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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.
The Army Medical School was housed in the Army Medical Museum and Library building in Washington, DC, between 1893 and 1910. World War I brought a realization of the need to provide more than the "finishing school" approach of the AMS to military medical education and indoctrination and in 1920, the Medical Department first established hospital ...
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) is a health science university and professional school of the U.S. federal government.The primary mission of the school is to prepare graduates for service to the U.S. at home and abroad as uniformed health professionals, scientists and leaders; by conducting cutting-edge, military-relevant research; by leading the Military Health ...
Students at these academies are organized as cadets, and graduate with appropriate licenses from the U.S. Coast Guard and/or the U.S. Merchant Marine.While not immediately offered a commission as an officer within a service, cadets do have the opportunity to participate in commissioning programs like the Strategic Sealift Officer Program (Navy) and Maritime Academy Graduate (Coast Guard).
United States Army Medical Corps officers (2 C, 365 P) Pages in category "American military doctors" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
The Army Medical Department of the U.S. Army (AMEDD), formerly known as the Army Medical Service (AMS), encompasses the Army's six medical Special Branches (or "Corps"). It was established as the "Army Hospital" in July 1775 to coordinate the medical care required by the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War .
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.
For example, an officer may be sent to various staff courses: as a captain they may be sent to a single service command and staff school to prepare for company command and equivalent staff posts; as a major to a single or joint service college to prepare for battalion command and equivalent staff posts; and as a colonel or brigadier to a higher ...