Careers

Career Description

Caring for the men and women of the Air Force, their families and retirees is the responsibility of thousands of doctors and specialists like you. As an Air Force Internist, you'll do everything you do now, only you'll do it without the worries of running a practice, managing overhead expenses or waiting on insurance approvals. Your sole worry will be providing the best care possible to your patients.

Career Tasks

• Treat and evaluate a wide range of disease processes by caring for the majority of retirees and their families
• Inpatient, outpatient and clinical duties
• Serve in several ancillary positions, all vital to the operation of a medical center:
  pharmacy and therapeutics committee member
  subject matter expert for process improvement teams
  affiliate faculty of advanced cardiac life support training
• Take part in refresher training at The Centers for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills in a wartime environment
• Participate in graduate medical education, available at several sites for both internal medicine and family medicine residency programs
• Conduct periodic technical seminars for other professional staff for continued delivery of world-class healthcare to beneficiaries

Relevant Interests & Skills

You might like this career if you have interests in these areas:

• Health and Medicine
• Natural Science
• Business Operations and Administration

Becoming a Direct Commission Officer

To ease your transition into the Air Force, you'll enter a five-week training regimen designed to educate you on the ways of both the military and military healthcare. You'll participate in physical conditioning five days a week, leadership training and classroom studies.