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61P Physiatrist

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Overview

An Army physiatrist plans and establishes a physical medicine program at a medical installation. This officer directs the program and its activities.

Core Skills

  • Physical medicine program development and direction

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.

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians

Planning, establishing, and directing an Army physical medicine program provides directly relevant specialty experience for civilian rehabilitation medicine.

How to prepare: Request a review of your medical education, specialty residency records, and state licensure status with a prospective rehabilitation employer's credentialing office. All states require physician licensure, with requirements varying by state.

What the civilian work involves
  • Examine patients to assess mobility, strength, communication, or cognition.
  • Provide inpatient or outpatient medical management of neuromuscular disorders, musculoskeletal trauma, acute and chronic pain, deformity or amputation, cardiac or pulmonary disease, or other disabling conditions.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software

Medical and Health Services Managers

Establishing and directing a physical medicine program transfers directly to managing a civilian rehabilitation department's programs and services.

How to prepare: Build a program-leadership portfolio describing your role in establishing and directing physical medicine services, then compare it with rehabilitation department management openings. Employers typically seek healthcare administrative or clinical experience, while education requirements vary by facility and function.

What the civilian work involves
  • Plan, implement, and administer programs and services in a health care or medical facility, including personnel administration, training, and coordination of medical, nursing and physical plant staff.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (5 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 61P Physiatrist

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

    Supports: Physical medicine program development and direction, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians (O*NET 29-1229.04), Medical and Health Services Managers (O*NET 11-9111.00)

  2. O*NET: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians (O*NET 29-1229.04)

  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: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians (O*NET 29-1229.04)

  4. O*NET: Medical and Health Services Managers

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Medical and Health Services Managers (O*NET 11-9111.00)

  5. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Medical and Health Services Managers

    [5] What They Do; How to Become One, education, experience and licensure sections; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Medical and Health Services Managers (O*NET 11-9111.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 61P

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