OPES Academy
Building the digital health workforce of tomorrow
OPES Academy is the training and certification programme designed to build digital health competencies across African health professionals — from day-to-day system use to advanced health data management.
Certification tracks
Six tracks, one goal: digital excellence
Digital Clinician
OPES Certified Clinical User
Doctors, nurses, midwives
Mastery of electronic patient records, digital prescriptions, triage, and consultation workflows in OPES EMR.
EMR & patient records
Prescriptions & orders
Triage & admissions
Consultation management
Lab Technician
OPES Certified Lab Technician
Biologists, technicians, lab staff
Managing test requests, validating results, quality control, and EMR integration via OPES Lab.
Request management
Result validation
Quality control
EMR integration
Pharmacy Manager
OPES Certified Pharmacy Manager
Pharmacists, dispensers, store managers
Pharmaceutical stock management, dispensing, expiry alerts, and drug interaction management in PHARMIS.
Stock management
Dispensing
Drug interactions
Pharmacy reports
Health Data Administrator
OPES Certified Health Data Administrator
IT officers, data managers, CIOs
System administration, user management, backups, HMIS reporting, and DHIS2 exports for health partners.
System administration
HMIS reporting
DHIS2 export
User management
Clinical Intelligence Analyst
OPES Certified Clinical Intelligence Analyst
Epidemiologists, public health officers, researchers
Advanced use of analytics dashboards, epidemiological surveillance, and interpretation of clinical performance indicators.
Advanced dashboards
Epidemiological indicators
Performance reporting
AI decision support
OPES System Engineer
OPES Certified System Engineer
IT engineers, integrators, CIOs
Deployment, advanced configuration, HL7 FHIR integrations, open API administration, and OPES infrastructure maintenance.
Deployment & infrastructure
FHIR integrations
API administration
Security & hardening
How it works
Your certification journey
01
Register
Create your OPES practitioner account and choose your certification track.
02
Take courses
Access bilingual e-learning modules at your own pace from any device.
03
Validate knowledge
Practical assessments and quizzes at the end of each module to measure progress.
04
Get certified
Downloadable OPES digital certificate with a unique verification code.
Institutional training
Train your entire facility at once
OPES Academy offers on-site training programmes for facilities that want to train all staff at once — with a certified OPES trainer deployed on-site, materials adapted to your system configuration, and certification tracking via the admin dashboard.
Start your certification journey
Sign up for free and access the first modules of your track today.