Medical corps


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 Pakistan Army:
In the Indian Armed Forces
  • Armed Forces Medical Services, known as Army Medical Corps that is responsible for medical care to Indian Armed Forces 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:
  • Medical Corps
In the Israel Defense Forces:
  • Medical Corps
In the Myanmar Armed Forces:
In the Bangladesh Armed Forces:
  • Army Medical Corps
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:
In the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation:
In the German Armed Forces :
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