The members of Royal Australian Army Medical Corps contribute to the Army's operational capability through the conservation of manpower. The conservation of manpower is achieved through:

• The provision of advice designed to promote health wellbeing and the prevention disease and injury.
• The care, treatment and evacuation of sick and wounded.

Members of the RAAMC are employed throughout all levels of Army and provide deployable health service in support of operations. RAAMC personnel are integral to the continuum of health care provided to Army personnel.

Other Ranks. The term other ranks may be used in a variety of situations.
Officers and Other Ranks. In this context the term refers to all personnel other than commissioned officers (ie. warrant officers, both senior and junior non-commissioned officers and soldiers of private, or equivalent, rank).
Officers, Warrant Officers, Senior NCOs and Other Ranks. In this context the term refers to the junior non-commissioned officers and soldiers of private, or equivalent, rank.
Officers, Warrant Officers, NCOs and Other Ranks. Here the term refers to the soldiers of private, or equivalent, rank only.
Rank and File. This refers to all the soldiers who are formed-up on parade in the ranks (usually the private soldiers and the junior non-commissioned officers) and the warrant officers and senior non-commissioned officers who form-up in files to the flanks of the ranks, or in a separate supernumerary rank (serrefile) behind the main ranks of soldiers. Officers form-up in front of the rank and file.