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Medical Officers and Medical Doctors
Medical Officers and Medical Doctors provide the consultation for
outpatient services at the hospital as wel] as the inpatiegt care of the
medical
and
surgical
patients.
The
recommended miniMum for
hospita] at Majuro and Ebeye is one general surgeon wit
general practitioners.
permits
the minimum
As soon as the work load demandg
recommendation
would provide one
each
one or more
and staffing
surgeon,
one
internist, one pediatrician, one obstetrician/gynecologigt and one or
more general practitioners.
doctor
to
do
itinerate
Such a level of staffing would allow one
service
for
consultation
continuing
a
education of the medical assistants on a scheduled visifing basis to
each atoll.
Complicated medical and surgical cases r@quiring more
skilled care or highly specialized services would be referged to Hawaii,
Guam or mainland U.S.A. for tertiary medical care.
Sufh situations
would be few and infrequent.
The supervision of medical officers and medical doctdrs is done by
the medical director in charge of hospital services and
scheduled
peer-review
continuing education
conferences.
jis provided
A
in
degree
of
py formalized
suffervision
and
the form of consglitations
and
referrals for tertiary care when required.
The training of medical officers is recommended to befat the School
of Medicine of the University of the South Pacific
ing
Suva, Fiji.
Several medical officers in the Marshalls have been trained at this
school
but currently there are no candidates
in
trai ing.
strongly recommended that selected candidates be sought a
soon
as
possible.
completion
of
examinations.
high
The
current
school
and
program
passing
has
the
It
is
enrolled as
entry requirements of
University
Entrance
The program is five years, with the firgt year being
basic science studies on the main campus of the University
of the South
Pacific and the remaining four years at the School of Medifine.
final four years, the first is preclinical basic science
Of the
followed by
three years of clinical study and experience in medical/surgical areas.
Study is currently being undertaken to expand the trainifig program to
seven years which would result in a fully qualified medicafl
WG
the M.D. degree.
doctor with