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The USPHS Commissioned Corps is committed to our mission to protect, promote, and advance the health and safety of the nation. Public Health Service officers are trained and equipped to provide crucial public health leadership, assist with policy development, advance innovation and science, provide essential care services and respond to national and global public health emergencies. Through our Active Duty Regular Corps, our Public Health Response Strike Team (PHERST) and our Ready Reserve Corps, we remain responsive and available to rapidly deploy in the service of health.
Starting Monday, August 10th at 4:00 a.m. ET, document uploads using the "eDOC-U (Document Upload)" will be unavailable. All other functionalities will continue including staff and liaison document review. The upgrade is scheduled to be completed by Sunday, August 16 at 5:00 p.m. ET. Thank you for your patience.
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Promotion Information
Commissioned Officer's Effectiveness Report (COER)
Overview:
The Commissioned Officers’ Effectiveness Report (COER) is the uniform appraisal form used for documenting the performance of an officer’s assignments, duties and proficiencies. COERs are used by promotion boards to evaluate and score Precept 1, "Performance and Mission Contribution". Board members will have access to both Annual and Interim COERs from the last 5 years as well as any rebuttals and rebuttal responses associated with those COERs.
Administrative Checks:
Officers will be removed from the promotion success list and receive a failure of promotion if their most recent COER is marginal or unsatisfactory or required Annual COER from the past 5 years is missing from their electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF) (e.g., for PY 2027 an officer must have an Annual COER for 2022 through 2026).
It is the officer's responsibility to ensure that all required COERs are visible prior to verifying their promotion folder. If your promotion folder is verified prior to the COER displaying in your eOPF and/or promotion folder, the board members will not be able to view the document during their board review.
General Guidance:
- Officers are encouraged to access their latest 5 years of COERs in the eOPF and review each page to ensure that the document has been satisfactorily archived
- Encourage your rater to provide detailed examples and/or comments with each performance attribute
- Examples and/or comments should include an impact statement and data to justify the score
- Comments with each performance element are generally more meaningful than scores to promotion boards
Further information on the COER can be found on the COER webpage.
Last Updated: 5/15/2026
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COMMISSIONED CORPS NEWS
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Practice Hours Opportunities
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Changes in Tattoo Policy in CCI 412.01, Uniforms and Appearance
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Surgeon General Priorities
Surgeon General Priorities
January 2021: United States Public Health Commissioned Corps Doctrine
The link above will take you to the Noncompetitive Promotion Roster for Promotion Year 2020.
FAQs Practice Hours and Special Pay Changes
This is first in a series of FAQs, more FAQs will be forthcoming on Practice Hours and Special Pays.
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