Community Service Reviews

CMSA Accreditations: None

Rural Allowance: Yes

Doctors Quarters:

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Academics:

• The hospital is trying to have weekly outreach programs, where consultants come from MPH to review patients, so far ortho comes biweekly and surgery once a week. Other than that no academics

Supervision:

• Fellow colleagues are all very helpful but otherwise youre very independent

Clinical Exposure:

• It’s a district hospital so bigger cases usually go straight to MPH or sometimes come via our casualty before referral. Otherwise + + advanced RVD, TB, CCF and broken bones. Also alot of SAM babies and ICAs

Departments worked in:

• Internal Medicine, Surgery, Emergency Department – They’re currently rebuilding the theater so there is no cutting time at all, including C/S. There are no set dept. But wards are divided into maternity, paeds, male medical, male surgical and then female medical and surgical combined, and OPD/casualty. Mainly medical cases, not that much trauma besides the odd ICD here and there.

Social Scene:

• 1 hour from mafikeng, hospital surrounded by farm land

Additional Comments:

• Not that hectic, you get time to do as many courses as you want, but it’s not really a stepping stone hospital in order to become a reg.