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Fort Liberty, N.C.--Womack Army Medical Center Graduate Medical Education residents participated in a four-day capstone exercise event designed to expose them to providing medical care in a deployed environment, June 6-9. The events included Trauma Combat and Trauma Nursing Casualty Course Training, Individual Critical Task List (ICTL) and a mass casualty exercise. The exercises simulate some of the roles the graduates may be expected to perform in a combat environment. Eleven residents and 10 Clinical Nurse Transition Program (CNTP) students participated in the exercise held at the Taylor-Sandri Medical Training Center, Fort Liberty.
During the ICTL training Family Medicine Hospitalist Fellowship Program Director, Col. Edward Jones, provided residents with hands-on experience on the placement of chest tubes, using live skin models.
“These graduating family medicine residents could likely be deployed in a short amount of time and could be thrust into doing these types of procedures in a downrange setting,” said Jones. “They're trained to do them, but they don't do them on a regular basis in a brick-and-mortar hospital building, so we are teaching them on these live skin models.”
When fellows complete the WAMC Family Medicine Hospitalist Fellowship program that began in 2015, they are prepared to run a hospitalist service at a teaching hospital or rural hospital. They are also trained to care for injured adults and children in a deployment setting.
Part of the week’s training included the treatment of military working dogs, who might be injured in the line of fire. Capt. Shannon Hamilton, student in the Veterinary Corps Officer First Year Graduate Veterinary Education Program said the training is important.
“It is important for medical personnel to have this training because they may be treating military dogs without a Veterinary Corps officer available, so they need to know the difference between humans and canines which is important for the overall success and survivability of a military working dog.”
During the mass casualty exercise the resident physicians and CNTP nurses worked together to provide treatment to five simulated injured individuals.
“The nurses did not hesitate, they were not intimidated, what I saw here today was teamwork,” said Kim Howard, director of the Clinical Nurse Transition Program. “That doctor-nurse interaction is very important, because no doctor or nurse can work a code by themselves.”
Overseeing this part of the transition to practice was Col. Tyler Harris, orthopaedic surgeon. He said, each year, their hope is to grow the program, building on what they currently have, as they are bringing in more residents.
“It’s really a pleasure for us to see these young providers about to enter the force, and they're so enthusiastic. It’s great to provide them a little bit of extra experience,” said Harris. “Some of these folks we are going to invite to come back, and they'll be our future instructors,” said Harris.
Family Medicine Resident, Capt. Michael ‘Jeremy’ Lawson, said it was an excellent exercise.
“I learned a lot and I think the rest of residents got some exposure that will be helpful for them in the future. The idea is to teach people to remain calm and render help to the people that are the most critical first and get them to a higher level of care as quickly as possible. That way, they can get the care they need and the people that are less critical, we can manage at our level.”
As the program grows the simulation team is already making plans for the upcoming year according to Nancy Harnois, Medical Simulation Program administrator.
“The simulation team is already beginning the planning for next year’s event involving more interprofessional groups and with earlier planning hope to create partnerships with Fort Liberty units to provide enhanced operational capabilities,” said Harnois.
| Date Taken: | 06.29.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 06.29.2023 14:47 |
| Story ID: | 448283 |
| Location: | FORT LIBERTY, NORTH CAROLINA, US |
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