Clinton E. Adams graduated from Baldwin Wallace College with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry.
[citation needed] He completed his medical internship at Undersea Medicine in Groton, Connecticut.
He completed a family medicine residency training at Naval Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina.
[7] In 2005, Adams became dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific (COMP) at Western University of Health Sciences.
The Rear Admiral Clinton E. Adams, DO Endowed Scholarship awards money to military veterans who attend the school.