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The Army Medical Department of the U.S. Army (AMEDD), formerly known as the Army Medical Service (AMS), encompasses the Army's six medical Special Branches (or "Corps"). It was established as the "Army Hospital" in July 1775 to coordinate the medical care required by the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
The U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) is a direct reporting unit of the U.S. Army that formerly provided command and control of the Army's fixed-facility medical, dental, and veterinary treatment facilities, providing preventive care, medical research and development and training institutions. On 1 October 2019, operational and administrative ...
The Medical Corps (MC) of the U.S. Army is a staff corps (non-combat specialty branch) of the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD) consisting of commissioned medical officers – physicians with either an M.D. or a D.O. degree, at least one year of post-graduate clinical training, and a state medical license. The MC traces its earliest origins ...
It serves the U.S. Army in educating and training all of its medical personnel. The Center formulates the Army Medical Department 's (AMEDD's) organization, tactics, doctrine, equipment, and academic training support. In 2015, the mission for the Academy of Health Sciences (AHS) moved from the School to the Center, and was renamed the ...
23rd General Hospital, Fort Dix, New Jersey, November 1945 [ 31 ] 25th General Hospital, Camp Shanks, New York, 20 November 1945 [ 32 ] 26th General Hospital, 14 September 1945 in Italy [ 33 ] 27th General Hospital, end of World War II [ 10 ] 28th General Hospital [ 34 ] Camp d’Orléans, France, 26 September 1945.
Surgeon General of the Army [ 2] Major General. Norman T. Kirk. June 1, 1943. Surgeon General of the Army. Namesake of Kirk United States Army Health Clinic (formerly hospital), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Major General. Shelley U. Marietta. September 13, 1943.
Army Medical Department (AMEDD), 27 July 1775; The Army Medical Department and the Medical Corps trace their origins to 27 July 1775, when the Continental Congress established the army hospital headed by a "Director General and Chief Physician." Congress provided a medical organization of the army only in time of war or emergency until 1818 ...
The Department of War and Department of the Navy were merged into a single Department of Defense (DOD). This caused friction between the Army and Navy medical corps. Furthermore, the Air Force, originally part of the Army, was created as a separate military service with its own separate Medical Service. [citation needed]