The Defence Medical Academy is based at DMS Whittington.

The organization was formed as the Defence Medical Services Training Centre from the medical training centres for the three services[a] at Keogh Barracks in 1996[1] and was initially subordinate to the Defence Medical Training Organisation.

[2] It became subordinate to the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine in 2008[3] and moved to Whittington Barracks as the Defence College of Healthcare Education and Training in 2014.

[4] It was renamed the Defence Medical Academy in September 2019.

It trains the: The Museum of Military Medicine is still based at Keogh Barracks.