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Ultimate Medical Academy (UMA) is a nonprofit career education school that grants associate degrees and diplomas in allied health professions.. UMA also has a continuing medical education (CME) division that provides training to more than 50,000 physicians, nurses and other medical professionals annually.
United States Military Academy – West Point, New York; United States Naval Academy – Annapolis, Maryland; United States Air Force Academy – Colorado Springs, Colorado; United States Coast Guard Academy – New London, Connecticut; United States Merchant Marine Academy – Kings Point, New York
The school underwent various name changes and restructuring over the years; incorporating the diverse medical functional areas of the Army Medical Department (AMEDD) along the way. One significant change was on 10 December 1972, when the Secretary of the Army, Robert F. Froehlke re-designated the school to the Academy of Health Sciences.
An elite corps of USAF Firefighters, Airborne Rescuemen/Firefighters, were part of these rescue operations. [14] [15] Pararescue personnel were part of these packages to provide medical assistance for injured aircrew as well as the ability to patrol for missing aircrew that might have been unconscious or dead.
The United States Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) consists of the five distinct medical corps of the Air Force and enlisted medical technicians. The AFMS was created in 1949 after the newly independent Air Force's first Surgeon General , Maj. General Malcolm C. Grow (1887–1960), convinced the United States Army and President Harry S. Truman ...
The Medical Corps (MC) of the U.S. Army is a staff corps (non-combat specialty branch) of the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD) consisting of commissioned medical officers – physicians with either an M.D. or a D.O. degree, at least one year of post-graduate clinical training, and a state medical license.
In 1938, the SS formed its own Medical Academy in Berlin to train medical personnel and physicians who would serve with the SS-VT, the forerunner of the Waffen-SS. [7] Doctors serving with the Waffen-SS were highly trained both in medical skills and combat tactics with many such doctors receiving high combat awards.
The Imperial Military Medical Academy in 1914 (as photographed by Karl Bulla). The S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy (Russian: Военно-медицинская академия имени С. М. Кирова, romanized: Voyenno-meditsinskaya akademiya imeni S. M. Kirova) is a higher education institution of military medicine in Saint Petersburg and the Russian Federation.