摘要:Military medicine is one of the most diverse fields of medicine and diving medicine forms an integral part.Diving medicine in fact grew out of concerns for military divers and till today the primary training and research involve military diving.Today,diving medicine training is faced with numerous challenges,right from lack of understanding and exposure of undergraduates to diving medicine,to a lack of awareness in the mainstream medicine fraternity.This paper is intended to deal with some current challenges facing the specialty and offers certain solutions.The solutions would mostly involve cooperation and collaboration of international agencies,organizations,and various countries to make a joint effort to resolve these challenges and take the field of military diving medicine forward.