Preventive Medicine
The Preventive Medicine Technician (PMT) course equips students with essential technical skills and knowledge to perform as Preventive Medicine Specialists or Technicians in both fixed medical treatment facilities and austere environments. This Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) resident course follows a consolidated training model in which Army and Navy students begin training together, before transitioning to service specific tracks, ensuring comprehensive foundational knowledge while meeting each service’s unique operational requirements.
The PMT course covers key preventive medicine disciplines including public health fundamentals, public health communication, food service sanitation, water quality assessment, medical threat evaluation, operational preventive medicine, entomology, and the Deployment Environmental Surveillance Program.
The Army emphasizes health physics, industrial hygiene, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) response, and field preventive medicine operations, culminating in a comprehensive field training exercise.
The Navy focuses on epidemiology, parasitology, medical readiness, occupational safety and health, microbiology, biostatistics, shipboard preventive medicine, and concludes with a Navy specific training exercise.
Training is delivered through lecture, demonstration, online materials, simulation, offsite practical exercises and hands-on laboratory practice with quality assurance and safety principles reinforced throughout. Graduates achieve entry-level technical proficiency required for public health service delivery and operational preventive medicine support across diverse environments.
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 US Air Force
AFSC: N/A
 US Army
MOS: Preventive Medicine Specialist
Course Length:
640 hours / 16 weeks, 1 day
Iterations per year: 6
 US Navy
NEC: Preventive Medicine Technician
Course Length:
992 hours / 24 weeks, 4 days
Iterations per year: 6
School Code 083
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