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A medical corps is an explicitly non-combatant a military branch or officer corps responsible for medical care for serving military personnel.[1] Such officers are typically[citation needed] unarmed military physicians.
List of medical corps
The following organizations are examples of medical corps:
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 Canadian Medical Service, the unified branch of all non-dental medical personnel, providing care for all Navy, Army and Air Force 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:
- United States Army Medical Corps, a corps that consists of all physicians of the U.S. Army Medical Department
- United States Navy Medical Corps, 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 Pakistan Army:
In the Indian Armed Forces
- Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS), known as Army Medical Corps that is responsible for medical care to Indian Armed Forces (Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard) personnel. It is tri-service organization. It provides medical support to the Armed Forces during war as well as comprehensive health care to all service personnel, ex-servicemen and their dependents during peace. Army Medical Corps provides medical aid during natural calamities both at national and international levels. AFMS has a common pool which allows officers to migrate from one service to another depending on the requirement.
In the French Armed Forces:
In the Irish Defence Forces:
In the Israel Defense Forces:
In the Myanmar Armed Forces:
In the Bangladesh Armed Forces:
In the Polish Armed Forces:
- Military Health Service, part of the Polish Armed Forces providing a comprehensive full-scale military health service to them
In the Singapore Armed Forces:
- SAF Medical Corps, a tri-service organization part of the Singapore Armed Forces that provides medical support for the Singapore Army, Navy and Air Force.
In the South African National Defence Force:
- South African Military Health Service, a distinct Arm of Service (as opposed to Army, Navy or Air Force), providing a comprehensive full-scale military health service to the South African National Defence Force
In the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation:
In the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr):
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 Dental Corps
- United States Army Dental Corps, a special branch of the Army Medical Department
- United States Navy Dental Corps
- Army Dental Corps (India)
- Army Dental Corps (Pakistan)
- Army Dental Corps (Bangladesh)
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
- SS Medical Corps, of the SS in the Nazi Germany
References
- ↑ Meyer, Jessica (2019). An Equal Burden: The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War (illustrated ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 220. ISBN 9780198824169.
