#ARMK2615362AUpdated medical fitness standards for French military health service personnel
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This order updates the medical fitness standards used to assess people entering or serving in France’s military health service. It sets aptitude profiles for officer students, non-officer students, other recruits, commissioned military staff, enlisted SSA personnel, and personnel being kept in service. The practical effect is on recruitment, retention, and deployment decisions. Candidates and serving personnel must meet medical, dental, vaccination, psychological, and operational fitness requirements, especially for overseas or external operations. Pregnancy, certain chronic or evolving conditions, dental care needs, addiction issues, or vaccine non-compliance can block deployment temporarily or permanently.
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Key Changes
- Updates the general medical fitness profiles for entry and continued service in the military health service
- Confirms that candidates must also be fit for external operations and missions outside metropolitan France
- Sets deployment-related medical checks covering chronic conditions, dental readiness, vaccination status, addiction risks, psychological stability, and pregnancy
Obligations
What this law requires
Candidates seeking engagement in the active army within the French military health service must hold both fitness for external operations (OPEX) and fitness for short-duration missions outside metropolitan France (MCD hors métropole).
Candidates seeking engagement in the French military health service must have a mastication coefficient of at least 30%, calculated taking any prostheses into account.
Candidates seeking engagement in the French military health service must have no contraindication to the legal and regulatory vaccinations listed in the vaccination schedule defined by the military health service.
Candidates enrolling in schools or training pathways leading to medical or paramedical professions must satisfy the legal vaccination obligations for hepatitis B.
Candidates seeking engagement in the French military health service must have no contraindication to military physical and sports training (EPMS).