Health Department Puts placements for Medical Trainees Three days Before Start Date
The department of Health says it has finalized the placement of more than 1100 medical interns and junior doctors for the medical internship and community service programme.1 Some junior doctors are still waiting to be placed in the community service programme.2 The health department went on to say that the 2023 mid-year internships and community service allocation process have been concluded and that all final-year medical students, who will become doctors, will become eligible after 1 July, can only be allocated to hsopitals in the cycle which starts in January 2024.3 1st of July was yesterday, Saturday. So their time as medical students started then. An email, shown to News 24, informed the doctors they would receive word of their allocations on or by 13 June.4 But they still had not ...