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

Abstract

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 07, 2003
Accession Number
ADA414929

Entities

People

  • Dennis D. Doyle

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combatant Commanders
  • Health Services
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Hospitals
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Therapy
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Transportation Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Medical or Health Care Field.