Central Medical Division

Introduction

The Central Medical Division, also known as the CMD, is the healthcare section of Central Command that prioritizes the health and safety for all Central Command employees and contracted workers. They primarily assist with monitoring outbreaks of health issues and ensuring that healthcare training is up-to-date at all times for everyone’s safety.

History

The Central Medical Division was established quite quickly upon Stellar Vanguard Solution’s conversion into Central Command, prioritizing the health and physical wellbeing of their contracted employees. Due to the existence of the PSO cloning facility, publicly the Medical Division was the primary users of it, to ensure cloned personnel are in good shape after untimely incidents. Notable medical professionals from various sectors were able to be hired into the Medical Division, along with Chief Medical Officers from stations if they had a long enough acceptable track record. The Central Medical Division acted as the support to ensure that both Central Command employees and contracted personnel remained in good physical health to better conduct their duties.

Responsibilities

The Central Medical Division’s roles and responsibilities are primarily to ensure that all station and site medical personnel have active and proper licenses to practice medicine, while also ensuring that Chief Medical Officers are given the best training possible to ensure that sickness and death do not become a problem for wherever they are assigned. At the same time, another core responsibility is the monitoring and managing large-scale medical outbreak of viruses and other similar nasty things. Typically such things are coordinated with the on-site Chief Medical Officer, but things can be kept private if it would better benefit the station’s mental well-being. The Medical Division also works alongside the Research Division to investigate new cures and new treatment options for various afflictions, though all methods used are certainly quite ethical.

Hierarchy

The ranking structure for the Central Medical Division follows a simple health-care based chain-of-command, with the junior ranks focusing on assisting the senior ranks but still having the talent to do things quite successfully on their own due to the medical background already in place.

• Clinical Assistant - Newly assigned CMD personnel. Assigned to a Senior Clinician for the purposes of training for on-the-job specifics within the Medical Division, though otherwise are perfectly competent medical professionals in their own right. Are directly involved as assistants in the event that they are actively needed to assist in a medical procedure.
• Senior Clinician - Standard healthcare personnel for the Medical Division. Work directly under Practitioners as aides, assisting them with paperwork and medical charting while also reading over medical reports that come in from the station to better relieve the workload on the higher ranks. Typically the ones who reply to medical faxes in the event of standard issues.
• Practitioner - A senior medical professional within the Medical Division. Fully capable both within a surgical suite as well as navigating charts and bureaucracy, they mainly review medical licenses for the standard medical personnel onboard various stations and sites of interest. They also directly assist Physicians during notable surgeries.
• Physician - A junior leadership role within the CMD. In the event of a critical surgery being needed for Central Command personnel, they would be the primary surgeon in most cases, having the experience and knowledge. They are also the ones who assist the most in training the Chief Medical Officers contracted by Central Command. Typically there is at least one per Central Command outpost or site.
• Medical Consultant - Senior leadership role within the Medical Division. Unless in the event of an emergency, no longer assist directly within surgeries or the medical portions of the Division. Now acting as oversight, ensure that health and safety standards are being met by not only station personnel but also by Central Command personnel.
• Medical Director - The Directorate of the Central Medical Division. Are completely in charge of the Division and ensure that the Division is able to work alongside other Divisions for collaborative efforts for the sake of progress and advancement. Is often seen within the Central Operations Council for the purpose of advising of information.