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Welcome to the official website of Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Annapolis!

At NMRTC Annapolis, our mission is to provide a medically ready force – certifying the warfighters that we care for are ready to fight tonight supported by a ready, well-trained medical force. As the former Surgeon General stated, we “provide well-trained People, working as expeditionary medical experts on optimized Platforms operating as cohesive teams demonstrating high reliability Performance to project Medical Power in support of Naval Superiority”. While we are not an operational or expeditionary unit, we are a platform prepared to support expeditionary medicine at any time – and we must ensure our readiness as medical personnel to respond to that call.

Since 1845, NHC Annapolis has been committed to exemplifying the best of Navy Medicine though innovation, quality care, technology, talent management, and leadership. NHC Annapolis provides health support in six locations across three states. At its core is the care and commissioning readiness of the more than 4,400 members of the Brigade of Midshipmen. NHC Annapolis providers contribute to athlete development on and off the field, and support the Naval Academy as team physicians for 33 varsity sports teams and 26 club sports.

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260113-N-IX644-1003 (Jan. 13, 2026) FALLS CHURCH, Va. U.S. Navy Master Chief Religious Program Specialist Christopher Johnson, assigned to U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, poses for an environmental portrait in his office, Jan. 13. The Navy Medicine Enterprise's 44,000+ talented and ready forces optimize health readiness, deliver quality healthcare, and provide global expeditionary medical support to warfighters. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sasha Ambrose)

Exceed the expected: Religious Program Specialists celebrate 47 years of service

| Jan. 14, 2026

For 47 years, the U.S. Navy’s Religious Program Specialist (RP) rating has carried on a legacy of service that stretches back to the start of the Chaplain Corps 250 years ago. Numbering about 750 Sailors, these specialists...

U.S. Navy hospital corpsman uses a tablet-based Traumatic Brain Injury assessment application during an end-user touchpoint hosted by the Operational Medical Systems Program Management Office, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Jan. 14, 2026. The touchpoint at NMCCL is one in a series of planned engagements with prospective end users to help the OPMED Warfighter Readiness, Performance and Brain Health project management office refine the development of field-portable TBI detection devices designed for use in austere, remote locations across the globe. OPMED, part of the Defense Health Agency, partners with stakeholders across the Joint Force to develop, acquire, and field medical devices, treatments, and frontline care solutions for military medical providers to fill capability gaps with the speed of relevance. (Defense Health Agency photo by T. T. Parish/Released)

Future TBI Field Assessment tools in focus during end-user touchpoint at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune

| Jan. 14, 2026

Team members with the Operational Medical Systems Program Management Office joined dozens of U.S. Navy corpsmen and medical officers at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, this week as part of an end-user...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. A photo collage featuring Rear Adm. Anthony LaCourse at different stages of his Navy journey from attending field medical training as a hospital corpsman in 1989 (left) to serving as the Marine Corps Central Command Force Surgeon (right) to getting promoted to 1-star flag rank aboard USS Constitution on October 1, 2025 with his family by his side (center). Photographs courtesy of Rear Adm. Anthony LaCourse.

Sailor, Clinician, Leader, and Woodworker: The Journey of Rear Adm. Anthony LaCourse

| Jan. 14, 2026

In the quiet, early hours of a Saturday morning in East Taunton, Massachusetts, the rhythmic sound of a chisel meeting grain fills a backyard workshop. The workspace is a blend of the ancient and the modern. Traditional hand...

Annandale native joins Navy Medicine

| Jan. 13, 2026

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Genevieve Landers, a native of Annandale, Virginia, serves as a program support specialist at the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED).Landers graduated from W.T. Woodson High School (now...

NMFDC Launches Free, Online Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Course for DoN Personnel

| Jan. 13, 2026

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Naval Medical Forces Development Command (NMFDC) launched a new, fully online and asynchronous Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Black Belt certification course, now open for enrollment to...

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