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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.
The Army Nurse Corps originated in 1901, the Dental Corps began in 1911, the Veterinary Corps in 1916, the Medical Service Corps emerged in 1917 (during WW I the Sanitary Corps was created as a temporary organization to relieve U.S. Army physicians from a variety of duties), [3] and the Army Medical Specialist Corps came into existence in 1947.
Deydre S. Teyhen is a U.S. Army brigadier general and the 20th Chief of the Army Medical Specialist Corps. [1] Teyhen also serves as Commanding General, Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC), and the Deputy Market Director, San Antonio Market, Defense Health Agency.
The U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence (MEDCoE) is located at Fort Sam Houston, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. MEDCoE comprises the 32d Medical Brigade, the U.S. Army Medical Professional Training Brigade (MPTB), and the AMEDD Noncommissioned Officers Academy (NCOA). It serves the U.S. Army in educating and training all of its medical ...
The 232d Medical Battalion is a medical battalion in the United States Army [1] formed in 1944. [citation needed] The unit is a part of the 32d Medical Brigade. [1]The 232nd Medical Battalion, the largest of its kind within the 32nd Medical Brigade, operates under the U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence.
The United States Army Medical Department (AMEDD), formerly the Army Medical Service (AMS), is the primary healthcare organization of the United States Army and is led by the Surgeon General of the United States Army (TSG), a three-star lieutenant general, who (by policy) also serves as the Commanding General, United States Army Medical Command ...
This category contains medical doctors who have served as United States Army Medical Corps officers, including those serving in the U.S. Army Medical Department prior to 1908 when Congress made the Corps an official staff officer body.
Disadvantages of the increased complexity of duties in the Army, the reluctance of military commanders losing picked civilian aides and specialists, and the belated organisation of the Corps led to the disbandment of the ASC and recruits being enlisted into the Army Service Forces instead. [12] The ASC was disbanded on 1 November 1942.