Medical corps

A medical corps is an explicitly non-combatant a military branch or officer corps responsible for medical care for serving military personnel. 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:

In the United States military:

In the Pakistan Army:

In the Indian Armed Forces

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:

In the Singapore Armed Forces:

In 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

References

  1. ↑ 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.