ABSTRACT
The British Military exists to protect the UK, prevent conflict, deal with disaster, and fight the nation's enemies. If medical students would like a medical career supporting these objectives, the life of a military doctor could be for them. The UK has three services that employ doctors: the Army, Navy, and Royal Air Force. Doctors in the military are either regulars or reservists. Deployable doctors ‘sign up’ to work within military units and physically accompany the soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the UK military. Military doctors are present wherever the military is deployed. Once a military doctor has graduated from medical school, they enter into their Foundation Programme training like any other National Health Service doctor. A reservist will function in exactly the same way as a regular military doctor and will be required to undertake the same pre-deployment training and pass the same assessments and validations as their regular counterparts.
