Experience of the Chief Medical Officer.

[George VI]

One thing I know for certain and from experience, a chief medical officer who takes every patient for his own will be a hated chief medical officer. Therefor I made a character from a Pharmacy background, with limited knowledge in surgery, virology and genetics; to the point he requires a learned assistant to practice them. Yet, recently in a random thought I asked myself, "What kind of backgrounds would a chief medical officer be allowed to come from?"

I thought on it, thinking that the chief medical officer is to be the public figure of the medical bay, the one who takes responsibility for what happens and what does not, the one who commands his colleagues to do the correct thing at the correct time. This made me think, would nurses be able to be chief medical officers? Some nurses go to school as long as doctors do; I'm honestly surprised they don't have a title like other doctors.

So, here's a question. Are nurses eligible to become a chief medical officer?

And one more. Are auxiliary employees ( people employed through another company, ex. Zeng-Hu ) able to become heads or possibly be employed as a head through their home company?

[Jamini]

One thing I know for certain and from experience, a chief medical officer who takes every patient for his own will be a hated chief medical officer. Therefor I made a character from a Pharmacy background, with limited knowledge in surgery, virology and genetics; to the point he requires a learned assistant to practice them. Yet, recently in a random thought I asked myself, "What kind of backgrounds would a chief medical officer be allowed to come from?"

I thought on it, thinking that the chief medical officer is to be the public figure of the medical bay, the one who takes responsibility for what happens and what does not, the one who commands his colleagues to do the correct thing at the correct time. This made me think, would nurses be able to be chief medical officers? Some nurses go to school as long as doctors do; I'm honestly surprised they don't have a title like other doctors.

So, here's a question. Are nurses eligible to become a chief medical officer?

And one more. Are auxiliary employees ( people employed through another company, ex. Zeng-Hu ) able to become heads or possibly be employed as a head through their home company?

 

There are two types of Nurses.

Type 1 are graduate Nurses who are currently working on a MD. Generally these nurses have an Associates Degree of Nursing or a Bachlor's of Science in Nursing (ADN, BSN)

Type 2 are career nurses, which can have a pHD (These are DNP, or Doctors of Nursing Practice)

So... yes. A nurse could be a CMO. Technically they would be a doctor however.

[Guest]

A CMO must know medicine, which is the basic and advances treatments using chemicals as well as doing autopsies, this is your Medical Doctorate and is a requirement for CMOs.

They should then have knowledge of at least two of the other fields of Medical. (Virology, Surgery, Chemistry, Psychology and Cloning).

My CMO, Vivian Rival , is a virology major, who also has an MD. She is also trained in fracture repair and appendectomies. Lastly she has the necessary training to operate the cloning equipment.

My other, now retired CMO, Mortimer Lore was a psychology major, and had a PsyD and an MD, as well as being able to concoct advanced chemicals and clone. He's a 37 year old Skrellian.