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Community Service & Internship Facility Map
All 436 facilities on the South African community service and internship lists — on a real map, with their towns, priority tier, HPCSA and CMSA training accreditation, and what is actually around them.
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The numbers behind the map
385 community service facilities and 62 internship facilities across 9 provinces, of which 125 hold formal training accreditation.
How rural are the posts?
P1 · Rural
18041%
Deep-rural and remote facilities. The broadest clinical responsibility earliest, with the least infrastructure around you.
P2 · Semi-urban
19745%
District and regional hospitals in established towns — a working balance between clinical exposure and daily life.
P3 · Urban
5914%
Metro and city hospitals. The fullest range of specialist services, and everything else on the doorstep.
Facilities by province
- Eastern Cape90
- Western Cape75
- KwaZulu-Natal73
- Limpopo41
- Free State38
- Gauteng36
- North West36
- Mpumalanga31
- Northern Cape16
Each bar is split by priority tier — green is rural, orange semi-urban, blue urban.
Hardest disciplines to train in
Accredited at the fewest facilities nationally — plan around these early.
- Cardiology1 · 1 prov
- Nuclear Med2 · 2 provs
- Dermatology3 · 3 provs
- Neurology3 · 3 provs
- Rad Onc3 · 3 provs
- Forensic Med4 · 4 provs
- Neurosurg4 · 3 provs
- Cardio Surg5 · 4 provs
No accredited training site on record: ICU, Visiting/Outreach. The service is still run at many facilities — it simply is not a recognised training post anywhere on this list.
Most widely accredited
Available at the most facilities, so far easier to find near where you want to be.
- ED97 · 9 provs
- OBGYN88 · 9 provs
- Paeds83 · 9 provs
- Anaes53 · 9 provs
- Int Med42 · 9 provs
- Ortho35 · 9 provs
- ENT/Opthalm25 · 9 provs
- Gen Surg20 · 8 provs
Every province in full
| Province | Facilities | Comm serve | Internship | Accredited | P1 | P2 | P3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Cape | 90 | 69 | 3 | 12 | 50 | 29 | 11 |
| Free State | 38 | 34 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 24 | 3 |
| Gauteng | 36 | 36 | 15 | 23 | 0 | 24 | 12 |
| KwaZulu-Natal | 73 | 62 | 9 | 24 | 43 | 26 | 4 |
| Limpopo | 41 | 35 | 8 | 11 | 23 | 15 | 3 |
| Mpumalanga | 31 | 31 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 7 |
| North West | 36 | 35 | 5 | 8 | 19 | 9 | 8 |
| Northern Cape | 16 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 3 |
| Western Cape | 75 | 70 | 11 | 26 | 19 | 48 | 8 |