Defence Medical Academy | |
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Active | 1996 | – present
Country | United Kingdom |
Branch | British Army Royal Air Force Royal Navy |
Type | Defence training centre |
Role | Medical training |
Part of | Defence Medical Services |
Location | DMS Whittington, Staffordshire |
The Defence Medical Academy is based at DMS Whittington. It is the training centre of Defence Medical Services. It trains military personnel to deal with situations that civilian paramedics would be involved with; i.e. more advanced situations than those which just require first aid.
The organization was formed as the Defence Medical Services Training Centre from the medical training centres for the three services [lower-alpha 1] at Keogh Barracks in 1996 [1] and was initially subordinate to the Defence Medical Training Organisation. [2] It became subordinate to the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine in 2008 [3] and moved to Whittington Barracks as the Defence College of Healthcare Education and Training in 2014. [4] It was renamed the Defence Medical Academy in September 2019. [5]
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