Peter Raubenheimer

Biography

The Division provides the platform for bedside teaching in Medicine. All consultants in the Division are active teachers and examiners at undergraduate and postgraduate level for the University and many are also examine externally and at College exams. All UCT undergraduate students will spend time on the wards and all registrars training in Internal Medicine will spend > 50% of their training time in acute medicine as the “medical registrar on intake” rotating through all the hospitals. (For more details of the registrar training programme please see under “teaching” in the Department website). The Division has also piloted a scheme of additional training for general specialists post registrar training,

Research Interest

Typical areas of research relate to clinical audit of processes, outcomes, and care pathways in acute care and palliative care. Individuals in the Division are also active in research in their own interest areas outside of general medicine. The bed platform provides for the recruitment of many patients to “organ –specific” trials of members of the Department.