Clinical Services

Clinical Dermatology is vibrant and busy offering both inpatient and outpatient services at Groote Schuur (Link) and Red Cross Hospitals (Link). A private inpatient dermatology service is offered by sessional consultants from our team at the UCT Private Academic Hospital (Link) which is housed within the New Groote Hospital Building. We also provide consultation services to neighbouring Hospitals and primary care practitioners as needed. Nurse-lead dermatology clinics are being established with the most functional site at the Mitchell Plain Community Health Centre. A tele-dermatology patient referral service augments our outreach program www.vulamobile.com

The Laser Unit: the only academic Laser unit for dermatology in the country - a kind donation from the Oasis Trust.

Phototherapy and Skin Day Care Unit. On average 60 patients receive phototherapy and/or day care per week with 400 to 500 patient visits a month.

Teaching

Consultants and registrars are involved in lectures and tutorials for medical students in 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th years of the MBChB program.

Together with the Division of Nursing the unit previously ran a short course for registered nurses providing them with the skills necessary to run community clinics. For the first time (2015) the course was offered as a blended 2 month course (2 weeks contact and rest on-line) for both doctors and professional nurses. This innovative one-of-a-kind program aims to improve the diagnosis and treatment of primary-care skin disease.

Postgraduate teaching takes place daily in the outpatient clinics and during inpatient consultations. There number of state funded registrar training posts in the Division of Dermatology is inadequate for the clinical load. We are privileged to train supernumerary registrars without whom we would not be able to meet our clinical service and teaching requirements. We have a united nations of Africa in the 4-year specialist training program with doctors from Chad, Botswana, Namibia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Qualifications:

Master of Medicine – MMed (FCDerm)

Doctor of Philosophy – PhD (Med)