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Names used for "doctor substitutes" |
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| Stages |
Ghana |
Malawi |
Tanzania |
Kenya |
Mozambique |
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| Basic level |
Registered nurse (nursing is required for medical assistants in Ghana) |
Medical assistant |
Clinical officer (medical assistants are a step lower than clinical officers) |
Clinical officer |
Basic health "agent" (general medicine, pharmacy, dental) |
| Postbasic level |
Medical assistant |
Clinical officer |
Assistant medical officer |
Clinical officer (partly specialized) e.g. skin, ENT, anesthesia, orthopedics, etc. |
Medium-level technicians (general medicine, pharmacy, dental, preventive medicine) |
| Specialized |
n/a |
Clinical officer: orthopedic, clinical medicine, dental, etc. |
Assistant medical officer-specialist orthopedic, radiology, surgery, dermatology, anesthesia, etc. |
Medical & surgical technicians (specialists) |
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Dovlo Human Resources for Health 2004 2:7 doi:10.1186/1478-4491-2-7 |
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