Garth Cornellissen

Patient care

Patient health education

Clinical education (Training given on management of infectious diseases such as HIV,TB and DR TB Family planning interventions such as vasectomies)

Clinical quality improvement (QI projects in rational requests on investigations and Tuberculosis)

Chronic disease management (e-scripting and SPV scripts, rational requesting of investigations and rational prescribing)

Patient relations

Surgical skills (Both major skills such as hernia repairs,amputations,hydrocoelectomies,excisions of lumps biopsies,debridements,haemrrhoidectomies,sigmoidoscopies, vasectomies and circumcisions)

Mental health skills (Managing acute mental health such as aggressive patients, inpatient and outpatient follow up of mental health patients)

Medicolegal risk identification and mitigation

Anaesthetic skills (Able to administer General and spinal anaesthesia,paediatric anaesthesia such as dental lists, emergency anaesthesia and advanced airway management, conscious sedation and local anaesthetic techniques and blocks)

Orthopaedics (Able to reduce and manipulate fractures and dislocations, management of fractures requiring conservative management and appropriate referral for conditions requiring surgical intervention, corticosteroid injections of joints)

Paediatrics (Able to manage paediatric and neonatal resuscitation, surfactant administration, NCPAP and intubation Experience working in both paediatric and neonatal High care units Able to manage paediatric and neonatal conditions in ward and on outpatient basis)

Public health

Continuous improvement

Emergency medicine (Competent in resuscitation both adult and paediatric, competent in resuscitation algoritms,emergency drugs and therapy requiring defibrillator Emergency procedures like needle decompressions and auto-transfusions and management of trauma conditions)

Teamwork and collaboration

Medical clinical procedures (LP, aspiration of fluids under ultrasound guidance, ICD placement, FNAs)

Problem-solving

Note-keeping

Obstetrics and gynaecology (Able to do caesarian sections, manage obstetric and gynaecological emergencies such as ectopics,miscarriages and provide provide family planning services, insertion of implanons,IUD's and sterilizations)

Drivers Licence-code B