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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{{Citation needed}} [[military physician]]s. |
A '''medical corps''' is generally a military branch or officer corps responsible for medical care for serving military personnel. Such officers are typically{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}} [[military physician]]s. |
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==List of medical corps== |
==List of medical corps== |
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Revision as of 14:33, 1 April 2015
A medical corps is generally a military branch or officer corps responsible for medical care for serving military personnel. Such officers are typically[citation needed] military physicians.
List of medical corps
The following organizations are examples:
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
- Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, the branch of the Australian Army responsible for providing medical care to Army personnel
- Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps, a corps of the New Zealand Army that is responsible for medical care to Army personnel
- Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps, 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), 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:
In the Myanmar Armed Forces:
Dental corps
A dental corps is a specialist military unit, generally including dentists and dedicated to maintaining the dental health of service personnel. Dental corps are therefore a kind of medical corps, and are typically either within the medical corps of their military organization, or closely associated with it.
List of dental corps
- Royal Army Dental Corps, a specialist corps of the British Army Medical Services
- Royal Australian Army Dental Corps
- Royal Canadian Dental Corps
- Royal New Zealand Army Dental Corps
- United States Army Dental Corps, a special branch of the Army Medical Department (United States)
- United States Navy Dental Corps
See also
- Medical Reserve Corps, a civilian program in the United States
- International Medical Corps (IMC), a global humanitarian nonprofit organization
- Medical Cadet Corps, a Seventh-day Adventist organization