Radie Kotze Hospital

Community Service Reviews Western Cape
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CMSA Accreditations: None

Rural Allowance: Yes

Doctors Quarters:

  • No comments yet.

Academics:

  • Very infrequent topical presentations. Some academic teaching from consultants at Paarl on outreaches monthly.

Supervision:

  • No supervision. No senior support at all and unenthusiastic seniors. No support from management.

Clinical Exposure:

  • No theatre cases except MVAs under conscious sedation.

Departments worked in:

  • Internal Medicine, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Psychiatry, ARV clinic, Emergency Department, OPD’s - No departments. You do ward rounds in male and female wards, manage labour ward, EC and Piketberg clinic and multiple other small outlying clinics.

Social Scene:

  • It’s a rural farming town. The local people are very friendly and welcoming though. You can make some good friends if you manage to meet them.

Additional Comments:

  • Not recommended.

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Evening may I please getore insight into this hospital?
•what does overtime look like?
•how many beds/wards on the entire hospital?
•is this an accredited facility to persue a DipPEC?
•is there allocated study leave?
•how many comserves are usually takem?
•what is the qorking environment like?
•and since there are no departments, how do you get allocated?

Thank youbin advance

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Hi @Naomi

It might not answer all your questions, but this is what I can say from what others/friends have said over the years:

  1. Don’t know about overtime but since it has a casualty and it’s a small hospital, you’ll probably cover both wards and EC when on call.
  2. It has about 24 beds, all in one ward.
  3. No, it’s not accredited for DipPEC.
  4. Can’t tell you about study leave, sorry.
  5. They previously took 2 comm serves up until 2020, not sure about now.
    6 + 7. Working environment will probably depend on who your fellow comm serve is - make sure you guys help each other and form a decent team. There is very little supervision so you are very hands-on. All the patients are in one ward so you aren’t limited to a specific department. My guess is that you rotate between covering wards/casualty/clinics.

If you get placed here then I would suggest you get very familiar with the STG & EML guidelines - make sure you always have them at hand to help you manage patients well, they really help a lot! :slightly_smiling_face:

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Thank you so much! Your response really helped a lot and put thimgs into perspective.

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