About Placemint

Placemint is an independent, free directory of South Africa’s public healthcare facilities and medical training pathways. Our goal is to be the clearest, most reliable place to research where to work, train and specialise in South African medicine.

Who Placemint is for

We build for medical students, interns, community-service doctors, and anyone researching South Africa’s public hospitals and clinics — whether you are choosing where to do your internship or community service, exploring a postgraduate diploma or fellowship, or simply trying to find a facility’s location and contact details.

What you’ll find

• A searchable directory and interactive map of public healthcare facilities across all nine provinces.
• Facility profiles with category, location, contact details and the training each facility is accredited for.
• Guides to medical training pathways — internship, community service, diplomas, fellowships and sub-specialties.
• Profiles of South Africa’s medical schools and the colleges that award postgraduate qualifications.

Our commitment to accurate information

Health and career information matters, so we only publish information we can stand behind. We compile data from publicly available, authoritative sources and clearly prefer to show “not available” over a guess. We do not invent statistics or ratings. You can read more about where our data comes from on our methodology page.

Help us improve

Placemint is continually being improved and expanded. If you spot an error or have information that would help other doctors, please get in touch. Corrections from the community keep this resource trustworthy.