Medical Specialists: Trauma and Burns REF NO: MEDSPECT&B/1/2026 at KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health

REQUIREMENTS :

• MBChB or equivalent; Applicants must be in possession of an appropriate higher surgical qualification (FCS(SA) and/or MMed Surg) and currently registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa as a Trauma Surgeon. Registration Certificate as a Specialist Trauma Surgeon. Additional Qualifications: eFAST course, MIMMS and, or ACLS/PALS. DSTC or Burns experience. Cert Trauma (SA) sub-specialist training complete. Preference will be given to applicants who have completed the Cert Trauma (SA) sub-specialist exam.

Experience: 

• Grade 1: Experience Not applicable requires the Fellowship in Surgery of the College of Medicine of South Africa or equivalent, and registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. Applicants must be registered as a specialist in surgery at the commencement of duties. 
• Grade 2: requires appropriate qualification, specialist registration certificate plus 5 years’ experience after registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa as a Medical Specialist in General Surgery. 
• Grade 3 requires appropriate qualification, specialist registration certificate, plus 10 years’ experience after registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa as a Medical Specialist in General Surgery. 

DUTIES :

• Participation in the clinical trauma and burns services: inter disciplinary in-house coordination of the management of the patients:
• supervision of the surgical trainees rotating through the trauma and transplant units: ensuring the highest standards of clinical, professional, and ethical behaviour:
• assist in teaching of undergraduate medical students, postgraduate surgical trainees: conduct, assist, and stimulate research within the ethical guidelines of the Health Care Act: promote education in trauma prevention and transplant community awareness. Physical presence on arrival of scene calls and unstable cases expected.