Healthcare role guides
Hospital job titles are opaque, inconsistent between facilities, and rarely explained to the people applying for them. These are plain-English guides to the roles Meera Consulting recruits for most often — what each one actually involves, what qualifies you for it, what it pays, and where it leads.
- Clinical
Duty Medical Officer(DMO)
A DMO — Duty Medical Officer — is the qualified doctor on shift who is physically present in the hospital and clinically responsible for patients…
Read the guide - Hospital Administration
Manager on Duty(MOD)
An MOD — Manager on Duty — is the senior administrator in charge of a hospital's operations during a shift. Not a doctor: the MOD runs the building,…
Read the guide - Health Information
Medical Records Officer(MRD)
A Medical Records Officer runs the MRD — the Medical Records Department — which owns every patient record a hospital holds: how it is coded, stored,…
Read the guide - Hospital Administration
Hospital Administration
Hospital administration is the non-clinical management of a healthcare facility — operations, quality, staffing, patient experience, compliance and…
Read the guide - Allied Health
Anesthesia Technician
An anesthesia technician prepares, maintains and troubleshoots the equipment and drugs an anaesthesiologist depends on during surgery — and assists…
Read the guide - Allied Health
Operation Theatre (OT) Technician
An OT technician — operation theatre technician — prepares the theatre, owns the sterile field and manages the instruments the surgical team needs,…
Read the guide - Allied Health
Physiotherapist
A physiotherapist assesses and treats problems of movement and function — after surgery, injury or stroke, and in chronic disease — using exercise,…
Read the guide - Revenue Cycle
Medical Billing Executive
A medical billing executive turns treatment into a bill that actually gets paid — pricing every service a patient received, assembling the insurance…
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