The Medical Reserve Corps

Given their broad range of community activities, MRC units recruit volunteers with varied backgrounds, including practicing and retired physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, veterinarians, mental health professionals, paramedics, and epidemiologists (18,19). Nonmedical volunteers, such as interpreters, chaplains, office workers, legal advisors, and others offer support services. 

MRC volunteers also get opportunities to participate in exercises, such as working in point of dispensing (PODs) sites as part of a strategic national stockpile exercise. 

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Describe federal resources where nurses might volunteer, including the National Disaster Medical System, Medical Reserve Corps, and U.S. Public Flealth Service and its Federal Medical Shelters. 

United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General. Medical Reserve Corps Resource Site. http //www.medicalreservecorps.gov/page.cfm7pageID = 5 (last accessed 3-26-06)... 

Haber knew the likely reason for his failure. He d knocked at the door of a social bastion where his sort weren t welcome. At that time, no Prussian Jew had ever become a reserve officer, except in the medical corps. The rejection was a powerful reminder, if Haber needed any, that his heritage was a social handicap and that his father s cautions were grounded in reality. 

From 1950 to 1954, he was a staff member at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and was in private practice in Chicago. After two years of active duty in the Medical Corps of the Naval Reserve, Dr. Szasz in 1956 joined the faculty of the Upstate Medical Center of the State University of New York at Syracuse as Professor of Psychiatry. He has also been a Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin and at Marquette University and has lectured widely in colleges, law schools, medical schools, and to lay groups. 

Figure 51-6 Biosynthesis of corticosteroids. Roman numerals I (side-chain cleavage enzyme), II (3-p-ol dehydrogenase and/or A" isomerase), III (21-hydroxylase), and IV (lip-hydroxyiase) indicate sites of major blocks that cause adrenogenital syndromes. (Copyright 1959 CIBA Pharmaceutical Co. Division of CIBA-GEIGY Corp. Reproduced, with permission, from The CiBA Collection of Medical Illustrations by Netter FH.AII rights reserved.)...

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