PD Dr med Walter Schweizer

Group practice Durach, Durachweg 22, 8200 Schaffhausen with surgical activity at the Hirslanden Private Hospital Belair

Privatdozent (PD Dr med.) at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich (Visceral Surgery, Emergency Surgery, Transplantation)

Head of Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Schaffhausen, member of the hospital management

Privatdozent (PD Dr med.), Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern (Visceral Surgery, Emergency Surgery, Transplantation)

Visiting Professor Visceral Surgery, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat Oman

Visiting senior consultant in traumatology, Department of Orthopaedics, Inselspital, Bern (Prof. R. Ganz)

Lecturer at the medical faculty of the University of Bern (visceral surgery, emergency surgery, transplantation)

Member of the clinic management (according to "Insel 90")

6 months: Visiting senior consultant, Department of Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Inselspital, Bern (Prof. P. Stirnemann, Prof. U. Althaus)

as senior consultant I

6 months: Surgical Polyclinic of the University, Cantonal Hospital Basel (Dr P. Linder)
3 months: University Department of General Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Basel (Prof. F. Harder)

Senior physician, University Clinic for Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Inselspital, Bern (VCHK)
Alternating activities: Department, emergency ward, outpatient clinic, operating theatre, intensive care unit, recovery room H-109)
Clinical and laboratory research

6 months: University Department of Urology, Cantonal Hospital Basel (Prof. G. Rutishauser)
6 months: University Department of General Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Basel (Prof. F. Harder)

4 months: General Surgical University Clinic, Cantonal Hospital Basel (Prof. F. Harder)
6 months: Private ward of the General Surgery University Clinic, Basel Cantonal Hospital (Prof. F. Harder)

25 months: Development aid assignment at St Francis Hospital, Ifakara, Tanzania; including 10 months as deputy head physician at the hospital (Dr W. Moll).
Scientific co-operation with the Swiss Tropical Institute. Tropical Institute.

3 months: Central Surgical Emergency Ward, University Department of Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Basel (Prof. M. Allgöwer, Prof. K. Pfeiffer).
3 months: Tropical medicine course at the Swiss. Tropical Institute, Basel, with final diploma
6 months: University Clinic for Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Basel (Prof. E. Grädel)

6 months: Surgical Intensive Care Unit of the University Clinic, Cantonal Hospital Basel (Prof. M. Allgöwer, PD Dr G. Wolff)
6 months: University Clinic for Orthopaedics, Felix Platter Hospital, Basel (Prof. E. Morscher)

6 months: General Surgery University Clinic, Cantonal Hospital Basel (Prof. M. Allgöwer)
3 months: Department of Anaesthesia of the University, Cantonal Hospital Basel (PD Dr H. Gerber)
3 months: Central Surgical Emergency Ward, University Department of Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Basel (Prof. M. Allgöwer, Prof. K. Pfeiffer)

Habilitation (Privatdozent) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS)

Habilitation (Privatdozent) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern

Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS)

Specialist FMH for surgery

Diploma in tropical medicine

Doctorate (Dr med.)