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65D Physician Assistant

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Overview

An Army Physician Assistant plans, organizes, performs, and supervises troop medical care at Levels I and II. The officer directs medical services, trains enlisted medics, leads medical platoons, and manages the personnel, facilities, and equipment needed to operate troop clinics and other medical activities.

Core Skills

  • Level I and II troop care coordination
  • Clinical instruction for enlisted medics
  • Troop clinic staffing and resource management

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.

Physician Assistants

Performing and supervising Level I and II troop medical care provides directly transferable patient-care experience.

How to prepare: Compare your PA education and clinical records with your target state board's licensing requirements and prospective employers' credentialing criteria; civilian entry typically requires a master's degree from an accredited PA program. All states require licensure and a qualifying exam, and most states require an agreement with a supervising physician.

What the civilian work involves
  • Make tentative diagnoses and decisions about management and treatment of patients.
  • Examine patients to obtain information about their physical condition.
  • Interpret diagnostic test results for deviations from normal.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Epic Systems
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software
  • MEDITECH software

Medical and Health Services Managers

Directing troop clinics and managing their personnel, facilities, equipment, and medic training transfers to civilian healthcare operations.

How to prepare: Complete a healthcare finance course covering clinic budgeting, reimbursement, and financial reporting to address civilian responsibilities beyond the documented troop-clinic duties.

What the civilian work involves
  • Direct, supervise and evaluate work activities of medical, nursing, technical, clerical, service, maintenance, and other personnel.
  • 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.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 65D Physician Assistant

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 65D (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer

    Supports: Level I and II troop care coordination, Clinical instruction for enlisted medics, Troop clinic staffing and resource management, Physician Assistants (O*NET 29-1071.00), Medical and Health Services Managers (O*NET 11-9111.00)

  2. O*NET: Physician Assistants

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Physician Assistants (O*NET 29-1071.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: physician assistants

    [3] How to Become One; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Physician Assistants (O*NET 29-1071.00)

  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)

Defense contractor jobs for 65D

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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