"potentially mean[] a medical specialty, specifically a branch of occupational medicine attending to the medical risks and needs (both preventive and interventional) of soldiers, sailors and other service members."
This topic covers different medical technologies and practices used by the military to provide care for soldiers, including trauma care and emergency medicine.
"This disparate arena has historically involved the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases (especially tropical diseases)."
"Undersea and aviation medicine can be understood as subspecialties of military medicine, or in any case originated as such."
"The planning and practice of the surgical management of mass battlefield casualties and the logistical and administrative considerations of establishing and operating combat support hospitals."
"Military medical hierarchies, especially the organization of structured medical command and administrative systems that interact with and support deployed combat units."
"The administration and practice of health care for military service members and their dependents in non-deployed (peacetime) settings."
"Few countries certify or recognize 'military medicine' as a formal specialty or subspecialty in its own right."
"Medical research and development specifically bear upon problems of military medical interest."
"vaccines or drugs for soldiers, medical evacuation systems, drinking water chlorination, etc."
"many of which ultimately prove important beyond the purely military considerations that inspired them."