The Department of Health aims to provide quality health services and ensure a caring climate for service users, implement best-practice health care strategies, create a positive work environment for staff, and provide appropriate and top-quality training for health workers. Our vision is to provide high-quality, efficient and accessible healthcare to transform people's lives. Our mission is to create an effective public healthcare system in Gauteng by ensuring we have the right people, skills, system and equipment to provide the care our patients need to live healthy and quality lives.
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Appropriate qualification that allows registration with the HPCSA as Medical Officer. Registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as an Independent Medical Practitioner.
Current HPCSA registration for 2025/2026. Post Community Service Passed Primary exams of the college of the surgeons and ATLS certificate.
Exposure as a Medical Officer in a training institution in a relevant department
Duties :
Perform duties according to guidelines from the Department of Surgery joint with the University of Witwatersrand. Render a full spectrum of Surgery Inpatient and Outpatient services.
Provide clinical guidance to designated clinic staff. Perform department administrative duties and post graduate students. Initiate and participate in clinical research. Render after-hours clinical services.
Progression through the registrar programme including rotation through other teaching hospitals on the Wits Surgical training circuit is expected.