Military service branch responsible for health and medical care for military personnel
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 of medical corps:
In the British Armed Forces and Commonwealth of Nations:
In the United States military:
In the Indian Armed Forces
- AFMS(Armed Forces Medical Services), 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:
- Army Medical Corps (Bangladesh)
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:
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
See also