Medical Corps Peacetime Issues Affecting Wartime Readiness.
Abstract
The Medical Corps faces a dual role of providing peacetime health care while simultaneously preparing itself to fulfill its wartime medical support mission. In the past, peacetime health care has taken priority over wartime medical readiness. This group study project addresses several issues dealing with the peacetime organization, training and utilization of the active duty Medical Corps to promote maximum wartime medical readiness. The study assumes that medical readiness takes priority over the peacetime health care mission. Data was gathered from a multitude of Army Medical Department and other DOD resources. The study reviews the Medical Corps wartime requirements as defined in the June 1985 MOBPERSACS and makes recommendations to fill the surgical TOE shortages as well as the gross shortage in TDA requirements. The Army's graduate medical education system is discussed as it pertains to achieving the appropriate specialty mix for the wartime readiness mission. Training and utilization strategies are recommended to significantly improve the individual combat medical readiness of the Army's corps of medical officers. The study concludes with a review of the peacetime military health care system and possible alternatives of using the civilian health care system to provide care for a portion of DOD eligible beneficiaries.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 15, 1986
- Accession Number
- ADA169750
Entities
People
- Garland E. Mccarty
- James C. Connolly Ii
- Melvin L. Butler
- Ronald G. Williams
- Ronald R. Blanck
Organizations
- United States Army War College