Junior Assistant 2028

Your Tasks and Prospects

For completing the Practical Year at HOCH Health Eastern Switzerland, we offer you junior assistant positions in the specialist areas listed below. Some of our clinics also offer internships before the Practical Year in the form of clinical traineeships:

Specialist AreaAvailable PeriodDepartment of Internal Medicine
(Do not offer clinical traineeships)Applications for the Department of Internal Medicine St. Gallen are accepted via the following link .Clinic for Surgery
If explicitly mentioned in the cover letter during registration and required by the home university, a rotation of 1-2 weeks in the Clinic for Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology of the Musculoskeletal System is possible. Rotation requests submitted later cannot be considered for organisational reasons.

April to May
October (1 month)

Clinic for Orthopaedics and Traumatology
(Do not offer clinical traineeships)

occupied

Clinic for Thoracic Surgery

December

Clinic for Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology
(Do not offer clinical traineeships)November to December
(Minimum duration: two months)
(Start only possible on the first of the month)Clinic for Neurology

Mid-April to December
(Minimum duration: two months)

Clinic for Neurosurgery
Specialty: Cranial

occupied
(Start only possible on the first of the month)

Clinic for Neurosurgery
Specialty: Spinal

occupied
(Start only possible on the first of the month)

Clinic for Radio-OncologyJanuary to December
(Applications will be accepted no earlier than the beginning of 2027)
Clinic for Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
(Do not offer clinical traineeships)

November to December

Clinic for Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery
(Do not offer clinical traineeships)

occupied
(Start only on the first of the month and only for whole months possible)

Clinic for Urology
(Do not offer clinical traineeships)

January to December
(Minimum duration: two months)
(Planning in this specialist area begins 12 months before the start of employment)

Clinic for Anaesthesiology, Emergency and Pain Medicine
(Do not offer clinical traineeships)

occupied
(Employment duration: two months)
(Start only possible on the first of the month)

ENT ClinicMay to July
October to DecemberEye Clinic

May (1 month)
August (1 month / no clinical traineeships)
November

Clinic for Gynaecology and Obstetrics

May (1 month)
December

Emergency Centre
(Do not offer clinical traineeships)occupied
(Minimum duration: two months)Institute of Pathology

January to December

Institute of Forensic Medicine
(Do not offer clinical traineeships)July (1 month)
November (1 month)Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetology, Osteology and Metabolic DiseasesPeriods will be announced at the end of 2026
(Planning in this specialist area begins 12 months before the start of employment)
(Employment duration: one month)

Your Application

• Learn more about this exciting internship on our website or from Elina Boos, HR Education Specialist, phone +41 71 494 27 36
• Take your chance and complete your junior assistantship or clinical traineeship at HOCH Health Eastern Switzerland