Tri-Service Medical Transformation - Time for a Unified Military Medical Command (USMEDCOM)

Download or read book Tri-Service Medical Transformation - Time for a Unified Military Medical Command (USMEDCOM) written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current U.S. military medical service structure is redundant and inefficient. Each service trains, equips and organizes its own medical force under the direction of a Surgeon General and medical department (the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery - BUMED, the Army Medical Command - USAMEDCOM, and the Air Force Medical Service - AFMS). Yet all these medical departments are interwoven in and subordinate to the Defense Health Program (DHP) and its peacetime health care delivery system - TRICARE. This paper assesses the current Department of Defense (DOD) medical support organization and proposes the development of a unified medical command (USMEDOOM) that will provide health care across the services more efficiently through the common training, organizing and equipping of a joint medical force.