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As an Air Guard health professional, you will benefit from the wide range of medical challenges presented by our diverse missions. You will learn military medicine and expand your horizons. You may find yourself in the middle of the action during a natural disaster, civil emergency, or homeland crisis – situations where your skills are critical and your character can make all the difference. Plus, you’ll have the satisfaction of helping your community and country when they need you most.

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Why Air Guard? Health Professionals have the unique opportunity to provide humanitarian aid to communities, while tapping into the career growth and adventure that the Air Guard provides. Open Tab Button Why Air Guard? Are you looking for unique challenges, adventure and career growth? As a health professional in the Air Guard, you could provide in-flight care to sick or injured patients being airlifted out of a disaster-stricken area. You could be responsible for saving countless lives in a field hospital in the aftermath of a hurricane, flood, fire, or tornado. You could assemble triages and help to evacuate individuals in the most challenging of circumstances. Whether you’re currently in school, just starting in medicine, or well-established in your career, you could do all this—and more—serving part-time in the Air Guard. You’ll be a vital member of our exceptional medical team. You’ll work with high-tech equipment and utilize state-of-the-art treatments. And you’ll have the opportunity to help others—from treating fellow Airmen to helping people as part of a humanitarian mission. The Air Guard offers many federal benefits/entitlements to their unit members and their families such as the Base Exchange, Commissary, use of Morale Welfare And Recreation facilities, life insurance at reduced rates, and low-cost health and dental insurance. The Air Guard also offers a stipend program to certain health professionals completing their residency. Plus, there are additional benefits exclusive to health professionals crossing over from the civilian medical profession. You may also be eligible for the Montgomery G.I. Bill benefits, such as a monthly stipend to offset the cost of attending college full time, a monthly educational kicker for full-time college enrollment, the student loan repayment program, and an enlistment bonus. In addition to the federal benefits listed above, each state may offer additional benefits for their members. Doctors Doctors Air Guard doctors are needed in a variety of careers, including surgeons, pediatricians, and emergency physicians. Open Tab Button Doctors There are a variety of positions in the Air Guard that doctors can fill. You’ll find the same careers that you’ll find in the civilian world – family care physician, orthopedic surgeon, pediatrician – but you’ll have the opportunity to take your practice to new heights – as a flight surgeon, aerospace medicine physician, or emergency services physician. Here are just a few of the general tasks of an Air Guard doctor: Manages primary care services Examines, diagnoses, and treats diseases and injuries Prepares and reviews case histories and obtains data through interviews Assembles and evacuates sick and wounded personnel Examines patients and determines x-ray examinations and clinical laboratory tests required Interprets test results and evaluates examination findings Conducts ward rounds and prescribes therapy. Administers and prescribes such conservative measures of treatment as antibiotics, drugs, and compresses Performs minor surgical procedures Determines need for and assists in specialized medical care and treatment May be granted additional privileges and responsibilities based on documented advanced proficiency Nurses Nurses Air Guard nurses are needed in a variety of careers, including critical care, operating room nurse, and a member of a medical air rescue team. Open Tab Button Nurses There are a variety of positions in the Air Guard that nurses can fill. You’ll find the same careers that you’ll find in the civilian world – critical care nurse, operating room nurse, nurse anesthetist – but you’ll have the opportunity to take your practice to new heights as a flight nurse or a member of a medical air rescue team. Here are just a few of the general tasks of an Air Guard nurse: Assesses health and needs of individuals and populations Collects, records, and analyzes patient or population health data from preventive health assessments, health evaluation and risk appraisals, nursing history, health screening, and other sources Uses data to determine nursing needs of individual patients and populations, including abnormal physiological findings, risk factors, and nursing diagnoses Plans comprehensive care that delineates interventions to attain expected outcomes. Collaborates with other disciplines Ensures nursing actions are designed to promote, maintain, and restore patient or population optimum well-being. Incorporates teaching and learning activities into care plan Applies scientific knowledge to treat human responses to actual or potential health problems Conducts group and individual health teaching for patients, families, and community Monitors and records patient and population health status Evaluates patient or population progress to attain expected outcomes Uses ongoing assessment data to revise diagnoses, outcomes, and nursing care plans Other Health Professionals Other Health Professionals There are a variety of critical medical career opportunities in the Air Guard. Open Tab Button Other Health Professionals There are a variety of medical careers in the Air Guard that are a critical part of the Air Guard’s medical mission. You’ll have the opportunity to take your career to new heights in any of the following positions: Anesthesiologist Critical Care Nurse Dentist Emergency Medicine Family Practice Flight Nurse Flight Surgeon General Surgeon Internal Medicine Nurse Anesthetist Operating Room Nurse Ophthalmologist Orthopedic Surgeon Whether you’re a vital member of a medical air rescue team or serving Air Guard members part-time at your unit, you’ll be an important part of the Air Guard, treating those who sacrifice the most for our nation. As a health professional in the Air Guard, you’ll get experience that you can’t find anywhere else. Plus you’ll get military benefits, such as low-cost life insurance and health care. The skills you learn in the Air Guard are transferable to the civilian medical field as well. And you’ll be serving your country and your community part-time in a unit close to where you live or work.	VIDEO CAREER FINDER BENEFITS Runtime 1.00 State Role Public Health Applies preventive and public health knowledge, techniques, and skills to promote health and to reduce the incidence of communicable diseases, occupational illnesses, food borne diseases, and disease and nonbattle injuries while in garrison as well as in field conditions. Promotes the public health through epidemiological surveillance of health and disease trends in populations, as well as monitoring food safety practices, and sanitation levels in public and food service facilities. View Career Details Physician Assistant Performs primary medical care and clinical duties with the direction of a physician. View Career Details Residency Trained Flight Surgeon Administers the aerospace medicine program; conducts medical examinations and provides medical care for flyers, missile crews, and others with special standards of medical qualification and their families. Evaluates living and working environments to detect and control health hazards and prevent disease and injury within the Air Force community. View Career Details Aerospace Medicine Specialist Develops and administers the aerospace medicine program; supervises, conducts medical examinations, and provides medical care for flyers, missile crews, and others with special standards of medical qualification. Directs evaluations of living and working environments within the Air Force community to detect and control health hazards and prevent disease and injury. View Career Details Bioenvironmental Engineering Performs and manages occupational and environmental health (OEH)-related activities to support delivery of Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) and BE capabilities. View Career Details Orthopedic Surgeon Examines, diagnoses, and treats diseases and injuries of musculoskeletal system by surgical and conservative means. Manages orthopedic surgery services. View Career Details Health Services Administrator Manages health services activities, including plans and operations, managed care, human resource management, logistics management, patient administration, budgetary and fiscal management, medical manpower, medical facility management, biometrics, medical recruiting, and aeromedical evacuation. Directs the hospital accreditation program and management improvement studies. View Career Details Internist Diagnoses diseases and renders nonsurgical care; provides consultation in complex cases. Manages internal medicine services. View Career Details Clinical Nurse Includes clinical nurses, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners. Provides professional nursing care within scope of practice, established standards of care and federal and state laws. Acts as patient advocate and advances desired health outcomes through patientand family education. Coordinates with and makes recommendations to staff agencies concerning applicable policies, plans and programs. Participates in cross-functional collaboration to improve patient care delivery. View Career Details Dentist Examines, diagnoses, and treats diseases, abnormalities, injuries, and dysfunctional disorders of the oral cavity and its associated structures. Administers dental service policy, including establishing and maintaining dental health standards. View Career Details Surgeon Examines, diagnoses, and treats, by surgical and conservative means, diseases and injuries. Manages surgery services. View Career Details Bioenvironmental Engineer Applies engineering and scientific principles in identifying and evaluating occupational and environmental health (OEH) hazards and recommending controls to support risk management decisions to ensure Force Health Protection. View Career Details State Education Benefits Up to 100% tuition assistance. 50% tuition waived for all partner schools through graduate programs. 50% off tuition and related fees for undergraduate programs at partner schools. Tuition assistance for vo-tech courses at MD public colleges/univ and private institutions if the latter provides a 50% tuition waiver. Group Insurance $1,000 at no cost.$10,000 for $3.66 /mo; $15,000 for $5.33/mo; $20,000 for$7/ mo; $25,000 for $8.67/ mo; $30,000 for $10.34/ mo; $50,000 for$17.01/ mo Family plan: $5,000 for $3.33/mo(spouse/child); spouse only: $5,000 for $2/mo; $10,000 for $3.66/ mo; $25,000 for $8.67/mo Injury Death Benefits State Active Duty: Workers' Comp. If guardmember killed while on Active Duty or Title 32 duty, $100,000 death benefit to family if not eliG.I.ble for DIC. Medical Benefits State Active Duty: Workers' Comp. Miscellaneous Exempt from arrest while going to/from or on active duty. Free passage through tollgates, roads to/from duty. Exempt from jury duty. Distinctive auto plates. Interest-free emergency loans through relief funds. Reimbursement None State Tax Advantage None Workers Compensation State Active Duty

Why Air Guard?

Health Professionals have the unique opportunity to provide humanitarian aid to communities, while tapping into the career growth and adventure that the Air Guard provides.

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Why Air Guard?

Are you looking for unique challenges, adventure and career growth? As a health professional in the Air Guard, you could provide in-flight care to sick or injured patients being airlifted out of a disaster-stricken area. You could be responsible for saving countless lives in a field hospital in the aftermath of a hurricane, flood, fire, or tornado. You could assemble triages and help to evacuate individuals in the most challenging of circumstances.

Whether you’re currently in school, just starting in medicine, or well-established in your career, you could do all this—and more—serving part-time in the Air Guard. You’ll be a vital member of our exceptional medical team. You’ll work with high-tech equipment and utilize state-of-the-art treatments. And you’ll have the opportunity to help others—from treating fellow Airmen to helping people as part of a humanitarian mission.

The Air Guard offers many federal benefits/entitlements to their unit members and their families such as the Base Exchange, Commissary, use of Morale Welfare And Recreation facilities, life insurance at reduced rates, and low-cost health and dental insurance. The Air Guard also offers a stipend program to certain health professionals completing their residency. Plus, there are additional benefits exclusive to health professionals crossing over from the civilian medical profession.

You may also be eligible for the Montgomery G.I. Bill benefits, such as a monthly stipend to offset the cost of attending college full time, a monthly educational kicker for full-time college enrollment, the student loan repayment program, and an enlistment bonus.

In addition to the federal benefits listed above, each state may offer additional benefits for their members.

Doctors

Doctors

Air Guard doctors are needed in a variety of careers, including surgeons, pediatricians, and emergency physicians.

Open Tab Button

Doctors

There are a variety of positions in the Air Guard that doctors can fill. You’ll find the same careers that you’ll find in the civilian world – family care physician, orthopedic surgeon, pediatrician – but you’ll have the opportunity to take your practice to new heights – as a flight surgeon, aerospace medicine physician, or emergency services physician. Here are just a few of the general tasks of an Air Guard doctor:

Manages primary care services
Examines, diagnoses, and treats diseases and injuries
Prepares and reviews case histories and obtains data through interviews
Assembles and evacuates sick and wounded personnel
Examines patients and determines x-ray examinations and clinical laboratory tests required
Interprets test results and evaluates examination findings
Conducts ward rounds and prescribes therapy. Administers and prescribes such conservative measures of treatment as antibiotics, drugs, and compresses
Performs minor surgical procedures
Determines need for and assists in specialized medical care and treatment
May be granted additional privileges and responsibilities based on documented advanced proficiency

Nurses

Air Guard nurses are needed in a variety of careers, including critical care, operating room nurse, and a member of a medical air rescue team.

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Nurses

There are a variety of positions in the Air Guard that nurses can fill. You’ll find the same careers that you’ll find in the civilian world – critical care nurse, operating room nurse, nurse anesthetist – but you’ll have the opportunity to take your practice to new heights as a flight nurse or a member of a medical air rescue team. Here are just a few of the general tasks of an Air Guard nurse:

Assesses health and needs of individuals and populations
Collects, records, and analyzes patient or population health data from preventive health assessments, health evaluation and risk appraisals, nursing history, health screening, and other sources
Uses data to determine nursing needs of individual patients and populations, including abnormal physiological findings, risk factors, and nursing diagnoses
Plans comprehensive care that delineates interventions to attain expected outcomes. Collaborates with other disciplines
Ensures nursing actions are designed to promote, maintain, and restore patient or population optimum well-being. Incorporates teaching and learning activities into care plan
Applies scientific knowledge to treat human responses to actual or potential health problems
Conducts group and individual health teaching for patients, families, and community
Monitors and records patient and population health status
Evaluates patient or population progress to attain expected outcomes
Uses ongoing assessment data to revise diagnoses, outcomes, and nursing care plans

Other Health Professionals

There are a variety of critical medical career opportunities in the Air Guard.

Open Tab Button

Other Health Professionals

There are a variety of medical careers in the Air Guard that are a critical part of the Air Guard’s medical mission. You’ll have the opportunity to take your career to new heights in any of the following positions:

Anesthesiologist
Critical Care Nurse
Dentist
Emergency Medicine
Family Practice
Flight Nurse
Flight Surgeon
General Surgeon
Internal Medicine
Nurse Anesthetist
Operating Room Nurse
Ophthalmologist
Orthopedic Surgeon

Whether you’re a vital member of a medical air rescue team or serving Air Guard members part-time at your unit, you’ll be an important part of the Air Guard, treating those who sacrifice the most for our nation. As a health professional in the Air Guard, you’ll get experience that you can’t find anywhere else. Plus you’ll get military benefits, such as low-cost life insurance and health care. The skills you learn in the Air Guard are transferable to the civilian medical field as well. And you’ll be serving your country and your community part-time in a unit close to where you live or work.

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Public Health

Applies preventive and public health knowledge, techniques, and skills to promote health and to reduce the incidence of communicable diseases, occupational illnesses, food borne diseases, and disease and nonbattle injuries while in garrison as well as in field conditions. Promotes the public health through epidemiological surveillance of health and disease trends in populations, as well as monitoring food safety practices, and sanitation levels in public and food service facilities.

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Physician Assistant

Performs primary medical care and clinical duties with the direction of a physician.

View Career Details

Residency Trained Flight Surgeon

Administers the aerospace medicine program; conducts medical examinations and provides medical care for flyers, missile crews, and others with special standards of medical qualification and their families. Evaluates living and working environments to detect and control health hazards and prevent disease and injury within the Air Force community.

View Career Details

Aerospace Medicine Specialist

Develops and administers the aerospace medicine program; supervises, conducts medical examinations, and provides medical care for flyers, missile crews, and others with special standards of medical qualification. Directs evaluations of living and working environments within the Air Force community to detect and control health hazards and prevent disease and injury.

View Career Details

Bioenvironmental Engineering

Performs and manages occupational and environmental health (OEH)-related activities to support delivery of Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) and BE capabilities.

View Career Details

Orthopedic Surgeon

Examines, diagnoses, and treats diseases and injuries of musculoskeletal system by surgical and conservative means. Manages orthopedic surgery services.

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Health Services Administrator

Manages health services activities, including plans and operations, managed care, human resource management, logistics management, patient administration, budgetary and fiscal management, medical manpower, medical facility management, biometrics, medical recruiting, and aeromedical evacuation. Directs the hospital accreditation program and management improvement studies.

View Career Details

Internist

Diagnoses diseases and renders nonsurgical care; provides consultation in complex cases. Manages internal medicine services.

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Clinical Nurse

Includes clinical nurses, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners. Provides professional nursing care within scope of practice, established standards of care and federal and state laws. Acts as patient advocate and advances desired health outcomes through patientand family education. Coordinates with and makes recommendations to staff agencies concerning applicable policies, plans and programs. Participates in cross-functional collaboration to improve patient care delivery.

View Career Details

Dentist

Examines, diagnoses, and treats diseases, abnormalities, injuries, and dysfunctional disorders of the oral cavity and its associated structures. Administers dental service policy, including establishing and maintaining dental health standards.

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Surgeon

Examines, diagnoses, and treats, by surgical and conservative means, diseases and injuries. Manages surgery services.

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Bioenvironmental Engineer

Applies engineering and scientific principles in identifying and evaluating occupational and environmental health (OEH) hazards and recommending controls to support risk management decisions to ensure Force Health Protection.

View Career Details

State

Education Benefits

Up to 100% tuition assistance. 50% tuition waived for all partner schools through graduate programs. 50% off tuition and related fees for undergraduate programs at partner schools. Tuition assistance for vo-tech courses at MD public colleges/univ and private institutions if the latter provides a 50% tuition waiver.

Group Insurance

$1,000 at no cost.$10,000 for $3.66 /mo; $15,000 for $5.33/mo; $20,000 for$7/ mo; $25,000 for $8.67/ mo; $30,000 for $10.34/ mo; $50,000 for$17.01/ mo Family plan: $5,000 for $3.33/mo(spouse/child); spouse only: $5,000 for $2/mo; $10,000 for $3.66/ mo; $25,000 for $8.67/mo

Injury Death Benefits

State Active Duty: Workers' Comp. If guardmember killed while on Active Duty or Title 32 duty, $100,000 death benefit to family if not eliG.I.ble for DIC.

Medical Benefits

State Active Duty: Workers' Comp.

Miscellaneous

Exempt from arrest while going to/from or on active duty. Free passage through tollgates, roads to/from duty. Exempt from jury duty. Distinctive auto plates. Interest-free emergency loans through relief funds.

Reimbursement

None

State Tax Advantage

None

Workers Compensation

State Active Duty