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62B Field Surgeon

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Overview

Field Surgeons examine, diagnose, and treat battlefield diseases and injuries during the initial phase of care. They provide resuscitative and definitive care for injured and wounded soldiers within the capabilities of their unit's medical element.

Core Skills

  • Initial battlefield disease and injury treatment
  • Resuscitative and definitive casualty care

Civilian Career Paths

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Emergency Medicine Physicians

Battlefield diagnosis, initial treatment, and resuscitative care within the unit's medical capabilities overlap directly with emergency assessment and stabilization.

How to prepare: Ask a prospective hospital's credentialing office to review your medical education, residency training, and clinical experience for emergency department practice and identify any additional specialty training needed. All states require physician licensure, so confirm the target state's requirements with its medical board.

What the civilian work involves
  • Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs and priority of treatment.
  • Perform emergency resuscitations on patients.
  • Stabilize patients in critical condition.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Epic Systems
  • MEDITECH software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 62B Field Surgeon

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 62B (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer

    Supports: Initial battlefield disease and injury treatment, Resuscitative and definitive casualty care, Emergency Medicine Physicians (O*NET 29-1214.00)

  2. O*NET: Emergency Medicine Physicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Emergency Medicine Physicians (O*NET 29-1214.00)

  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: Emergency Medicine Physicians (O*NET 29-1214.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 62B

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