In 2002, the University, in partnership with the Donald Gordon Foundation, responded to this crisis by acquiring the Kenridge Hospital and a number of adjacent buildings in Parktown, Johannesburg. We renovated, rebuilt and equipped what became the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, the only Private Academic Hospital in the country.
All profits generated at the facility are used to fund the training of specialists and sub-specialists. All training programmes are fully integrated and complementary to the existing training programmes within the Wits Faculty of Health Sciences.
The training of specialists started for the first time in 2007 when the first trainees were appointed. Since then, it has grown from three registrars (training to be specialists) and one fellow (specialists training in a subspeciality) to seventeen fellowships and six registrars. A total of 110 specialists and sub-specialists have been funded since 2007, while 654 trainees have received a period of training at the facility as part of the rotational training with the other sites in the Wits Health Sciences Faculty Training Platform.
It also created a site for public sector doctors to do their private work in a controlled and regulated environment and draw doctors from the private sector back into the Academic sector to make a positive contribution to the training of medical specialists and sub-specialists.
These dedicated practitioners are committed to ensuring the future of health care, training and research in South Africa – this reinforces the DGMC’s uniqueness.
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