Medical Corps
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A medical corps is generally a military branch or officer corps responsible for medical care for serving military personnel. Such officers are typically military physicians. The following organizations are examples:
In the British Armed Forces and Commonwealth of Nations:
In the United States military:
In the Israel Defense Forces:
In the Myanmar Armed Forces:
In the British Armed Forces and Commonwealth of Nations:
- Royal Army Medical CorpsRoyal Army Medical CorpsThe Royal Army Medical Corps is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace...
, a specialist corps of the Army Medical Services that provides medical care to British Army personnel - Royal Australian Army Medical CorpsRoyal Australian Army Medical CorpsThe Royal Australian Army Medical Corps is the branch of the Australian Army responsible for providing medical care to Army personnel. The AAMC was formed in 1902 and has participated in every Australian Army operation...
, the branch of the Australian Army responsible for providing medical care to Army personnel - Royal New Zealand Army Medical CorpsRoyal New Zealand Army Medical CorpsThe Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps is a corps of the New Zealand Army, the land branch of the New Zealand Defence Force. The Medical Corps provides for the medical needs of soldiers, such as diagnosing and treating diseases and injuries...
, a corps of the New Zealand Army that is responsible for medical care to Army personnel - Sri Lanka Army Medical CorpsSri Lanka Army Medical CorpsThe Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps is a specialist corps in the Sri Lanka Army which provides medical services to all army personnel and their families in war and in peace. It is made up of 4 regular units and one volunteer unit. Headquartered in Colombo, formally at army headquarters...
, a corps of the Sri Lanka Army that is responsible for medical care to Army personnel
In the United States military:
- Medical Corps (United States Army)Medical Corps (United States Army)The Medical Corps of the U.S. Army is a staff corps of the U.S. Army Medical Department consisting of commissioned medical officers – physicians with either an MD or a DO degree, at least one year of post-graduate clinical training, and a state medical license.The MC traces its earliest origins...
, a corps that consists of all physicians of the U.S. Army Medical Department - Medical Corps (United States Navy), a staff corps of the United States Navy consisting of doctors in a variety of specialties
- United States Air Force Medical Service, a corps that consists of all physicians of the U.S. Air Force Medical Service
In the Israel Defense Forces:
- Medical Corps (Israel)
In the Myanmar Armed Forces:
- Myanmar Army Medical CorpsMyanmar Army Medical CorpsThe Myanmar Army Medical Corps is a specialist corps in the Myanmar Army which provides medical services to all Myanmar Army personnel and their families in war and in peace...
See also
- Medical Reserve CorpsMedical Reserve CorpsThe Medical Reserve Corps is a network in the U.S. of community-based units initiated and established by local organizations to meet the public health needs of their communities. It is sponsored by the Office of the Surgeon General of the United States...
, a civilian program in the United States - International Medical CorpsInternational Medical CorpsInternational Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs...
(IMC), a global humanitarian nonprofit organization - Medical Cadet CorpsMedical Cadet CorpsThe Missionary Cadet Corps is an organization based on the beliefs and doctrines of the Seventh-day Adventist Church . At first they were intended to train people for the armed forces in the medical branch, but since the 1970s it has been working for the community by helping in disasters and...
, a Seventh Day Adventist organization