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 departments listed below. Some of our clinics also offer internships before the Practical Year in the form of clinical traineeships:

Departmentavailable 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 of SurgeryIf explicitly mentioned in the cover letter at registration and required by the home university, a rotation of 1-2 weeks in the Clinic of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology of the Musculoskeletal System is possible. Rotation requests submitted later cannot be considered for organisational reasons.

Periods will be announced at the end of 2026 (Planning in this department begins 12 months before the start of employment)

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

Mid-October to December

Clinic of Thoracic Surgery

Mid-September to December

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

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

Clinic of NeurosurgeryField: Cranial

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

Clinic of NeurosurgeryField: Spinal

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

Clinic of Radio-OncologyJanuary to December(Applications accepted earliest at the beginning of 2027)Clinic of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine(Do not offer clinical traineeships)

January (1 month)June to December(Start only possible on the first of the month)

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

January to December(Start only possible on the first of the month and only for whole months)

Clinic of Urology(Do not offer clinical traineeships)

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

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

occupied(Duration of employment: two months)(Start only possible on the first of the month)

ENT ClinicMay to DecemberEye Clinic

February (1 month)May (1 month) August (1 month)October to December

Clinic of Gynaecology and Obstetrics

January to FebruaryMay to JuneSeptember to 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)June to DecemberClinic of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Osteology and Metabolic DiseasesPeriods will be announced at the end of 2026(Planning in this department begins 12 months before the start of employment) (Duration of employment: 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