Military

The Intensive Trauma and Surgical Skills Elective (ITSSC) is a full immersion, hyper-realistic and experiential learning training course. The course is designed to expose students to trauma, mass casualty, resource limited medicine and lifesaving surgical skills in a forward deployed military environment. This full immersion training provides hands-on experience in a variety of combat medicine scenarios under the tutelage of experienced active duty and retired military medicine providers. Student teams participate in triage, pre-operative assessment, stabilization, the performance of trauma surgery, and the transport of patients to higher echelons of care.   The course uses all the techniques of the theater, TV, and film industry to enhance live training. Realistic educational tactical exercises employ state-of-the-art Hollywood battlefield special effects, combat wound simulations, role players, subject matter experts, combat training coordinators, and training scenarios. The immersive environment provides critical training designed to meet the unique needs of students who will serve in the United States armed services as medical officers. Travel to the training site, meals, and lodging at the training site are included.

Military Medicine I will incorporate a series of didactic instruction for military officer training with an emphasis on the unique aspects of being a military medical officer. Medical Corps Officer military obligations, leadership, discipline, customs and courtesies, special military environments, field exercises, disaster stabilization, evacuation, triage, and management in combat environments on land, sea, and air are the foundation of the course. In addition, the course prepares students for their capstone experience of immersion-based experiential learning in a simulated operational environment.  This course will function in conjunction with COM enrichment pathway courses where synergies are evident and possible. Students may also have the opportunity to liaison with leaders, educators, and military officers at U.S. posts, bases, medical centers, hospitals, and other sites in order to achieve the goals and objectives of the program. Expert guests, military officers, and appropriate civilian physicians, and teachers will be hosted virtually and on campuses. 
 

A continuation of MIL 5041 Military Medicine I. 

A continuation of MIL 5042 Military Medicine II. 

Military Medicine Fundamentals – Service Cultures and Officer Basics serves as the first and foundational block in the Military Medicine Track, introducing participants to military culture and traditions, federal law governing the Department of Defense, and the Ethics and Laws of War. This course is part of the required Core Content for the Award of Military Medicine Concentration.