Medical support of modern battlefield needs high-quality human resources. As an important part of military medical support, the training and utilization of medical officers directly affects the comprehensive strength of military medical support. The US Army attaches great importance to the training and utilization of medical officers. After several rounds of reforms, the professionalism path of medical officers has been basically established and completed, which has certain reference value for the training and utilization of medical officers under the background of military officer professionalism of our army. In this paper, the status quo of the training and utilization mode of medical officers in the US Army is briefly summarized from 3 aspects:the categories and professional division of medical officers, career growth path, and dynamic deployment in peacetime and wartime; and the status quo of the training and utilization of medical officers of our army is comparatively summarized. Finally, considering the reform of medical service system and mechanism under the new situation, we put forward suggestions on the training and utilization of medical officers in the PLA from 3 aspects:clarifying the responsibility of medical officers, facilitating their career planning, and standardizing the utilization and deployment of medical officers.