JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Dec. 13, 2023) – U.S Navy Cmdr. Joseph Baugh (Medical Service Corps), of Long Island, N.Y., the incoming Inter-service Physician Assistant Program (IPAP) director assigned to Navy Medicine Training Support Center, discusses Phase 2 of the IPAP pipeline to students enrolled in the 29-month program 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. 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: | 8179560 |
VIRIN: | 231213-N-ND850-1003 |
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Location: | SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, US |
Hometown: | LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK, US |
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