A clinical officer (CO) is a gazetted officer who is qualified and licensed to practice medicine.
A clinical officer observes, interviews and examines sick and healthy individuals in all specialties to determine and document their health status and applies relevant pathological, radiological, psychiatric and community health techniques, procedures and findings needed to classify diseases and related health problems and to establish a provisional or final diagnosis upon which to prescribe, initiate, carry out or terminate treatment or therapy based on their specialized knowledge, skills and experience in clinical pharmacology, use of clinical guidelines, best practices and disease patterns as well as individual patient and community characteristics while being actively pharmacovigilant to prevent, identify, minimize and manage drug reactions, drug errors, side effects and poisoning, over diagnosis, over screening, over treatment and futile care.
Below are the list of Clinical Officers School in Uganda
Makerere University Mbale School of Clinical Officers
Mildmay Uganda Institute of Health Sciences School of Clinical Officers
Luwero Cchool of Clinical Officers
Ophthalmic Clinical Officers’ Training School
Jerusalem Institute Lira School of Clinical Officers
Fort Portal School of Clinical Officers
Gulu School of Clinical Officers
Kyabazinga School of Clinical Officers
What are the duties of a clinical officer?
A clinical officer performs general and specialized medical duties such as diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury, ordering and interpreting medical tests, performing routine medical and surgical procedures, referring patients to other practitioners and managing health departments, institutions, projects
Can a clinical officer be a doctor?
Clinical officers ordinarily study clinical medicine while the doctors have Bachelor’s degrees in medicine and surgery. Clinical officers are trained to perform general medical duties such as diagnosis and treatment of general diseases and injuries.
What does a clinical officer do?
A clinical officer performs general and specialized medical duties such as diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury, ordering and interpreting medical tests, performing routine medical and surgical procedures, referring patients to other practitioners and managing health departments, institutions, projects