Medical specialist – Public Health Medicine at Gauteng Department of Health

Requirements :

• Appropriate qualification that allows registration with the HPCSA as Medical Specialist in Public Health Medicine. Registration with the HPCSA as Medical Specialist in Public Health Medicine. No experience required after registration with the HPCSA as a Medical Specialist in Public Health Medicine.
• The following will be an added advantage: Further experience after registration with the HPCSA as Public Health Medicine Specialist, relevant post-graduate qualifications, experience of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, postgraduate student supervision, and a publication track record.

Duties :

• The incumbent duties include Support of all teaching at the Department of Community Health, including coordination of the GEMP undergraduate teaching programme.
• Monitoring and evaluation of hospital performance and functioning, review disease profiles and advise hospital management and clinicians accordingly, assist with national core standards, strategic and operational planning of the hospital and the cluster.
• Develop FBU’s as per NHI guidelines. Undertake relevant research performed for priority areas at the hospital, including reviewing policy implementation and case studies to improve quality of care.