The Division of Internal Medicine (GIM) is the largest division in the Department of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and Tygerberg Hospital.
Our clinical services activities are divided into emergency admissions, in-patient care including high care and out-patient services. There are 164 in-patient beds in the division's medical wards. We are organised into five inpatient firms, an Emergency Admissions team, and an Adult Medical High Care Unit. The Division also runs a Medical Outpatient Clinic four 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.
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 programme.
