From RN website:
Medical Assistant (General Service)
MedicalBasic training at HMS Raleigh
Your career begins with nine-weeks’ basic training at HMS Raleigh – a shore base near Plymouth. You’ll learn crucial skills like discipline, teamwork, firefighting and weapons handling. You’ll need to be generally fit and able to swim before you arrive.
Professional training
After two months at the HMS Sultan in Gosport, you’ll progress to the Defence Medical Services Training Centre in Aldershot where you will spend 20 weeks studying first aid, environmental and preventative medicine, anatomy and physiology, administration and pharmacy.
When you finish, you’ll be awarded the distinctive Red Geneva Cross. After gaining practical experience in various hospital departments with ill and traumatised patients, you’ll sit your final exam to become a Medical Assistant. You’ll then be posted to a ship or Naval Medical Centre in the UK.
Rolop - more adventure for us anway! Have you got a date for Raleigh yet?
Jen