Army Medical DepartmentOfficer Development and Career Management

SAFMLS 2008

Colonel William Boisvert

Objectives

Workshop participants will be able to:1) Identify the five phases of officer development IAW DA

PAM 600-42) Define competencies and actions common to all 71

series for current operations3) Discuss competencies and actions unique to 71E AOC

for current operations4) Identify civilian and military educational opportunities

offered over the next 3 years5) Create a self action plan for career development in

assignments and education IAW DA PAM 600-4 Life Cycle Model

Department of the ArmyPamphlet 600–4

Personnel–General

Army Medical DepartmentOfficer Development and Career Management

HeadquartersDepartment of the Army

Washington, DC27 June 2007

UNCLASSIFIED

Officer Development

DA PAM 600-4, Chapter 10, Medical Service Corps

• Medical Service Corps Health Sciences (MFA 71, 72, 73 and AOCs 67E, 67F, and 67G)

• Officership basics• Leader Development & Career Management• Immaterial positions• Life cycle model

Officership Basics

• Tactical and technical proficiency (focus of company grade years)

• Physically fit

• Highest ethical and moral character

• Effective statesman, communicator, and leader

• Capable of building teams

Leader Development &Career Management

• Education (military and civilian)• Operational assignments (diversify using

TDA/TOE, CONUS/OCONUS, Ldr/Staff/Cmd, Clin/Non-Clin/Imm, MEDDAC/MEDCEN, FORSCOM/TRADOC, etc)

• Self-development (military, civilian, AMEDD, non-AMEDD)

• Commitment to lifelong learning• National certification (MT/CLS); add to ORB

Immaterial Positions

• Labeled as 67B

• Exist at field grade levels (MAJ and above)

• Any 71 series officer can compete for 67B assignment

• Examples

Five Phases of Professional Development

• Each phase has its own particular job assignments and schooling appropriate to each phase

• Phase 1 - LT

• Phase 2 - CPT

• Phase 3 - MAJ

• Phase 4 - LTC

• Phase 5 - COL

Life Cycle Model, MSC

Life Cycle Model, 71E

Officer Development

Education

Assignments

Self-Development