Community Service Reviews

CMSA Accreditations: None

Rural Allowance: Yes

Doctors Quarters:

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Academics:

• “Weekly CPD presentations, but often didn’t happen due to covid.”
• District hospital, so not much in terms of teaching. Academics are in the form of weekly Friday CPD meetings for the whole hospital

Supervision:

• Given a lot of space to work independently (most of the time), but there is usually someone you can contact (may not physically be there) for second opinion.
• Not much supervision, you’re expected to work independently. But there’s always a senior MO you can call for help

Clinical Exposure:

• Exposed to a wide range of conditions and trauma.
• The casualty can get quite busy, so you can get exposure to many different types of conditions

Departments worked in:

• Emergency Department, OPD’s
• Internal Medicine, Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Anaesthetics, Emergency Department, OPD’s – Most comm serves get to choose their preferred department (depending on the hospital’s needs and number of comm serves requesting that dept). Lots of cutting time in obs.

Social Scene:

• Nothing really to do in the area (besides Sun City and Pilansberg, but they’ve been mostly closed with covid). For anything social/going out, you need to go into Rustenburg.
• Non-existent! It’s a rural hospital in the middle of a village. Most people go to Rustenburg to shop and socialise (about 40 mins away)

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