{{Short description|Military service branch responsible for health and medical care for military personnel}} {{Distinguish|Medical service corps}} {{War|expanded=Military}} {{One source|date=March 2026}} A '''medical corps''' is an explicitly non-combatant a military branch or officer corps responsible for medical care for serving military personnel.<ref>{{cite book | last = Meyer | first = Jessica | title = An Equal Burden: The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War | edition = illustrated | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford | year = 2019 | pages = 220 | isbn = 9780198824169 }}</ref> Such officers are typically{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}} unarmed military physicians.
==List of medical corps== The following organizations are examples of medical corps:
'''In the British Armed Forces and Commonwealth of Nations:''' * Royal Army Medical Corps, a specialist corps of the Army Medical Services that provides medical care to British Army personnel * Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, the branch of the Australian Army responsible for providing medical care to Army personnel * Royal Canadian Medical Service, the unified branch of all non-dental medical personnel, providing care for all Navy, Army and Air Force personnel. * Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps, a corps of the New Zealand Army that is responsible for medical care to Army personnel * Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps, a corps of the Sri Lanka Army that is responsible for medical care to Army personnel
'''In the United States military:''' * United States Army Medical Corps, a corps that consists of all physicians of the U.S. Army Medical Department * United States Navy Medical Corps, a staff corps of the United States Navy consisting of doctors in a variety of specialties * United States Air Force Medical Service, a corps that consists of all physicians of the U.S. Air Force Medical Service '''In the Pakistan Army:'''
'''In the Indian Armed Forces''' * Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS), 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:''' * Defence Health Service
'''In the Irish Defence Forces:''' * Medical Corps
'''In the Israel Defense Forces:''' * Medical Corps
'''In the Myanmar Armed Forces:''' * Myanmar Army Medical Corps
'''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:''' * 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:''' * Main Military Medical Directorate
'''In the German Armed Forces (''Bundeswehr''):''' * Zentraler Sanitätsdienst
==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=== * Royal Army Dental Corps, a specialist corps of the British Army Medical Services * Royal Australian Army Dental Corps * Royal Canadian Dental Corps * Royal New Zealand Dental Corps * United States Army Dental Corps, a special branch of the Army Medical Department * United States Navy Dental Corps * Army Dental Corps (India) * Army Dental Corps (Pakistan) * Army Dental Corps (Bangladesh)
==See also== *Medical Reserve Corps, a civilian program in the United States *International Medical Corps (IMC), a global humanitarian nonprofit organization *Medical Cadet Corps, a Seventh-day Adventist organization *SS Medical Corps, of the SS in the Nazi Germany
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+Medical corps Category:Army medical administrative corps