What your role could involve.
RAF Medical Officers play a vital role in keeping our personnel fit and medically prepared for their operational role, at home and when deployed.
All RAF Medical Officers receive basic training in aerospace medicine and have the opportunity to train further to provide specialist medical support to the RAF and the UK Armed Forces, including Aeromedical Evacuation.
Your role is pivotal in maintaining the effectiveness of the RAF in delivering Air Power by maximising the fitness of personnel for their tasks.
You will deliver a high standard of care under demanding but rewarding conditions, including the extra challenges of working in a field hospital or deployed medical centre; often in austere settings.
The RAF employ specialists in most of the major fields of medicine and surgery and you will have the opportunity to excel in your chosen specialty.
There are 3 routes of entry as a Medical Officer:
1. Medical students – via Medical Sponsorship. Further information can be found here: Medical Sponsorship Royal Air Force Medical Sponsorship
2. Resident doctors – following completion of Foundation Training( FT must be undertaken in the UK).
3. Professionally qualified doctors – post-CCT in selected specialties. In some cases, entry pre-CCT at higher training levels may be considered, subject to specialty and Service requirement.
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