RCMSA Coin

RCMSA Commemorative Coin

The RCMSA Commemorative Coin was designed to honour all members of Canada’s military medical services, past and present, for their contribution to the Canadian Armed Forces and their service to Canada. This magnificent coin can be yours for a minimum $20.00 donation

$20.00

Your donation goes to help support the activities of the Royal Canadian Medical Service Association.

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Stories from a Churchyard

It's always uplifting when you discover a good story in own churchyard and that yard being St Luke Cedar Hill in Victoria, BC. The story centers on two WWI CAMC Nursing Sister dubbed "The Heavenly Twins". Click here to learn more.

The UK Government has announced a major structural change within the British Army, with the amalgamation of three key healthcare corps into the newly established Royal Army Medical Service (RAMS). The change, part of the ongoing Future Soldier modernisation...

Today we celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Luke our Patron Saint ,the author of one of the four gospels in the New Testament (the one that includes the parable of the Good Samaritan). Identified in one of Saint Paul’s epistles as a physician, Luke is believed to have...

After what turned out to be a much more involved process then expected we’re please to finally launch a refreshed and technically updated website. We won’t guarantee everything is 100% but will assure you that as the need for edits are identified they will be...

2024 RCMSA Educational Bursary

The RCMSA Board of Directors is pleased to announce the three recipients of a 2024 RCMSA Educational Bursary

104 Year Old Medic

In February of 2020 RCMS CWO Lucie Alain asked if RCMSA would donate an RCMSA Commemorative Coin that she could present to a 104 year Canadian Medic Cpl (Ret'd) John Pauls during her visit to Winnipeg later in the month. On behalf of the Association CWO Alain was...

A Soldier’s Diary

16 July 2020 - Today we were witness to a historic moment for 2 Fd Amb, the Petawawa Garrison, and the Canadian Armed Forces. Units, formations and museums across the CAF are home to numerous historical documents from the First World War, but unique among them is The...

Field Medicine

LE TEXTE EN FRANÇAIS SUITE MEDICAL SPECIALIST GROWTH IN THE FIELD By Haifa Al-Aryan, Canadian Forces Health Services Group The Canadian Forces Health Services Group (CFHSG) is continuously making strides to optimize and modernize their ability to support...

Book Review

You may remember Alex Barris. He was a journalist (had the Barris Beat column for the Toronto Star) and he was a panel participant in the old TV series Front Page Challenge, as well as being an actor. Well, his son Ted Barris is also a journalist & has written a...

Canada’s Aviation Medicine Pioneers

Le texte en français suit That according to Peter Allen, a former commercial airline pilot who wrote a paper on the early years of Canadian aviation medicine for the Canadian Aviation Historical Society Journal (CAHS), much of the credit for getting Banting involved...