Medicine
Welcome to Stellenbosch University

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Department of Medic​​​ine​

Divisio​​n ​​of General Internal Medicine 


Ab​o​ut

General Internal Medicine (GIM) is the largest division in the Department of Medicine attached to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital.

 

Clinical Services​ and Social Impact 

The clinical service activities are divided into emergency admissions, in-patient care including high care and out-patient services. There are 164 inpatient beds in the division's medical wards. The division is organized into 5 inpatient firms, an Emergency Admissions team, and an Adult Medical High Care Unit. The Division also runs a Medical Outpatient Clinic 4 times per week. 

Tygerberg Hospital provides regional and tertiary care to half of the greater Cape Metropole and tertiary care to the adjacent rural districts of the West Coast/Cape Winelands and Boland/Overberg. 

We have an active clinical out-reach program to Khayelitsha Hospital, Helderberg Hospital and Karl Bremer Hospital. The out-reach activity includes consultant ward rounds, student and medical officer training and strategic support.

 

Teaching and Learnin​​g 

Most of the undergraduate bedside clinical teaching for Internal Medicine takes place in GIM. Students from years 4, 5 and 6 are placed into the clinical teams for clinical rotations for bedside clinical training in Acute Medicine and Ambulatory Care.

The division also accommodates the largest number of postgraduate students (registrars) as part of the MMed Internal Medicine degree and the Colleges of Medicine FCP training program.

 

Research

The division is involved in MMed research project supervision and publishes several peer reviewed publications each year.​


​Head: Dr Neshaad Schrueder

Email


Consultants:

  • Dr Neshaad Schrueder (Head) 
  • Dr AJ Viljoen
  • Dr G Van Wyk
  • Dr K Somers
  • Dr L Kearney
  • Dr CJ Burton
  • Dr A Broadhurst
  • Dr I Fredericks

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Student applications:

Undergraduate Applications – info@sun.ac.za

Postgraduate Applications – Dr N Schrueder​

 

Supernumerary Registrars

The department has several international post graduate students in supernumerary positions on the 4 year training program, with the aim of qualifying as Specialist Physicians.  

Contact Dr K Somers or Ms G Hill gralene@sun.ac.za

 

Elective students

Our excellent pre-graduate training program for South African students attracts many international pre-graduate students doing electives (ranging from 4 to 16 weeks) within our department. For further information contact Dr AJ Viljoen or to apply, contact the international office.​
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Contact D​​​etails​

  • Secretary:
    Ms Imaan Abrahams

    +27 21 938 5732
    +27 21 938 5731
    Email
  • Divisional Secretary for Clinical Services:
    Ms D Smith

    +27 21 938 4944
    +27 21 938 5731
    Email
  • Postal address:
    Stellenbosch University
    Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
    Division of General Internal Medicine
    PO Box 241
    Cape Town
    8000
    South Africa​