INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ELECTIVE CLERKSHIPS GENERAL INFORMATION

Students, mainly from Europe, United Kingdom, North America, Australia and Africa , apply to the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg to complete elective clerkships at the academic teaching hospitals affiliated to the Medical School.

Eligibility
Students applying for elective clerkships must have completed their basic science training and at least one full year of clinical training in a hospital. In the field of Paediatrics students should preferably have prior clinical experience and be in the final year of study. Students undertaking Trauma, should be in the penultimate or final year of medical studies.  All applicants must have a good command of the English language.

Clerkship Programmes
The clerkship programmes vary considerably. Every effort is made to try to meet the student's particular preference. The following basic options exist:

• The student may undertake a clerkship in clinical departments at either one or two different academic/teaching hospitals in Johannesburg.
• The duration of an elective clerkship can  range from a minimum period of four weeks to  a maximum of sixteen weeks.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENTS
Rotations of not less than 4 consecutive weeks and not more than 16 consecutive weeks can be arranged in the following departments/units:

Emergency Medicine
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital

Anaesthesiology
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital

Medicine
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
Rahima Moosa Mother & Child/Coronation Hospital/Helen Joseph Hospital
Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital 

• Cardiology  (only @ Chris Hani Baragwanath)
• Dermatology
• Endocrinology
• Gastroenterology
• Haematology (only @ Chris Hani Baragwanath)
• Hepatology
• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Oncology  (only @ Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital)
• Pulmonology 
• Rheumatology

Neurological Surgery
Chris Hani Baragwanath

Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Chris Hani Baragwanath
Coronation, Helen Joseph
Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital

Orthopaedic Sugery
Chris Hani Baragwanath
Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital

Paediatrics & Child Health
Chris Hani Baragwanath
Rahima Moosa Mother & Child/Coronation Hospital, Helen Joseph
Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital 

Radiology
Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital

Surgery
Chris Hani Baragwanath
Rahima Moosa Mother & Child/Coronation Hospital/ Helen Joseph
Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital

Cardiothoracic Surgery (only @ Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital)

• Paediatric Surgery (only @ Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital)
• Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (only @) Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital)

Trauma 
Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital

DENTAL
Maxillo-facial and Oral Surgery (only @ Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital)
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