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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Veröffentlicht in:	Pediatrics (Evanston) 1999-06, Vol.103 (6), p.1298-1303
Hauptverfasser:	Callahan, Charles W, Bass, James W, Person, Donald A, Shira, James E
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	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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Zusammenfassung:	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