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Brigade Commander, F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University – 01 JUL 2026
USU, Brigade Commander– President requests qualified candidates for the Brigade commander position. Candidates must be in the grade of 0-6. Candidate must have character traits to represent the University within the DoD, the federal government and within the academic community. The candidate will serve as a role-model of a career-oriented military health professional and is eligible for a faculty appointment at the level of assistant professor or above. The candidate has demonstrated the ability to led successfully within the complex military environment and has previous success in a military command and in an academic setting are preferred, though not required. The candidate is available for a three-year assignment. The desired report date is NLT than 1 Jul 2026.
Nomination Package Requirements: Command endorsement letter, CV, letter of intent, up to three supplemental letters of recommendation and copies of the last three performance reports. The letter of intent should include a summary of military and civilian education, assignment history and the names with contact information of three references with names and contact information. The letter of intent must include the candidate’s commitment to USU and that, if selected, they will accept the job.
Fully completed and combined nomination packages will be emailed to CAPT Shauna O’Sullivan NLT 1200 EST Tuesday, 13 May 2025.
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
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