Souvenir brochure, Army Medical Corps reunion, Lucknow, March 1959.

  • India. Army Medical Corps.
Date:
[1959]
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Credit: Souvenir brochure, Army Medical Corps reunion, Lucknow, March 1959. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    training, they attended a Senior Officers’ Course which also included clinical training in civil medical institutions. Selected officers after completion of the course were permitted to study special subjects such as pathology, hygiene, medicine and surgery at the Royal Army Medical College. Officers, if desirous, could take study leave for obtaining postgraduate qualifications-from various civil medical colleges & institutions iny A). 7K. | In India, medical officers were sent to selected civil and military hospitals and institutions for specialist training in various clinical and laboratory subjects. They could also attend courses at the School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta and All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Calcutta. During the period 1939-42, medical officers after initial military training for 2 weeks at the IHC companies, were deputed by selection for further training in field medical units or for specialist appointments. This scheme imparted a very minimum of specialist training required to meet the immediate man-power commitments. The need for expansion of training facilities was felt and a medical wing was started at the Officers Training School -— O.T.S., MHOW in April in 1941. This wing was organised to train 100 medical officers at atime. The traininig was mainly confined to military subjects such as organisation of the army and tactical handling of medical units. In Dec 1940, a Training Field Hygiene Section was raised in BABINA, for training of medical officers and other ranks. A Viceroys Commissioned Officers’ and Non—Commissioned Officers’ School was sanctioned and located at POONA from 15 Dec 1941, for training of a large number of personnel for duty with field medical units. In 1942 it was realised that the medical wing at O.T.S. MHOW did not fulfil the training needs of the military medical service. It was then decided to establish an Army Medical Training Centre A.M.T.C. for the coordination and centralisation of Post-graduate medical education and training. In Dec 1942 the AMTC came into being by the amalgamation of medical wing of the OTS MHOW, the Field Ambulance Training Centre, the VCO and NCO School and ultimately the Army School of Hygiene, BABINA. The course for officers was of 3 months’ duration and included military training, clinical medicine, and clinical surgery with special emphasis on the medical problems in the field. The officers wing of the AMTC was originally designed for training of 150 officers ata time. After the formation of IAMC in Apr 1943, it became necessary to reorganise the AMTC. The intake of trainees was raised from 150 to 450. The syllabus of the training was also revised to bring as far as possible the licentiates who were being commissioned into the IAMC, to the same level of efficiency. as medical graduates. The training of ancillary personnel such as Laboratory Assistants, and technicians, dispensers, X-Ray assistants, and radiographers, blood transfusion assistants, sanitary assistants, dental technicians and dental hygienists before the World War_II was not organised centrally and cadres as such did not exist. Most of these duties were _ performed by members of the Indian Medical Department-I. M. D.. and other ranks of the Royal Army Medical Corps. During the war an attempt was made to organise a systematised method of training of these technical medical personnel.