Description
Botswana Emergency Medicine Update, April 2012
The University of Botswana School of Medicine is recruiting qualified emergency physicians to join a
dedicated team that launched the country’s first emergency medicine residency in January 2011. We currently have three 2nd year residents, four 1st year residents, and 3rd year MBBS students rotating at our clinical teaching site, Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone.
The UB Emergency Medicine Residency is a four-year Masters of Medicine (M Med) program. Botswana is a vast but sparsely populated country of two million people. At Princess Marina Hospital, we attend a population, which, by international standards would be considered unusually young and sick: Trauma and AIDS complications most affect those between the ages of 20 and 50. We admit between 30-50% of our patients, of whom several per day are suffering from septic shock. We recently acquired our own ultrasound machine and are training our residents and other hospital staff in its use.
Interested? We can assure you it is quite difficult to get bored with an emergency job in Botswana. We still have several full-time positions to fill (2 year contract). Salaries vary according to eligible academic rank.
How to apply
For more information, email Dr. Chandra at: Amit.Chandra@mopipi.ub.bw
