History of Military Pediatrics: Fifty Years of Training and Deploying Uniformed Pediatricians

The military services employ pediatricians primarily to care for the children of active-duty service people. Military pediatric training programs provide enlisted physicians-in-training with the pediatric experience required for board certifications. Chelsea Naval Base in Boston, MA, started the fir...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 1999-06, Vol.103 (6), p.1298-1303
Main Authors: Callahan, Charles W, Bass, James W, Person, Donald A, Shira, James E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed forces
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Education, Medical - history
Forecasting
Health participants
History
History of medicine
History, 20th Century
Humans
Medical colleges
Medical schools
Medical sciences
Medicine, Military
Military aspects
Military medicine
Military Medicine - education
Military Medicine - history
Military Medicine - trends
Pediatricians
Pediatrics
Pediatrics - education
Pediatrics - history
Pediatrics - trends
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
United States
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Summary:The military services employ pediatricians primarily to care for the children of active-duty service people. Military pediatric training programs provide enlisted physicians-in-training with the pediatric experience required for board certifications. Chelsea Naval Base in Boston, MA, started the first military pediatrics program in 1946, and 65 pediatric residents currently graduate each year from nine military training programs.
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275
DOI:10.1542/peds.103.6.1298