Research
Opportunity to Contribute to USU Research Project
Introduction:
Military medicine often requires providing advanced care in challenging environments with limited resources and personnel. Small, mobile surgical teams play a crucial role in bridging the gap between point-of-injury and definitive care. In a recent position statement by the Committee on Surgical Combat Casualty Care (CoSCCC), one of the concerns with Single-Surgeon Teams (as one model of the small military surgical teams) was the lack of standardized team composition and training. A key recommendation was to incorporate “cross-discipline training for skill redundancy in essential functions.” Despite this statement, there does not seem to be a standardized training curriculum or model specifically for these teams. As a result, teams frequently conduct their own internal cross training according to their own capabilities and mission requirements.
This research aims to understand how various small military surgical teams design, organize, and evaluate their cross-discipline training programs.
Your Participation:
We are seeking to interview military healthcare professionals from various specialties with experience on small military surgical teams. Your insights into your team’s training experiences, including curriculum development, training methodologies, assessment strategies, and readiness implications will be invaluable to this research.
Participation involves a one-time, approximately 60-90-minute, confidential focus group interview. Focus groups will be specialty-specific in order to facilitate group discussion among peers and will include the following professions:
Emergency Medicine Physicians
Emergency and Critical Care Nurses
Anesthesiologists and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists
Surgeons
There will also be one final member-checking focus group that will have representation from each of the professions of interest. The dates/times of the focus groups will be confirmed after participants have been identified, but tentative windows are as follows:
Round 1 (EM & Nurse groups): April 19 – May 2, 2025; June 7 – July 11 2025
Round 2 (Surgeon & Anesthesia groups): August 16 – September 29, 2025
Round 3 (Make-up dates as needed): December 13 – December 22, 2025
Round 4 (Member-checking group): January 5 – February 13, 2026
Benefits of Participation:
1. Contribute to valuable research: Your insights will help improve the effectiveness of cross-discipline training for military surgical teams, potentially enhancing the care provided to wounded service members.
2. Share your expertise: This is an opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with other healthcare professionals.
Confidentiality:
All information collected during the interviews will be kept strictly confidential. Your participation will remain anonymous in all research publications and presentations.
If you are interested in participating in this research study, please contact bryan.sundstrom@usuhs.edu.
Very Respectfully,
BRYAN P. SUNDSTROM, 2d Lt, USAF, MSC
Air Force Medical Student, Class of 2027
Uniformed Services University
Bethesda, MD
Call for 2024 Henry C. Wu, James J. Leonard, & Llewellyn J. Legters Awards for Excellence in Research
Introduction
The Henry C. Wu, James J. Leonard, and Llewellyn J. Legters Awards for Excellence in Research will be awarded annually to the USU Faculty members, in the estimation of their peers, have made the most significant contribution to the published literature during the previous three years (2021 or newer).
- The Wu Award recognizes excellence in basic biomedical research.
- The Leonard Award recognizes excellence in clinical research.
- The Legters Award recognizes excellence in population health science research.
Award recipients will present an Award Lecture named in honor of Drs. Wu, Leonard, and Legters during a Research Symposium. Each awardee will also receive a memento and a cash award of $2,500.
Nomination Requirements
The nominee must have a current university faculty appointment at the level of Instructor or above, excluding adjunct appointments. Any USU faculty member, staff, or student, may submit nominations for the Awards. Self-nominations by USU faculty are permitted. Resubmission of previous nomination packages is encouraged provided that the three-year publication deadline has not expired. Previous recipients of the award are not eligible within the first three full years of their last award.
The nomination package should include 3 items:
1) A copy of one (1) selected original research paper (Published after January 2021) upon which the nomination is based and meets the following criteria:
(a) Paper must have been published within the last three years
(b) Paper must have been published while the nominee performed as the faculty at USU with a minimum rank of Instructor or above and must be considered a member of the Faculty Assembly
(c) The nominee must be first or senior author on the paper, in addition to having the USU affiliation documented on the published paper
(d) The research reported is original and empirical.
2) A brief statement from the nominator outlining the significance of the published original research paper.
3) A copy of the nominee’s current curriculum vitae.
The closing date for nominations is October 4th, 2359hrs. Please send the completed nomination packages to wu-leonard-legters-awards-ggg@usuhs.edu.
If you have questions, please contact Dr. Joshua Gray, joshua.gray@usuhs.edu, Chair of the Faculty Senate Research Policy Committee.
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