The Physician Utilization Field covers the functions of program formulation, policy planning, direction, and professional participation pertinent to maintenance and improvement of health standards. Included in this field are immediate supervisory and technical responsibilities for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of physical and mental diseases, disorders, and injuries, involving clinical application of, and research in, such specialized fields of medicine as dermatology, aerospace medicine, psychiatry, radiology, pediatrics, gastroenterology, other phases of surgery, and preventive medicine. This field also includes responsibilities for the development of plans and procedures covering the medical aspects of defense against nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare. Officers in this field command medical installations, units, or activities as stated in AFI 51-604, Appointment to, and Assumption of, Command.
Excluded from this utilization field are those functions necessary to support or supplement professional medical care and treatment of patients and which do not require the degree of Doctor of Medicine. These are included in the Dental, Veterinary, Biomedical Sciences, Nurse and Health Services Management Utilization Fields.
Medical officers, immediately upon entering Air Force sponsored residencies, will be awarded the appropriate AFSC for the specialized field of medicine in which they are training.
All other medical officers who have had professional practice or have received intensive formal training in one of the specialized fields of medicine will be assigned the appropriate AFSC on attaining the standards established for that AFSC.
Special Experience Identifiers for the Physician Utilization Field will be designated only after approval of Headquarters Air
Force Military Personnel Center, Surgeon. The following is a complete listing of AFSCs for the Physician Utilization Field.
