Community Service Reviews

CMSA Accreditations: None (as listed on CMSA website 2024).

Rural Allowance: Yes

Duration of Rotation: 12 months

Doctors Quarters:

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Academics:

• You can do DCH, Dip in HIV, Dip A and Dip in Obs and Gyne but these are self study.

Supervision:

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Clinical Exposure:

• You will see everything (no jokes) and will be able to do little to help. Your calls are either ward & Anes, obs & peads or in casualty. The hospital does >600 a month. You will have obs exposure if you like it or not.

Departments worked in:

• Surgery, Emergency Department – If you want to cut you can do a lot of C/S, amputations and small things. You will become independent and figure out how to do things by googling them or winging it.
• Internal Medicine, Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Emergency Department, OPD’s
• Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Emergency Department, OPD’s

Social Scene:

• The surrounding farms’ people and other commserves will be your saving grace.

Additional Comments:

• Themba hospital (the referring hospital) is unhelpful at best and you will struggle to refer. Rob Ferreira hospital will not help you unless you have a loophole. Do not mix this hospital up with Shongwe. That place is great and you will hate them for it.
• Poor supervision, comm serve run hospital.