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60X Critical Care Medicine Officer

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Overview

This Army skill identifier marks physician positions requiring special qualifications in critical care medicine. It covers the management, evaluation, and integration of care for critically ill patients within the Army Medical Department.

Core Skills

  • Care integration for multi-system organ failure
  • Clinical support for aeromedical evacuation
  • In-theater resuscitation and patient stabilization

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Critical Care Medicine Physician

Managing and integrating care for critically ill patients with complex injuries and multi-system organ failure directly overlaps civilian critical care practice.

How to prepare: Ask a prospective hospital's credentialing office to review your residency and fellowship records for ICU privileges, and consult the relevant specialty board about any certification gaps.

What the civilian work involves
  • Diagnose, treat, and support critically ill and injured patients.
  • Coordinate comprehensive care with critical care staff and other specialists.

Hospitalists

Evaluating and integrating care for patients with complex illness transfers to continuous inpatient care beyond the ICU.

How to prepare: Review your residency background and recent clinical scope with a hospitalist group's credentialing team to identify preparation needed for general inpatient care, admissions, and discharge planning.

What the civilian work involves
  • Diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients.
  • Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays).
  • Conduct discharge planning and discharge patients.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Epic Systems
  • Computerized physician order entry CPOE software

Notes & Sources

  • Both paths require state physician licensure, including standardized national examinations; confirm the applicable requirements with the destination state's medical board.
Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 60X Critical Care Medicine Officer

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 60X (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer

    Supports: Care integration for multi-system organ failure, Clinical support for aeromedical evacuation, In-theater resuscitation and patient stabilization, Critical Care Medicine Physician, Hospitalists (O*NET 29-1229.02)

  2. American Board of Medical Specialties: Critical Care Medicine

    [2] Subspecialties, Critical Care Medicine; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Critical Care Medicine Physician

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Physicians and Surgeons

    [3] What They Do; Duties; How to Become One, Training and Licenses, Certifications, and Registrations; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Critical Care Medicine Physician, Hospitalists (O*NET 29-1229.02)

  4. O*NET: Hospitalists

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Hospitalists (O*NET 29-1229.02)

Defense contractor jobs for 60X

Descriptions may be summarized for clarity. Verify all information with your branch career counselor or official military documentation before making career decisions.

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