Navy HM1 Advancement Exam Practice Test: Hospital Corpsman E-6 Questions

397 practice questions for the HM E-6 advancement exam: heat and cold stress (WBGT, flag conditions, PHELs, heat illnesses, cold water survival, frostbite and hypothermia), field preventive medicine (water chlorination and testing, field food service, latrines, grease traps and garbage), field disease control and radiological controls, and shipboard pest management (cockroaches, stored products pests, rodents and rat guards, bed bugs, quarantine and free pratique, DD 1532 reporting, pesticide labels and PPE), and reportable medical events (DRSi, case classification, outbreaks, heat and cold injury reporting, rabies PEP), MEDIG command inspections, the customer relations program and patient rights, and medical readiness training and TCCC. We wrote every one from the public references on the March 2027 HM bibliography, and each answer links the page it comes from. Practice tests are 50 questions; aim for 35.

The real test: Your Navy-wide advancement exam is drawn from your rate's bibliography and comes back as a standard score that counts toward your final multiple; the Navy publishes no pass mark. Our practice test is 50 of our own questions with a 70% target.

Here: 397 questions. Our own practice questions, written from public references on the Navy HM bibliography (NAVMED P-5010-3, P-5010-9, P-5055, P-5052-26, the Armed Forces Reportable Medical Events guide, BUMEDINST 5040.2E and 6300.10C, and DoDI 1322.24 on the HM E-6 bibliography). Not Navy exam questions. Free.

What's on the test

10 sample questions

1. Every pesticide use during military operations (except skin and clothing repellents) is recorded and reported on:

   • A.NAVMED 6210/1
   • B.DD Form 1532
   • C.NAVMED 6210/3
   • D.DD Form 1222
   Show answer

   B. DD Form 1532

   HM6-1tozq · Health care administration · NAVMED P-5052-26 p. 46

2. The chain of transmission has four links. Which is one of them?

   • A.A portal of entry
   • B.An incubation period
   • C.A symptom
   • D.A treatment
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   A. A portal of entry

   HM6-10n4n · Communicable disease control · NAVMED P-5010-9 p. 43

3. In every war with records, military forces have lost more people to:

   • A.Accidents than to disease
   • B.Heat than to cold
   • C.Disease than to combat
   • D.Combat than to disease
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   C. Disease than to combat

   HM6-1cbo2 · Environmental health · NAVMED P-5010-9 p. 5

4. Medical readiness training (MRT) programs aim to maximize simulations, manikins, moulaged actors and cadavers while reducing reliance on:

   • A.Classroom lectures and slides
   • B.The live animal model
   • C.Online training
   • D.Field exercises
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   B. The live animal model

   HM6-1xf4p · Health maintenance (immunizations, PHA) · DoDI 1322.24 p. 10

5. Radiological controls aim to keep any exposure that is received:

   • A.Under the NRC limit only
   • B.Below 5 rem
   • C.At zero
   • D.ALARA
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   D. ALARA

   HM6-1o74a · Occupational safety and health · NAVMED P-5055 p. 101

6. Who must ensure the SMDR and the corpsmen responsible for pest control are certified in shipboard pest management?

   • A.The type commander's force surgeon
   • B.The supply officer
   • C.The cognizant NAVENPVNTMEDU
   • D.The commanding officer
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   D. The commanding officer

   HM6-1lv4i · Vector and pest control · NAVMED P-5052-26 p. 6

7. If an operational command used no pesticides in a month, it:

   • A.Sends a negative report by message
   • B.Still submits a DD Form 1532
   • C.Submits nothing that month
   • D.Notes it in the SAMS log only
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   B. Still submits a DD Form 1532

   HM6-1fsla · Health care administration · NAVMED P-5052-26 p. 46

8. The time before a deployment should be used mainly to:

   • A.Do TB testing for all hands
   • B.Catch up on immunizations and dental work
   • C.Review medical intelligence for the AO
   • D.Start hearing tests
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   C. Review medical intelligence for the AO

   HM6-1m7n3 · Communicable disease control · NAVMED P-5010-9 p. 43

9. Personnel in the field are at greater risk than in garrison partly because of:

   • A.Better rations and more regular meals
   • B.Fewer insects
   • C.Disrupted hygiene and sanitation
   • D.Shorter work days
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   C. Disrupted hygiene and sanitation

   HM6-hioit · Environmental health · NAVMED P-5010-9 p. 5

10. Service members and DoD expeditionary civilians assigned to an operational unit complete MRT requirements within:

    • A.12 months before deployment
    • B.24 months before deployment
    • C.6 months after arriving in theater
    • D.30 days before deployment
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    A. 12 months before deployment

    HM6-1i4co · Health maintenance (immunizations, PHA) · DoDI 1322.24 p. 8

What the study guide does

• Short study rounds and flip cards.
• A practice test built like the real one: 50 questions, 35 to pass.
• Pass Meter: your chance of passing if you sat the test today, worked out from your own answers.
• An explanation for every answer.