GENERAL PRACTICE PHYSICIAN

OFFICER GENERAL PRACTICE PHYSICIAN

Making a Difference Every Day

Keeping our Airmen healthy is a top priority. General Practice Physicians in the Air Force are responsible for examining, diagnosing and treating a wide range of diseases and injuries. Within their general practice, they also prepare and review case histories to help obtain data for future patients.

What You'll Do

• Manage primary care services
• Perform minor surgical procedures
• Assemble and evacuate sick and wounded personnel
• Examine patients and determine X-ray examinations and clinical laboratory tests required
• Interpret test results and evaluate examination findings
• Administer and prescribe measures of treatment as antibiotics, drugs and compresses

Training & Education

How do we transform you from a raw recruit to an expert Airman in this field? From hands-on experience to college credit toward a degree, the path begins here.

• Officer Training School

  5.5 weeks

• Military Training Location

  Maxwell AFB AL

Key Things To Consider Requirements

You must meet several requirements before joining the Air Force. These concern your background, overall health and other standards set by the Air Force, Department of Defense and federal law.

• • Doctor of Medicine degree or a doctor of osteopathy degree from an approved school of medicine or osteopathy, and completion of 1 year of graduate medical education in a clinical specialty at a hospital acceptable to the Surgeon General, HQ USAF, is mandatory.
  • A passing score on the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT)
• • Completion of Officer Training School (OTS), Air Force Academy (AFA) or Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC)
  • Must be at least 17, but has not reached age 42 on the date of enlistment