This manual is intended to encourage policy makers, administrators, and personnel officers in hospitals and other health facilities to recruit and hire the thousands of well-trained, experienced men and women who leave the military medical services each year. The document lists the advantages to the medical institution when employing medically trained veterans, characteristics of the medical veteran, processes of veteran utilization planning, methods of recruitment and preparation, assessments of the medical veteran's qualifications, referrals and placements, together with veteran's career development. These aspects of medical veteran employment are supplemented by the description of three medical veteran utilization programs at Johns Hopkins, Altoona (Pennsylvania), and Cook County Hospitals. Military medical checklists, comparison tables of civilian and military allied medical occupations, employment applications, and a 27-item annotated bibliography are included. (KP)