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The Singapore Armed Forces Medical Corps

Today, the SAF Medical Corps comprises of 5 key foundation domains i.e.:
• Force Health,
• Force Medical Protection,
• Military Medical Training,
• Capability Development and
• Medical Operations,

which converge to support the full capability of military medical services in the Army, Air Force and Navy.
 

The Headquarters SAF Medical Corps, establishes policies and directs the full implementation of quality force health, medical force protection, operational support, medical information technology, medical manpower and logistics, as well as its medical inspectorate. It is supported by the Headquarters of the Army, Air Force and Navy Medical Services.

The SAF’s Military Medicine Institute (MMI) is the peacetime healthcare command of the medical corps that manages all peacetime healthcare matters for the whole of SAF. Under its command are local and overseas medical centres that provide primary healthcare for all personnel in the SAF. Quality healthcare delivery is a priority for the Medical Corps, with all its health facilities certified to the International Organisation for Standardisation’s ISO-9001 standards for their administrative processes and health service delivery. All medical centres are also linked together through an electronic consultation and medical records system known as the Patient Care Enhancement System or PACES. This PACES system ensures that all medical information of our personnel are housed in a central medical database and repository so as to enable our personnel to seek consultation any where in Singapore and at any time he/she chooses. Other than the primary healthcare clinics, MMI also provides specialist clinics looking at niche areas in military medicine. Specialist clinics like orthopaedics and injury prevention, visual performance, mental resilience and sports medicine clinics are run from the MMI headquarters situated in the Kent Ridge campus.

The SAF Medical Training Institute is a tri-service school that provides centralised training in traumatology and medical vocational skills, as well as operational training for National Service (reservist) medical units. It conducts internationally accredited courses for paramedics and in trauma life support, as well as customised modules for battlefield injury management and trauma surgery. The Medical Training Institute employs the latest pedagogies and leverages on its medical simulation centre and trauma training facilities to conduct realistic and professional training. A recent initiative is the establishment of a Memorandum of Understanding between SAF Medical Corps and Tan Tock Seng Hospital, one of the leading trauma centres in Singapore, to further developments in the field of traumatology. A specialist unit of the SAF Medical Corps is the Medical Response Force.

This is a high-readiness unit that deploys to treat contaminated casualties following chemical, biological or radiation incidents. As part of a reorganisation initiative, this unit is to be integrated with the Medical Corps’ outbreak response and preventive medicine branch, to provide a comprehensive force protection capability against both infectious diseases and unconventional threats.

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