Rural Allowance: No
Doctors Quarters:
- Shared bathrooms. No furniture.
- You share the bathroom with everyone in the building and they hardly get cleaned especially if the cleaner is on leave. only two laundry machine shared by everyone including nurses there’s always a queue.
- On the premises but residents were always complaining about cold water and broken windows.
- Problems with safety, electricity, water and rats.Some provided if necessary but is actually just the nursing home. Can be very noisy I’ve heard over weekends specifically and not really safe.
Academics:
- No boring big academic ward rounds, definitely supervision in each department if you’re keen to learn.
- You will be definitely be taught during calls and ward rounds.
- Depends on the department. Ortho, paeds, O&G are good, surgery and anaesthesia not so much. Internal med is too busy for academics really, even before covid.
- Depends on how much you want to learn, seniors are mostly keen to teach if you ask.
- Some departments are more academically inclined than others.
Supervision:
- Can be doctor dependant.
- Your senior is always around if not you can get hold of them for supervision.
- Always seniors available. Mostly medical officers. Registrars in paeds, surgery, ortho and o&g only and sometimes in fam med. Psychiatry often had no consultant and quality of supervision is poor.
- Depends on the speciality and MO.
- Always a senior to ask for guidance.
Clinical Exposure:
- You will be exposed to a variety of clinical conditions.
- Very busy hospital. Amazing trauma and paeds exposure. Gynae also amazing. Obstetrics is too hectic and patient overload.
- A very large population is served, so trauma, casualty and obstetrics pump.
- Probably the best or second best place to learn in GP.
Social Scene:
- Always tired to socialise.
- Close to Pretoria/Irene and OR tambo.
- Kind of not a big thing at Tembisa.
- Really depends on your group and preferences.
Additional Comments:
- Be prepared to work hard, with many late days. In your 1st year rotations.
- If you really want to be ready for comserve and be able to independent post internship trust tembisa it will definitely get you ready for comserve.
- Unbelievably busy and hard but you will learn everything you need to know. Makes comm serve easier.
- Wasn’t one of my choices, but if I could choose again I would make it my first choice. Great exposure and surprisingly safe access from the R21 for the “rural” feel.
- Avoid Tembisa. It’s not worth it.
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