Rural Allowance: No
Doctors Quarters:
- Don’t live at Doctor’s Quarters however it is near addington hospital. If you placed at MGMH you would need to travel.
- Shared bathrooms (1 per floor of 6 units). Some water and electricity issues at times. But good location and big.
- Don’t hold your breath. There are no doctor’s quaters at MGMH and those at ADH I would not recommend using.
- 1 room and 6 people share the same bathroom , the building is old with 7th floors. The lift is not working.
- Didn’t stay there.
- I haven’t personally been into the DQ so difficult to comment, however friends that are there haven’t had many positive things to say.
- I’ve never been to DQ.
Academics:
- There is not a lot of teaching or research done at MGMH apart from the CME meeting required by hpcsa.
Some learning comes from round however interns mainly need to do procedures, tracing results, dropping or fetching bloods etc. “ - MGMH: medicine and paeds have excellent academics.
O&G, fam med: none at all
ADH: O&G and fam med academic
Paeds and medicine poor academics.” - Depending on the department, some of them are very determined to help/teach interns and others just seem to not care enough to.
- There’s is always a senior around to help you and guide you but from November 2020 we are in divert not much exposure.
- Anaesthetic, orthopedics, O&G have a good academic program for interns with daily lecture and teaching.
- Surgery and internal medicine are very poorly run and the academic program is also poor.
- Balanced acedemic and practical experience.
- It’s very department dependent and you get what you put in – they’ll teach you if you want.
- You won’t be hand fed academic tuts. However if you want to learn, there’s plenty time to do procedures and if you read up on your patients, you’ll learn a lot.
- Depends block to block, and how much you want to learn and how many questions you want to ask.
- Department specific. Anaesthetics, OBGYN and paeds very good.
Supervision:
- A lot of supervision is available. It is reassuring to have someone to always discuss cases with.
- Supervision at MGMH is quite poor, however you do learn a lot.
Supervision at Addington is a lot better. - Again depending on the department. Paeds, surgery, internal and anaesthetics have really good supervision. There is always someone to ask if you don’t know. Obs, ortho and fammed you are kind of on your own.
- Almost all the final plan is from the senior.
- Average all round supervision.
- Sometimes too supervised.
- “Depends on the rotation and depends how competent the MOs think you are. Paeds they over supervise, fam med you’re on your own. (At mgmh)”
- Plenty of supervision with enough independence to develop as a person
Clinical Exposure:
- Since it is a district hospital a lot of the cases that require specialists are not seen at our hospital. The ‘interesting clinical cases’ are referred thus have a missed learning opportunity.
- Excellent broad exposure, especially at MGMH. The limited supervision May augment this.
- If you end up doing most of your internship at MGMH you are going to get a lot of exposure to all sorts of things. Don’t get me wrong, you will work extremely hard but at least you learn a lot while doing so.
- Lifts are currently broken since last year, we are on divert.
- Got a good range of pathologies.
- You learn a lot about primary and district health but you up refer most specialty patients.
- Exposed to a wide variety of cases.
- Interesting cases, nice mix of complicated with bread and butter.
- Ample opportunity to practice skills and be hands on.
Social Scene:
- Despite being a small hospital, it is extremely busy with a small number of doctors. As a result calls are many and weekends are seldom. At most you will get a Saturday and Sunday off in a month. These 2 days are mainly for recovering for the next month.
- If your group does not organize a get-together every once in a while nothing will happen.
- The beach man…
- We are not really a very sociable group.
- It’s the beach. Totally depends on you though.
Additional Comments:
- Bias: only rotated at MGMH.
- Lots of clinical exposure. Moderate supervision. Academics not so great.
- If you don’t mind working hard and not always have supervision then this is not a bad hospital to do internship. Some of the rotations were amazing while others I felt had some questionable management ideas. Overall exhausting but good clinical exposure
- It’s a good hospital though we didn’t get much exposure since unstable patients are sent to other hospitals nearby.
- Departments seem to either be very well run (O&G, Ortho & Anaesthetics) with good supervision and academic teaching or extremely poor (Internal & Surgery).
Pediatrics and family medicine are average. For the most part Addington is very manageable in terms of work load and being right on the beach certainly has many pros. You learn to live with the cons of living at the beach. Don’t expect Western Cape Health standards in KZN.
There is a good social community in Durban. Not a bad internship experience if you are willing to self study and take responsibility in some departments. - “I haven’t done orthos/anaesth/psych yet.
If you apply here, there’s a 50% chance you will get Addington and do all your rotations there, and a 50% chance you’ll get mgmh, in which case you do obs, paeds and fam med at mgmh, and orthos, psych, anaesthetics, surg and internal at Dr pixley Ka Seme hospital “ - I don’t know why no one really seems to apply here, but it’s beautiful. And with a good internship group it could be even more amazing
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