In Uganda and Tanzania, it is offered at Kampala International University.
However, in Zambia, their designation was changed from clinical officers to medical licentiates.
In Tanzania, their designation was changed from clinical officers/assistant medical officers to Medical Officers and are given the title of a doctor to their name and allowed to practice and specialize as doctors in that country and even abroad.
It takes four and half years to train MBBS in India and four years in USA, UK, Cuba and other countries for accelerated programs for high school leavers and those who have a prior Bachelor of Science degrees and diplomas and degrees in health related fields.
Other graduates undertake the masters of medicine (Radiology, Internal medicine) like in the case of Tanzania and others pursue Master of science degrees in overseas countries.