Welcome to the Medic Merit Badge guide for Fallout 76! For advanced players, this isn’t the most difficult merit badge, but certainly it’s the most challenging of the Tadpole badges, so we certainly don’t recommend this as one of your initial three to unlock the Possum rank or your backpack. Before we get into tips and suggestions, here are the requirements for the merit badge.

Pass “Medic” knowledge exam at an exam terminal
Craft Antibiotics (x/3)
Craft Disease Cures (x/3)
Craft Healing Salve (x/3)
Use a Stimpak: Diluted (x/3)
Use a Stimpak (x/3)
Use a Stimpak: Super (x/3)
Use a Stimpak Diffuser (x/3)

If you’re looking for the questions and answers for the knowledge exam, we’ll have those in an expandable box down below. The next three requirements call for crafting various healing items, and you can get the recipes simply through progressing through the story or buying them from the Enclave medical wing (or player vendors). Occasionally you can get some of them from event rewards and such, but that’s kind of a gamble.

The last four requirements require you to use (but not necessarily craft) various types of stimpaks. The first three can be found around the world, as quest/event rewards, or in player vendors, but the Stimpak Diffuser can only be crafted by someone who obtained the plan from the Project Paradise event at Arktos Pharma. Even with the new lobby notifications, this event still is rather challenging and poorly attended, so you’d have to either gather a competent group of friends together, get a crew via Facebook or Reddit, or buy a recipe from someone who managed to obtain an extra (hopefully not duped). If you don’t want to run the event, you can simply buy the diffusers from someone who has crafted a few extra.

Medic Questions and Answers

Alfonso is earning spending money by working in the Garrahan coal mines after school. His father Ricardo is a mine worker, and is always coughing and wheezing. What condition is Alfonso risking by working in the mines?: Black lung
Believe it or not, blood cells come in several different colors! Which of these is a type of blood cell?: White
Brendan is at the firing range when Samuel accidentally clips him with a live round from his shotgun! He’s lost a lot of blood. What will you do to restore it?: Hook up a blood pack intravenously
Hannah is afraid of fireworks. At last year’s Fourth of July celebration, a faulty firework exploded right behind her! Now loud sounds make her jump and shiver. What do you call this condition?: Shell Shock
Mary works at the steel mill after school. One day, a heavy piece of equipment falls and makes a big gash on her thigh! Which of these muscles did she just injure?: Rectus femoris
Samuel drank some icky water from a pond on a hiking trip. Now he’s feeling awful! He has diarrhea, stomach pains, and fluid loss. Which disease might Samuel have contracted?: Dysentery
Susie is playing in her tree house. She loses her balance and falls to the ground, breaking the bone in her upper arm, below her shoulder. Which bone did Susie break?: Humerus
Susie’s grandmother is comatose on life support. As her physician, her fate is in your hands. What is the ethical decision?: Let her family decide
The day has come and the bombs have fallen. Where do you go to stay safe from the radiation?: My designated Vault-Tec vault
The other scouts are excited for your field trip to the Poseidon Energy Plant, but you’re worried about the effects of radiation. What do you do?: Stop worrying, as nuclear power is 100% safe and effective
We use the rod of a mythical figure as the symbol of the medical profession. Which figure?: Asclepius
Which of the following is NOT a symptom of radiation sickness?: Hydrophobia
Which of the following is NOT a type of cancer?: Hemophilia
Which of the following is NOT a type of physician?: Astrologist
While rock climbing on a scout trip, you lose your grip and take a tumble, injuring your arm. You decide to apply a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. Where do you tie the tourniquet?: A few inches above the wound
You and Richard are mountain biking when he hits a rock and tumbles into a tree, breaking his leg! What tool do you use to hold the bone in place until help arrives?: A splint
You come across a hopeless chem addict while doing good deeds around town. The addict begs you for money or chems. How do you respond?: Treat her with Addictol
You’re helping Mr. Hannock cross the street when he doubles over clutching his chest! This is a symptom of which of the following?: Heart attack
You’re preparing for a hiking trip and want to make some healing salves in case of injury. Which of these could you use as an ingredient?: Bloodleaf
You’re the on-duty medic at the archery range. Ricky goes out to retrieve his arrow during live fire and is shot through the knee! What do you do?: Call an ambulance!