Medical Registrar needed at Gauteng Department of Health

Requirements :

• An appropriate qualification that allows for registration with HPCSA as a Medical Practitioner. Registration with the HPCSA as Medical Practitioner and current registration.
• The following will be added advantages: At least two years of relevant work experience after registration with the HPCSA as an independent Medical Practitioner post-community service, and a relevant post-graduate master’s qualification.

Duties :

• The Registrar post is a training post. The registrar training programme runs over four years. The training includes working, as part of experiential learning, at rotation sites that include the Johannesburg health district, national health institutes and other service delivery sites within, and affiliated to, the Gauteng Department of Health.
• It also includes further training withing the Department of Community Health, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, to facilitate completion of a Master of Medicine (MMed) in Public Health Medicine as well as other requirements directed by the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, to become a Fellow (Specialist) of the College of Public Health Medicine (CPHM) upon successful completion of FCPHM exams.
• The successful candidate will be expected to participate in the Department’s academic program and any related teaching and research activities. There are opportunities to perform overtime work in another area within the Gauteng Department of Health.