Word: corpsmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There are still 152 other Americans, most of them missionaries and Peace Corpsmen, in the threatened region...
...area. Houses adjacent to the Savoy were evacuated. Around the corner, army medical teams set up field hospitals and aid stations. Swarms of neighborhood kids and late-night revelers gathered to watch the action as armored cars took up positions at either end of the street. K-9 corpsmen with German shepherds stationed themselves in alleyways to make sure none of the commandos escaped...
Several countries of varying medical affluence apparently agree. The government of Cameroun has established a health institute in Yaoundé to train a variety of nonprofessional practitioners. The U.S. Government is also interested in the idea. It is sponsoring programs to use former military corpsmen as Medex, or physicians' assistants, and has already put several to work in doctors' offices in the Pacific Northwest...
Wasted Years. Smith turned to a previously untapped manpower pool: the medical corpsmen who administer emergency care and assist physicians throughout the military services. "The armed forces spend up to $25,000 for training each corpsman," he explained. "A corpsman may have from 600 to 2,000 hours of formal medical training and up to 20 years of experience. Yet, after his discharge, he can rarely find a related health job in civilian life...
...Smith and his medical school launched the first Medex demonstration program with 15 former medical corpsmen. Paid by the Government, the men got three months' training that emphasized skills missing from their military experience, such as pediatrics and geriatrics. The trainees were then paired with general practitioners for year-long preceptorships, after which they were hired by the doctors for salaries ranging from...