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61N Aerospace Medicine

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Overview

An Aerospace Medicine officer provides aviation medical services to Army aviation personnel. The officer also provides general medical services for those personnel.

Core Skills

  • General medical care for aviation personnel

Civilian Career Paths

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Preventive Medicine Physicians

Providing aviation and general medical services to Army aviation personnel aligns with the aerospace medicine component of preventive medicine.

How to prepare: Compare your medical education and residency records with the target state's medical board requirements and prospective employers' specialty credentialing criteria to identify any training gaps. All states require physician licensure, and specialty practice typically follows residency training.

What the civilian work involves
  • Direct or manage prevention programs in specialty areas such as aerospace, occupational, infectious disease, and environmental medicine.
  • Document or review comprehensive patients' histories with an emphasis on occupation or environmental risks.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 61N Aerospace Medicine

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 61N (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer

    Supports: General medical care for aviation personnel, Preventive Medicine Physicians (O*NET 29-1229.05)

  2. O*NET: Preventive Medicine Physicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Preventive Medicine Physicians (O*NET 29-1229.05)

  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: Preventive Medicine Physicians (O*NET 29-1229.05)

Defense contractor jobs for 61N

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