reviews Midland Hospital CMSA Accreditations: None Rural Allowance: Yes Doctors Quarters: No comments yet. Academics: No comments yet. Supervision: Great 24hour senior support Clinical Exposure: No comments yet. Departments worked in: Internal Medicine, Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Anaesthetics, Psychiatry, ARV clinic, Emergency Department, OPD’s – You do everything, by the

Community Service Reviews Uitenhage Provincial Hospital Accreditation: Only for Anaesthesia. Rural Allowance:None Doctors Quarters:Present and pretty decent, though I did not make use of them. Academics:A few M&Ms are held each year – you only attend those relevant to your call areas (e.g., doctors doing labour ward calls attend the O&G

Community Service Reviews Humansdorp Hospital CMSA Accreditations: None Rural Allowance: Yes Doctors Quarters: No comments yet. Academics: There is none Supervision: No supervision Clinical Exposure: You will see a lot of pathology and trauma and have to handle that Departments worked in: Internal Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Emergency Department Social