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Job Description

Save a Sailor’s life. Make a Marine smile again. This is your life as a Hospital Corpsman in the Navy Reserve. In this role, you will make a better life for yourself as you take care of the people who take care of our country. You will also undergo medical training that is unrivaled in the civilian world. Individuals in this community are highly regarded and generally carry more duties and responsibilities than their civilian counterparts.

Job Description

As a Hospital Corpsman, your responsibilities may include providing emergency medical treatment, transporting sick and injured personnel, or working in the field with Special Forces, the Seabees or the Marine Corps.

What Will You Do?

You’ll work hand-in-hand with top physicians and other health-care professionals, playing a key role in ensuring the health and wellbeing of our servicemembers â€" wherever they may be. As part of this occupational specialty, you may:

• Help prevent and treat diseases and injuries
• Render emergency medical treatment
• Administer medications, including injections
• Take and process X-rays and operate X-ray equipment
• Serve as an operating room technician for general and specialized surgery
• Operate sophisticated medical diagnostic treatment equipment
• Specialize in a number of fields, including radiology, search and rescue, optical and preventive medicine

Skills and Training

Working with an air squadron, with Special Forces or in a hospital or clinic, the advanced medical training you receive in the Navy Reserve prepares you for numerous specialties. You may have the opportunity to earn Department of Labor certification allowing you to work as an emergency medical technician (EMT). Your training may also prepare you to be, or enhance your current career as, a surgical technician, respiratory therapist, nuclear medical technologist, physical therapist’s assistant, pharmacist’s assistant or medical records clerk.

Most of the on-the-job training in the Medical field directly translates to credit at colleges and universities. Advanced technical and operational training is also available in many specialized fields.

Duties and responsibilities directly translate to careers in the civilian medical field. As long as people need medical services, individuals with skills in these areas will be in high demand.

To learn how you can become a Hospital Corpsman in the Navy Reserve, click apply and follow the link!

Job Requirements

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