File:Naval Hospital Great Lakes, Illinois (IA NavalHospitalGreatLakesIllinois1969).pdf

Internship recruiting booklet.

"The Great Lakes Naval Hospital is the Tri-Service General Hospital for the entire Midwest, furnishing medical care for Navy, Army, and Air Force active duty and retired personnel and their dependents. The mission of the hospital is to not only give the finest medical care to these patients, but to train doctors, nurses, administrative officers, corpsmen, and corpswaves, for duty with the Fleet and the medical and dental activities throughout the world. This is one of our major training hospitals and carries out this teaching and training so that our serviceman and his family will have the finest medical care and support in the world. To this end, the hospital is staffed with outstanding specialists in all fields of medicine, dentistry, nursing and  administration. Patient care in the hospital and out-patient clinic is their primary responsibility. The maintenance of the finest intern and resident physician training supports chis primary mission as does the intensive and specialized training of nurses, corpsmen, and corpswaves. Thus, at Great Lakes, this is a University-type Navy Hospital for patient care and training to support the Navy and its operating fleet. The Commanding Officer of the hospital is a flag rank officer who also commands the Naval Hospital Corps School, Great Lakes, and as District Medical Officer is responsible for the coordination of all medical activities in the thirteen-state Ninth Naval District."

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