Kenya: Family Medicine (Tenwek)
- KE
- Full-time
- Published: 2020-09-08 00:00:00Z
Opportunities
Family Medicine at Tenwek Hospital is about service and teaching. Clinically, there are many roles for FM doctors. The FM doctor serves in outpatient and inpatient areas, including emergency services as the attending/ consultant level physician, which involves both clinical medicine and teaching. We also have an active internship and FM residency where we strive to teach whole person care by modeling and reinforcing a practice of assessing and addressing both the physical and spiritual needs of each patient.
Ministry Description
Tenwek Hospital is a ministry of World Gospel Mission and Africa Gospel Church. The hospital, which started as a single-nurse dispensary in 1937, is now a 300-bed hospital and training center. In addition to being the area’s primary hospital, Tenwek serves as a referral hospital that receives patients from throughout the country. Tenwek is also a growing teaching hospital. Training programs include family practice, surgical residency, medical and clinical internships and student rotations, hospital chaplaincy, and nursing.
Quick Facts
- Tenwek Hospital began as a small clinic in the 1930s and is now one of the largest Protestant mission hospitals in Kenya. It is located 140 miles west of Nairobi in the fertile highlands of the Bomet district.
- Working under the motto “We treat, Jesus heals,” Tenwek’s staff treats more than 11,000 inpatients and 80,000 outpatients annually and also performs approximately 3,000 major surgeries and 2,500 deliveries each year.
- In addition to the medical work being done at Tenwek, several thousand people find Christ as Savior each year, and many more are impacted through the hospital’s compassionate ministries and training programs.
