A medical corps is generally a military branch or officer corps responsible for medical care for serving military personnel. Such officers are typically 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

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