chief medical officer
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A chief medical officer is the senior physician in an organization, responsible for medical policy, clinical standards, and healthcare decisions.
In government, the chief medical officer advises on public health matters: The chief medical officer recommended mask mandates during the outbreak.
In hospitals or corporations, the CMO oversees medical staff and ensures quality of care.
- CMOSenior executive title abbreviation
- executiveSenior organizational leader
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
- hospital roundsPhysicians' systematic patient visits
- scrubbing inSurgical hand sterilization ritual
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- Healthcare Administrationpatient care, patient records, billing, appointments, referrals
- Medical LeadersCMO, nursing director, department head, department chair, attending physician
- medical officersCMO, health commissioner, coroner, field surgeon, flight surgeon
- military medicscorpsman, navy corpsman, military surgeon, military doctor, combat surgeon
- science leaderssenior scientist, research director, lab director, science advisor
- naval medicinecorpsman, naval hospital, naval doctors, nurse corps, sickbay
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Hospital-employed bedside caregiver
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Senior doctor supervising care
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