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Corps Chief

Stephen M. Mounts
Senior Executive Service and Deputy Surgeon General

Medical Civilian Corps

In May 2015, the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General directed the establishment of a Medical Civilian Corps within the Air Force Medical Service on par with the officer corps and enlisted force.

The AFMS Medical Civilian Corps helps the Air Force maintain its readiness to be the best fighting force in the world.

With more than 170,000 members, Air Force civilians work side-by-side with Airmen to support the Air Force mission in air and space.

For more information, please access DAFMAN 36-142, Civilian Career Field Management and Centrally-Managed Programs and DAFI 36-2670, Total Force Development.


Contact Us

Attn: Medical Civilian Corps
Office of the U.S Air Force Surgeon General address:
7700 Arlington Boulevard, Falls Church, Virginia 22042-5101

Email: Medical Civilian Corps

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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE AIR FORCE CIVILIAN SERVICE

What We Do

As uniformed medics deploy or make a permanent change of station, civilian medical professionals keep the heartbeat of care at home alive. They know the patients, understand the systems, and ensure continuity during transitions.

The Medical Civilian Corps consists of healthcare providers, administrators, researchers, and support staff who work alongside uniformed personnel across the Air Force Medical Service.

These professionals bring extensive expertise, long-term stability, and institutional knowledge to military treatment facilities around the world.

They assist in training new clinicians, manage ongoing care for beneficiaries, and support the infrastructure that ensures AFMS operates smoothly. In many facilities, they are the familiar faces patients trust - and the steady hands keeping operations aligned through deployments, surges, and leadership changes.

Medical civilians are not just support staff - they are vital partners in maintaining readiness and providing top-quality care to Airmen, Guardians, and their families every day.

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Global Impact

The AFMS mission is to enable medically fit forces, provide expeditionary medics, and improve the health of all who serve at more than 80 Air Force bases and installations.

With more than 600 career fields, civilians provide vital functions across a range of specializations in both domestic and overseas locations.

Civilians make a significant global impact through technical expertise, international relations, logistics, research and development, and humanitarian efforts. They do so by supporting:

  • Readiness: Ensure medics are current, trained and equipped to deliver “Trusted Care, Anywhere” in support of full spectrum military operations.
  • Better Care: Provide reliable access to safe, quality care, and promoting positive patient experiences and outcomes.
  • Better Health: Encourage healthy behaviors to enhance resilient and human performance, while reducing illness and injury.
  • Best Values: Focus on the utilization of people and resources through effective management to attain Readiness, Better Care and Better Health.


Pathways: Career / Education

It’s our mission to provide our Airmen and their families with the best healthcare possible, so we’re constantly seeking to add more of the best healthcare professionals to our team. From general medicine to highly focused subspecialties, there are dozens of exciting healthcare careers in the U.S. Air Force.

Healthcare professionals in the Air Force provide the highest-quality care by staying on top of the latest innovations in the medical field.

  • The Role of the Civilian Liaison

    Civilian Liaisons are at all levels of AFMS, providing onsite strategic consultation and partnering services for a wide variety of classification, recruitment and staffing needs.


    The CL helps forecast future workforce requirements, advises on skills and affirmative employment gaps, assists in developing short and long range staffing plans, and advises on multiple classification and recruitment strategies and pay flexibilities.


    In addition, the CL serves as the interface between the organization, the local Civilian Personnel Section and the Air Force Personnel Center for a variety of Human Resource issues, such as certificates that do not meet a member's needs, pay issues, corrections to HR records, classification of positions, and Priority Placement Program matches, qualifications disputes and submission of Request for Personnel Actions.


    The CL also assists in structuring the organization and meeting organizational needs. They assist in developing or rewriting position descriptions, and provide classification advisories.


    When a member receives a selection certificate, the CL assists in determining if the selection certificate meets the member's need, helps expedite the selection, and follows through with the job offer and entrance on duty process for the new employee.

  • The Role Of the Civilian Career Field Team

    The Medical Career Field Team serves multiple functions aside from being Subject Matter Experts for the Medical Civilian Corps.


    The CFT provides career field management and development advisory for all civilian personnel assigned to the Air Force Medical Service and to support the AFMS Career Field Manager in Air Force-wide career management and force development of the civilian inventory.


    The roles of the CFT cover four distinct areas:


    1. Renew the Force

    2. Care for the Force

    3. Develop the Force

    4. Sustain the Force
  • Advancement & Continuing Education Opportunities
    • Air Force Institute of Technology - graduate and post-graduate education
    • Education With Industry - spend up to one year working for premiere civilian institutions such as Johns Hopkins University hospital, Apple and Amazon
    • Professional Affiliations - board certification from civilian professional development organizations

READY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE? LEARN MORE ABOUT A WIDE ARRAY OF EDUCATIONAL AND CAREER-BROADENING OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN THE MEDICAL CIVILIAN CORPS