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62Z General Medical Officer

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Overview

A General Medical Officer examines, diagnoses, and treats battlefield diseases and injuries during the initial phase of care. The officer provides resuscitative and definitive care for injured and wounded soldiers within the capabilities of the unit's medical element.

Core Skills

  • Initial battlefield disease and injury assessment
  • Resuscitative care within unit medical capabilities

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.

Family Medicine Physicians

Examining, diagnosing, and treating soldiers with battlefield disease and injury provides transferable experience in patient assessment and treatment planning.

How to prepare: Ask a family medicine residency program to review your postgraduate training and identify any additional specialty training needed. Confirm licensing requirements with the intended state's medical board, since all states require physician licensure and standardized national exams.

What the civilian work involves
  • Prescribe or administer treatment, therapy, medication, vaccination, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury.
  • Order, perform, and interpret tests and analyze records, reports, and examination information to diagnose patients' condition.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Epic Systems
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 62Z General Medical Officer

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

    Supports: Initial battlefield disease and injury assessment, Resuscitative care within unit medical capabilities, Family Medicine Physicians (O*NET 29-1215.00)

  2. O*NET: Family Medicine Physicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Family Medicine Physicians (O*NET 29-1215.00)

  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: Family Medicine Physicians (O*NET 29-1215.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 62Z

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