Medical Reserve Corps
 Volunteers Building Strong, Healthy, and Prepared Communities The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) is a community-based, civilian volunteer program that helps build the public health infrastructure of communities nationwide. Each MRC unit is organized and trained to address a wide range of challenges from public health education to disaster response. Stay up-to-date with MRC unit activities nationwide by reading MRC In Touch and MRC In Focus. MRC In Focus is a resource to help link MRC units, partners, and communities and serves as a conduit for information about what the MRC is doing at the national, regional, state, and local levels. Each issue features stories about MRC units and volunteer activities, updates from the Division of the Civilian Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps, resources, upcoming events, and training opportunities. MRC In Touch is designed as a complement to MRC In Focus. Each edition features unit activities, tips, announcements, and a calendar of events. All volunteers are eligible to sign up to receive the monthly e-newsletter via the MRC one-way and two-way ListServs. More » After the life-altering events of 9/11, the volunteer physicians recognized the need for an organized group of medical volunteers who would be trained and prepared to provide supplemental medical and public health support in response to emergency operations in New York City. The group submitted a proposal to the city, requesting that a cadre of trained medical volunteers be established; the proposal was alter expanded to suggest a nationwide group of volunteers be developed—a concept that eventually reached President George W. Bush and Congress. |
