# Medical corps

A medical corps is generally a military branch or officer corps responsible for medical care for serving military personnel. Such officers are typically 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 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:
* Medical Corps (United States Army), a corps that consists of all physicians of the U.S. Army Medical Department
* Medical Corps (United States Navy), 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 Indian Armed Forces
* AFMS(Armed Forces Medical Services), 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 (Ireland)
In the Israel Defense Forces:
* Medical Corps (Israel)
In the Myanmar Armed Forces:
* Myanmar Army Medical Corps
In the Bangladesh Armed Forces:
* Army Medical Corps (Bangladesh)
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 Army Dental Corps
* United States Army Dental Corps, a special branch of the Army Medical Department (United States)
* United States Navy Dental Corps
* Army Dental Corps (India)
* Army Dental Corps (Pakistan)
* Army Dental Corps (Bangladesh)