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JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Dec. 13, 2023) – U.S Navy Capt. Carl Long (Medical Service Corps), of Youngstown, Ohio, Navy physician assistant specialty lead assigned to Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), discusses the Navy Surgeon General’s Campaign Order and the future direction of Navy physician assistants during Phase 1 of the Inter-service Physician Assistant Program (IPAP) held at Naval Medical Forces Support Command (NMFSC) headquarters. Students attend Phase I of training at Fort Sam Houston (64 weeks) and Phase II in San Diego (remainder of 29 months). Physician assistants work in military hospitals and clinics on U.S. soil, overseas, aboard ships and with special operations units. Additionally, they work hand in hand with supervising physicians and surgeons, provide a wide spectrum of services, handle primary-care issues or pursue a specific surgical subspecialty, oversee other members of the medical team, train in emerging need areas, such as emergency medicine, rural medicine and family practice. NMFSC develops and delivers integrated education and training that produces operational medical experts to project Medical Power in support of Naval Superiority. (U.S. Navy Photo by Burrell Parmer, NMFSC Public Affairs/Released)
| Date Taken: | 12.13.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 12.22.2023 12:49 |
| Photo ID: | 8179559 |
| VIRIN: | 231213-N-ND850-1002 |
| Resolution: | 2250x1500 |
| Size: | 1.57 MB |
| Location: | SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, US |
| Hometown: | YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, US |
| Web Views: | 121 |
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