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Bsc.clinical officers can do intensive surgeries as the Mbchb

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someone feels that a stub is better than a more detailed article! what do you all feel. meanwhile i will revert to the latest version. (hope thats not vandalism!).

Ongoing edit war

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This ongoing edit war has been posted on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring. Usrnme h8er (talk · contribs) 19:20, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Clinical Officers as mid-level providers

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See discussion at User talk:Ronns. --Spyder212 (talk) 21:18, 19 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal

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This article should be merged into Physician assistant, since they are both terms for the same position. 59.100.163.90 (talk) 03:56, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support merge proposal; while clinical officer started as an article focussed on the African profession, it has expanded in scope now to represent the roles as synonymous with physician assistant. The latter term now seems more prevalent in the English-speaking world, and that therefore seems to be the better target. Klbrain (talk) 08:41, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Klbrain, do we have sources for that terminology shift? WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:41, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good question. The WHO used the term Paramedical practitioners in their 2019 classification to describe roles such as Clinical officers. So, if we use an official nomenclature, then Paramedical practitioner might be a better title. However, ngram suggest that Physician assistant is more widely used than Clinical officer, as has been for some time, even though the WHO classification doesn't mention the term. In a review of the role of clinical associates in South Africa, Ngcobo and colleagues (2024) use the following as search terms for the same or similar roles:
  • “clinical associates” OR
  • “non-physician clinician” OR “non-physician clinicians” OR
  • “non-physician practitioner” OR “non-physician practitioners” OR
  • “mid-level provider” OR “mid-level providers” OR “mid-level health provider” OR “mid-level health providers” OR “mid-level healthcare provider” OR “mid-level healthcare providers” OR “mid-level health practitioner” OR “mid-level health practitioners” OR “mid-level healthcare practitioner” OR “mid-level healthcare practitioners” OR “mid-level practitioner” OR “mid-level practitioners” OR “mid-level health worker” OR “mid-level health workers” OR “mid-level healthcare worker” OR “mid-level healthcare workers” OR
  • “clinical officer” OR “clinical officers”
  • “substitute health worker” OR “substitute health workers” OR
  • “advanced practice provider” OR “advanced practice providers” OR
  • “assistant practice clinician” OR “assistant practice clinicians”OR
  • “physician assistant” OR “physician assistants”
This highlights the wide range of country or region-specific terms used to describe the same or similar professions. I'm from a country that uses physician associate, yet another term the for the Paramedical practitioner (WHO ISCO code 2240). Unless, of course, this is such an unholy mess that it is best dealt with by having an overarching article, perhaps called Paramedical practitioner), to discuss the set of these roles. A good starting point is the list in Clinical officer#Overview. Klbrain (talk) 08:56, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
We have a generic article at Mid-level practitioner. Several of the titles above (I didn't realize there were so many variations; thank you for all the work that went into creating that) are meant to encompass Nurse practitioner, related to which there is a quasi-cultural distinction between nursing and medicine. The MLP article includes PAs, COs, NPs, and anything like them. Is the goal here to include everyone who isn't an NP? WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:03, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for pointing out the Mid-level practitioner article. Perhaps we should not merge as proposed here, and instead work on improving the Mid-level practitioner article.

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