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Specialist salaried medical officer

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termGlossary Item
Synonymous names:Help on this termSpecialist SMO
METEOR identifier:Help on this term548490
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 25/01/2018
Definition:Help on this term

Specialist medical officers employed by the hospital on a full time or part time salaried basis. This excludes visiting medical officers engaged on an honorary, sessional or fee for service basis.

This category includes specialist salaried medical officers who are engaged in administrative duties regardless of the extent of that engagement (for example, clinical superintendent and medical superintendent).

A specialist is a medical practitioner with a qualification awarded by, or which equates to that awarded by, the relevant specialist professional college in Australia and works in that speciality area.

Relational attributes

Metadata items which use this glossary item:Help on this term
Health staffing categories code N[N]
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 10/08/2018
  • Health, Standard 11/04/2014
Local Hospital Networks/Public hospital establishments NMDS 2020–21
  • Health, Superseded 05/02/2021
Local Hospital Networks/Public hospital establishments NMDS 2021–22
  • Health, Superseded 17/12/2021
Local Hospital Networks/Public hospital establishments NMDS 2022–23
  • Health, Standard 17/12/2021
Local Hospital Networks/Public hospital establishments NMDS 2023–24
  • Health, Recorded 24/06/2024
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