Medical Assistant (Royal Navy)

The Medical Assistant is a Royal Navy medical rating. Medical Assistants serve on all types of ship in the surface and submarine fleet, or ashore in a sick bay, hospital, or other establishment. The equivalent rate in the United States Navy is Hospital Corpsman.

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The Medical Assistant was previously known as Sick Berth Attendant (19th-20th Century) and earlier as Loblolly Boy (18th–19th Century).

Basic training (8-weeks) is conducted at HMS Raleigh shore establishment in Torpoint, Cornwall. Medical training (20-weeks) is conducted at the Defence Medical Services Training Centre at Keogh Barracks in Aldershot.

Medical Assistants who volunteer for service with the Royal Marines must pass the All Arms Commando Course (7-weeks) held at the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines (CTCRM) in Lympstone, Devon.

See also

• Hospital Corpsman
• Medical assistant