Armed Forces GP
Although the days of serving all over the world are over, the
army of the next century still offers plenty of variety. The
strategic defence review led to the hospital-based specialties
largely being amalgamated into a tri-service organisation (navy,
army, and air force combined) but the general practitioners of each
service still retain their single service identity. The army
employs 220 uniformed general practitioners worldwide, with
the option of serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) for
anything from three years to 30 years. The standard
army general practitioner's day involves a mixture of core general
medical services work and more specific military medical
work.