The Dilemma Over Medical Command and Control

Abstract

The command surgeon presents a dilemma to the line and staff model in that the command surgeon actually performs line and staff functions. An attempt to solve this dilemma is playing out in Army Transformation as the Army and the Army Medical Department (AMEDD) leadership struggle with how to flatten medical command and control structures. The AMEDD maintains that it needs four regionally focused medical commands, in the form of a Medical Command (Deployment Support) [MEDCOM(DS)], at the Army Service Component Command (ASCC) level. At this same level, each regionally focused ASCC commander has a command surgeon with a staff section that appears to serve the same function as the medical command. The question that needs to be answered is, is there a difference between the ASCC Command Surgeon's Division and the MEDCOM(DS)?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 13, 2008
Accession Number
ADA506273

Entities

People

  • Jason R. Sepanic

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Deployment
  • Employment
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Iraqi-War
  • Lessons Learned
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Hospitals
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Therapy
  • United States Government
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Trauma or Military Medicine

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control