Green Beret U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Jacob "Jake” Anthony was deployed to Afghanistan in 2005 on a mission to find a target. His team was breaching a door that turned out to be booby-trapped, resulting in an explosion that killed his teammate in front of him. Anthony would take shrapnel to the right frontal lobe to his brain and had to be initially ...

The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity is an integral component of the Department of Defense’s medical readiness enterprise. A key to USAMMDA’s success as the DOD’s premier developer of modernized medical devices, treatments, and equipment is the knowledge and experience brought to the table by its many veterans, who work alongside both ...

Airmen from the 97th Medical Group partnered with airmen from Sheppard and Vance Air Force Bases for a readiness exercise at Clinton Sherman Airfield Park in Oklahoma, Oct. 26, 2023.

Saving wounded service members in a combat environment is an intense experience with no room for mistakes.

Military students from the Uniformed Services University conducted immersive medical team training in the university's Wide-Area Virtual Environment. The theater is a a state-of-the-art 3D immersive reality facility that simulates various scenarios, replicating environments from war zones to medical emergencies, to prepare them for real-world medical ...

Although the paths that Air Force Capt. Grace Kim and Army 1st Lts. Demetre Harris and David Owunna took to achieve their shared dream of becoming physician assistants (PAs) differed, all donned their white lab coats as the military’s newest PAs during their graduation from the Interservice Physician Assistant Program (IPAP) on Sept. 29 at Walter Reed.

As the use of digital textbooks in schools continues to increase, hard copy textbooks are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Even more so after the coronavirus pandemic forced schools to transition to remote and hybrid learning, resulting in the skyrocketing use of electronic textbooks, or eBooks, and audiobooks in the classroom.

Hospital Corpsman Second Class Douglass Jones joined the Navy to challenge himself and develop skills that could one day be useful outside of the military. Fortunately for one service member, Jones was able to apply his newly learned skills in a very unexpected way.

More than 180 service members from the Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard, Army Reserve, and the U.S. Navy converged upon the area to train and provide no-cost health care to area residents.

When the Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) first stood up on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas 13 years ago, it became the world’s largest enlisted medical education campus.

The Uniformed Services University's Department of Gynecologic Surgery & Obstetrics (GSO) is making educational videos to assist with student engagement and learning.

According to Dink Jardine, director for professional education at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune, their previous simulation training exercises have been challenging due to a lack of medical center spaces needed for patient care. The new Healthcare Simulation and Bio Skills Center opened its doors July 11, 2023, and will provide more availability to ...

Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune’s Family Medicine Residency Program graduated 11 physicians and 10 interns on June 30, 2023. For the 12th consecutive year, the graduating class received 100% pass rates on their Family Medicine Certification Examinations given by the American Board of Family Medicine.

Personnel from the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine are facilitating a six-month education and training course for international students, supporting medical readiness and enhanced interoperability between the United States and partners.

Sailors from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Portsmouth enhanced a casualty receiving treatment and amphibious assault ship USS Bataan and conducted a three-day certification exercise as part of a continued commitment to mission readiness, March 21.