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• A medical specialty, specifically a branch of occupational medicine attending to the medical risks and needs (both preventive and interventional) of soldiers, sailors and other service members. This disparate arena has historically involved the prevention and treatment of infectious disease
  Infectious disease
  
  An infectious disease is a clinically evident disease resulting from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, Mycosis, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions....
  s (especially tropical disease
  Tropical disease
  
  Tropical diseases are Infectious diseases that are prevalent in or unique to tropics and subtropics regions. These diseases are less prevalent in temperate climates, due in part to the occurrence of a cold season, which controls the insect population by forcing hibernation during the cold season....
  s), and, in the 20th Century, the ergonomics and health effects of operating military-specific machines and equipment such as submarines, tanks, helicopters and airplanes. Undersea
  Diving medicine
  
  Diving medicine, also called undersea medicine, is the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of conditions caused by humans entering the undersea environment....
   and aviation medicine
  Aviation medicine
  
  Aviation medicine, also called flight medicine or aerospace medicine, is a branch of preventive medicine or occupational medicine in which the patients/subjects are pilots and aircrews....
   can be understood as subspecialties of military medicine, or in any case originated as such. (The American Board of Medical Specialties
  American Board of Medical Specialties
  
  The American Board of Medical Specialties is a Non-profit organization physician-led umbrella organization for 24 of the 26 approved medical specialty boards in the United States....
   does not, however, certify or recognize a specialty or subspecialty of “military medicine”.)

• The planning and practice of the surgical management of mass battlefield casualties and the logistical and administrative considerations of establishing and operating combat support hospitals. This involves military medical hierarchies, especially the organization of structured medical command and administrative systems that interact with and support deployed combat units. (See Battlefield medicine
  Battlefield medicine
  
  Battlefield medicine, also called field surgery and more recently combat casualty care, is the treatment of wounded soldiers in or near an area of combat....
  .)

• The administration and practice of health care for military service members and their dependents in non-deployed (peacetime) settings. This may (as in the United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  ) consist of a medical system paralleling all the medical specialties and sub-specialties that exist in the civilian sector. See also Veterans Health Administration
  Veterans Health Administration
  
  Veterans Health Administration is the component of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs that implements the medical assistance program of the VA through the administration and operation of numerous VA outpatient clinics, hospitals, medical centers and longterm healthcare facilities ....
   for medical services given to US veterans.

• Medical research and development
  Research and development
  
  The phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications [sic]" ...
   specifically bearing upon problems of military medical interest. Historically, this encompasses all of the medical advances emerging from medical research efforts directed at addressing the problems encountered by deployed military forces (e.g., vaccines or drugs for soldiers, medical evacuation systems, drinking water chlorination
  Chlorination
  
  Chlorination is the process of adding the element chlorine to water as a method of water purification to make it fit for human consumption as drinking water....
  , etc) many of which ultimately prove important beyond the purely military considerations that inspired them.

Military medicine by country

British military medicine

• Medical Assistant (Royal Navy)
  Medical Assistant (Royal Navy)
  
  The Medical Assistant is a Royal Navy medical rating. Medical Assistants serve on all types of ship in the surface and submarine fleet, or ashore in a sick bay, hospital, or other establishment....
  
• Royal Army Medical Corps
  Royal Army Medical Corps
  
  The 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....
  
• Medical Support Officer
  Medical Support Officer
  
  The term Medical Support Officer is the name given to Commissioned Officers within the British Army 's Royal Army Medical Corps who are principally responsible for the leadership, command, control and management of the RAMC....
  
• Combat Medical Technician
  Combat Medical Technician
  
  The Combat Medical Technician is a soldier with a specialist military trade within the Royal Army Medical Corps of the British Army and the Royal Air Force....
  
• Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
  Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
  
  Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps is the nursing branch of the British Army and part of the Army Medical Services.In 1902, Queen Alexandra?s Imperial Military Nursing Service was established by Royal Warrant, and was named after Alexandra of Denmark, who became its President....
  

French military medicine

• French Defence Health service
  French Defence Health service
  
  French Defence Health Service is in charge of medical and sanitary support of the Military of France and of all institutions placed under the authority of the French Ministry of Defence....
  

German military medicine

• Central Medical Services
  Central Medical Services
  
  Bundeswehr Joint Medical Service is the English translation of the German Zentraler Sanit?tsdienst . which is the term for the medicine services of the Germany armed forces....
  

Russian military medicine

• Museum of Military Medicine
  Museum of Military Medicine
  
  The Museum of Military Medicine is situated in the center of Saint Petersburg, Russia, in front of Vitebsky Rail Terminal. The Museum was founded in the year of 1942....
  
• Military Medical Business
  Military Medical Business
  
  Military Medical Business was one of the professional medical journals of the Worker's and Peasant's Red Army . The journal was published monthly in Moscow....
  

Serbian military medicine

• Military Medical Academy

Australian military medicine

• Royal Australian Army Medical Corps
  Royal Australian Army Medical Corps
  
  The 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 1903 and has participated in every Australian Army operation....
  
• Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps
  Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps
  
  The Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps is a Corps of the Australian Army. It was formed in February 1951 from the Royal Australian Army Nursing Service....
  
• Australian Army Medical Units, World War I
  Australian Army Medical Units, World War I
  
  Field Ambulance...
  

Israeli military medicine

• Medical Corps (Israel)
• Logistics, Medical, and the Centers Directorate

U.S. military medicine

• Military Health System
  Military Health System
  
  The Military Health System is the enterprise within the United States Department of Defense responsible for providing health care to active duty and retired U.S....
  
• TRICARE
  TRICARE
  
  TRICARE, formerly known as the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services , is a health care program of the United States Department of Defense Military Health System....
  
• Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  
  The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is a health science university run by the Federal government of the United States. The primary mission of the school is to prepare graduates for service to the U.S....
  

• Medical Corps (United States Army)
  Medical Corps (United States Army)
  
  The Medical Corps of the United States Army is a Staff Officer of the AMEDD consisting of Officer #Commissioned officers medical officers ? physicians with either an Doctor of Medicine or a Doctor of Osteopathy degree and at least one year of post-graduate clinical training....
  
• Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
  Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
  
  The Mobile Army Surgical Hospital refers to a United States Army medical unit serving as a fully functional hospital in a combat area of operations....
  
• Combat Support Hospital
  Combat support hospital
  
  A Combat Support Hospital is a type of field hospital. The CSH is a United States military mobile hospital delivered to the Corps Support Area in standard military-owned Demountable Containers cargo containers and assembled by the staff into a tent hospital to treat wounded soldiers....
  
• 68W
  68W
  
  68W is the Military Occupational Specialty for the United States Army's healthcare specialist, also known as the combat medic....
  , the "combat medic"
• Borden Institute
  Borden Institute
  
  The Borden Institute is a U.S. Army ?Center of Excellence in Military Medical Research and Education? located on the grounds of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center , in Washington, DC....
  
• Textbook of Military Medicine
  Textbook of Military Medicine
  
  The Textbook of Military Medicine is a series of volumes on military medicine published since 1989 by the Borden Institute, of the Surgeon General of the United States Army, United States Army....
   (1989-2007), published by the U.S. Army
• Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
  Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
  
  The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine is a private, not-for-profit organization established in 1983 and authorized by Congress to support medical research and education at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and throughout the military medical community....
  
• Fort Sam Houston
  Fort Sam Houston
  
  Fort Sam Houston is a United States Army post in San Antonio, Texas.Known colloquially as "Fort Sam", it is named for the first President of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston....
  
• Fort Detrick
  Fort Detrick
  
  Fort Detrick is a U.S. Army Medical Command installation located in Frederick, Maryland, USA. Historically, Fort Detrick was the center for the U.S....
  
• United States Army Dental Command
  United States Army Dental Command
  
  The U.S. Army Dental Command, known as DENCOM is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army United States Army Medical Command that provides command and control of the Army's fixed-facility dental treatment facilities, preventive care, dental research, development and training institutions, dental treatment to ensure the oral health...
  
• U.S. Army Medical Command
• Army Medical Department
• Forward Surgical Teams
  Forward Surgical Teams
  
  US Army Forward Surgical Teams are small, mobile surgical units fielded in their current form in the 1990s. However, evidence of small, mobile surgical teams date back to World War I....
  
• Battalion Aid Stations
  Battalion Aid Stations
  
  The Battalion Aid Station is a medical section within a battalion's support company in the military of the United States, specifically, the United States Army and United States Marine Corps....
  
• Surgeon General of the United States Army
• John Ordronaux (doctor)
  John Ordronaux (doctor)
  
  John Ordronaux was an American Civil War army surgeon, a professor of medical jurisprudence, a pioneering mental health commissioner and a generous patron of university endowments....
  

• Medical Corps (United States Navy)
• Hospital Corpsman
• Navy Dental Corps
  Navy Dental Corps
  
  The Dental Corps of the United States Navy consists of naval officers who have a Doctorate in either Dental Surgery or Dental Medicine and who practice dentistry caring for sailors and marines....
  
• Navy Medical Service Corps
  Navy Medical Service Corps
  
  The Medical Service Corps is a List of United States Navy staff corps of the United States Navy, consisting of officer engaged in medical support duties....
  
• United States Navy Nurse Corps
  United States Navy Nurse Corps
  
  The United States Navy Nurse Corps was formally established by the United States Congress in 1908. For nearly 100 years previously, however, women had worked as nurses aboard Navy ships and in Navy hospitals....
  
• Surgeon General of the United States Navy
  Surgeon General of the United States Navy
  
  The Surgeon General of the United States Navy is the senior-most Navy Medical Corps officer in the United States Navy....
  

• Surgeon General of the United States Air Force
  Surgeon General of the United States Air Force
  
  The Surgeon General of the United States Air Force is the senior-most Medical Service officer in the United States Air Force. In recent times, this has been a Lieutenant General who serves as head of the United States Air Force Medical Service ....
  
• Air Force Medical Service
  Air Force Medical Service
  
  The United States Air Force Medical Service consists of the five distinct medical corps of the United States Air Force and enlisted medical technicians....
  
• Aeromedical evacuation (United States)

See also

• International Committee of Military Medicine
  International Committee of Military Medicine
  
  The International Committee of Military Medicine is an international and intergovernmental organization consisting of more than one hundred states....
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• Triage
  Triage
  
  Block quoteTriage is a process of prioritizing patients based on the severity of their condition. This rations patient treatment efficiently when resources are insufficient for all to be treated immediately....
  
• Field hospital
  Field hospital
  
  A field hospital is a large mobile medical unit that temporarily takes care of casualties on-site before they can be safely transported to more permanent hospital facilities....
  
• MEDEVAC
  MEDEVAC
  
  Medical evacuation, often termed MEDEVAC or medivac, is the timely and efficient movement and en route care provided by medical personnel to the wounded being evacuated from the battlefield or to injured patients being evacuated from the scene of an accident to receiving medical facilities using medically equipped ground vehicl...
  
• CASEVAC
  CASEVAC
  
  Casevac is a portmanteau word meaning "Casualty evacuation". This can apply to injured soldiers or civilians, and is used to denote the emergency patient evacuation of injured people from a combat zone....
  
• Medical corps
  Medical Corps
  
  Medical Corps may refer to any of the following organizations:In the British Armed Forces and Commonwealth of Nations:* Royal Army Medical Corps, a specialist corps of the Army Medical Services that provides medical care to British Army personnel...
  
• Combat medic
  Combat medic
  
  Combat medics are trained military personnel who are responsible for providing first aid and frontline medicine on the battlefield. They are also responsible for providing continuing medical care in the absence of a readily available physician, including care for disease and non battle injury....
  
• Flight surgeon
  Flight surgeon
  
  A flight surgeon is a military medical officer assigned to duties in the clinical field known as aviation medicine. Flight surgeons are medical doctors, medical doctor having earned an Doctorate of Medicine or medical doctor having earned a Doctorate of Osteopathic Medicine who are primarily responsible for the medical evaluation, c...
  
• Combat stress reaction
  Combat stress reaction
  
  Combat stress reaction, in the past commonly known as shell shock or battle fatigue, is a military term used to categorize a range of behaviours resulting from the stress of battle which decrease the combatant's fighting efficiency....
  
• Surgeon General
  Surgeon General
  
  Surgeon General can have several different meanings.In the United States:*The Surgeon General of the United States is the head of the U.S....
  
• Medical Service Corps
  Medical Service Corps
  
  Medical Service Corps may refer to:* Medical Service Corps -a branch of the Air Force Medical Service* Navy Medical Service Corps -a service of the United States Navy...
  
• Military nurse
• Military medical ethics
  Military medical ethics
  
  Military medical ethics is a specialized branch of medical ethics with implications for military ethics. Both are primarily fields of applied ethics, the study of moral values and judgments as they apply to the specific contexts of medicine and military affairs, respectively....
  
• Military psychiatrist
  Military psychiatrist
  
  A military psychiatrist is usually a professional that deals with the treatment of military personnel and officer studying the psychological problems consequent to a war, a virtual War one, or during peacetime....
  

External links

• related links from USAF Air University
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• . Life and Death in the War Zone | NOVA
  NOVA (TV series)
  
  Nova is a popular science television series from the United States produced by WGBH-TV Boston. It can be seen on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, and in more than 100 other countries....
   | PBS
  Public Broadcasting Service
  
  The Public Broadcasting Service is an United States non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States....
  

• International Review of the Armed Forces Medical Services, the official review of the International Committee of Military Medicine
  International Committee of Military Medicine
  
  The International Committee of Military Medicine is an international and intergovernmental organization consisting of more than one hundred states....
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• International Magazine for Military Medicine