Operational Training
A different kind of healthcare training for a different kind of healthcare mission.
What It’s About?
Competency is context dependent. Healthcare outside of the traditional models of care presents unique challenges for the healthcare provider.
The mission of these operational training experiences is to educate, train and prepare each learner to effectively provide healthcare resources in operational settings in support of DoD missions.
It is our goal to become recognized as premier educational experiences for the development of military and civilian healthcare leaders prepared to operate in austere locations in support of military units around the world.
Terminal Competencies
At the completion of this program the learner will:
- Become familiarized with the unique physical and emotional requirements of austere environments and begin to form resiliency skills to perform in nontraditional healthcare settings.
- Be able to identify common environmental health concerns for personnel operating in the austere setting and describe the physiologic and pathologic implications for the patient (e.g. hypo/hyperthermia, fatigue, stress, water exposure, and malnourishment).
- Apply appropriate healthcare interventions in the austere setting.
- Develop the inter-professional skills required to successfully support operational missions with other healthcare disciplines and operational forces.
- Develop the skills required to successfully integrate a healthcare team within an operational unit.
For more information about these courses please contact:
Dr. Matthew Welder: [email protected]
Dive Medicine
US Army Special Forces Dive School, Key West FL
Course Description
This 10 day course is designed to introduce the learner to Dive and Marine Medicine as well as Water Rescue. The training includes didactic and practical exercises to enhance the learner’s ability to medically perform in the austere environment. The learner will be able to diagnose, treat and prevent conditions as well as rescue victims that have willingly or accidently entered into a body of water. The learner will become open water, advanced open water and water rescue dive certified. (32.5 Contact Hours)
Wilderness Medicine & Mountain Medicine (M3C)
Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Mt. Rainer, WA & Camp Ethan Allan, Jericho, VT
Course Description
Wilderness Medicine and Military Mountain Medicine are two separate courses offered twice each year. These courses are 10 days each and designed to provide extensive baseline knowledge in mountain/wilderness medicine.
The course is designed with didactic and practical exercises that integrate operational medicine with tactical skills like mountaineering, map reading, avalanche basics, patient transport and more. Practical training experiences are conducted in a wilderness setting. (42.5 Contact
Hours)
Cold Weather Medicine/Avalanche
Army Mountain Warfare School Camp Ethan Allan, Jericho, VT
Course Description
Cold Weather Medicine and the Avalanche 1 course are taught over 10 days and are offered two times a year for those who have completed M3C. These courses are designed to provide advanced cold weather and mountain training with an emphasis in casualty care and evacuation within the austere environment.
The curriculum includes: an introduction to avalanche terrain and navigations, snow pits, casualty care, patient packaging and transport and high- angle rescue. This training is conducted via practical exercises. (No contact hours are awarded at this time)