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Suresh MR, Staudt AM, Trevino JD, Papalski WN, Greydanus DJ, Valdez-Delgado KK, Mann-Salinas EA, VanFosson CA. A Deeper Dive Into Combat Medic Training. Mil Med 2023; 188:usad050. [PMID: 36848148 DOI: 10.1093/milmed/usad050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2022] [Revised: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 03/01/2023] Open
Abstract
The recent article by Knisely et al. provides a comprehensive review and summary of recent literature describing simulation techniques, training strategies, and technologies to teach medics combat casualty care skills. Some of the results reported by Knisely et al. align with the findings of our team's work, and these findings may be helpful to military leadership with their ongoing efforts to maintain medical readiness. Accordingly, we provide some additional contextual understanding to the results of Knisely et al. in this commentary. Our team recently published two papers describing the results of a large survey that examined Army medic pre-deployment training. Combining the findings of Knisely et al. along with some of the contextual information from our work, we provide some recommendations for improving and optimizing the pre-deployment training paradigm for medics.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mithun R Suresh
- Department of Medicine, St. Cloud Hospital, St Cloud, MN 56303, USA
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- Department of Medicine, The Geneva Foundation, Tacoma, WA 98402, USA
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- Naval Special Warfare Group Two, Navy Liaison Officer to the Joint Trauma System, Virginia Beach, VA 23459, USA
| | | | - Krystal K Valdez-Delgado
- En Route Care Research Center, 59MDW/Science and Technology, Defense Health Center, JBSA Ft. Sam Houston, TX 78234, USA
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