Research
Seeking Volunteers for Deployment Related Research Survey
Title: “Assessing the Efficacy of Pre-Deployment Training in the Development and Sustainment of Operationally-Relevant Medical Skills – A Survey Study”
Who: Military Medical Personnel who have deployed and may or may not have completed a humanitarian mission prior to deployment
What: Survey study to collect information on clinician perceived pre-deployment training gaps
When: Participate now by clicking this link: https://go.intelink.gov/DM1s7oY
Why: The goal of this study is to obtain military medical provider experiences that can describe perceived weaknesses in pre-deployment clinical practice (to include both training and direct patient care) to develop potential deployment preparedness gaps that can improve overall military medical readiness.
* Aim 1 Address the difference in perceived preparedness for combat deployments between emergency/critical care and non-emergency/critical care clinicians.
* Aim 2 Examine the impact of serving humanitarian missions on operational readiness and sustainment of combat medical skills.
Costs, Risks, and Benefits of Participation: There are no costs or compensation associated with this study. This survey should take about 10-15 minutes of your time. Participation is voluntary and you may skip questions or withdraw participation at any time during the survey. Information collected is anonymous, so there are minimal risks associated with participating. Participation in this research is not guaranteed to benefit you personally. However, the information we gather from your participation in this survey may help improve pre-deployment training, which will improve both patient outcomes and the deployment experience of you and your fellow service members.
If you have any questions, please reach out to the following Points of Contact in this document:
AMSUS Breakout Presentations – New Selection Process
AMSUS has changed the process for selecting breakout presentations for its upcoming 2023 AMSUS Annual Meeting, 13-16 February 2023.
This year submissions for the breakout sessions will take place internally at BUMED with a priority for topics determined by the Surgeon General.
Preferred topics: Unclassified briefs on operational medicine topics that relates to Navy Medicine’s operational design – which may include:
· Initiatives/projects that support new and evolving operational medicine capabilities
· Topics that directly speak to Navy Medicine’s man/train/equip mission
· Topics that support our warfighting concepts of Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO), Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment (LOCE), and Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO)
· Topics that support Joint and/or allied partnerships looking to leverage capabilities, training and infrastructure for a common continuum across the distributed maritime domain
· The Maritime Headquarters/Maritime Operations Center construct
· Other topics may also be considered.
Selectees and non-selectees will be informed of the board’s decision. Selected speakers will be provided the process to forward their paperwork to AMSUS. 03 October 2022 will be the hard deadline submission date for selected breakout presentations to AMSUS.
Action: Forward the title of the presentation along with a detailed description of the proposed presentation along with the speaker’s name(s). Submissions must be received no later than close of business 08 September 2022
Deliverable: Submissions must be received no later than close of business 08 September 2022 to POC, CAPT Marc D. Herwitz, Director, Maritime Headquarters via email (contact in the global).
POC: CAPT Marc D. Herwitz, Director, Maritime Headquarters who can be reached (contact in the global).
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