Partnerships Advancing Military Medicine

With dedicated professionals across the globe, the Military Health System serves a dual mission:

  • We ensure a medically ready force, so every warfighter is fit to deploy, to fight, and to win, tonight if needed.
  • We sustain a ready medical force to ensure our clinicians, medics, and other professionals have the skills they need to save lives in combat and to deliver high-quality care anywhere, anytime.

To help sustain and strengthen medical readiness skills, the MHS has long-standing partnerships with civilian centers of excellence and academic hospitals to embed military personnel in high-volume trauma centers to maintain critical life-saving skills.

Collage of military and civilian healthcare providers working together.

These partnerships are managed at the service level that support medical teams across the force, and at the regional and local level.

The Army, Navy, and Air Force coordinate extensive trauma training for deploying medical teams at civilian medical centers across the country to include the University of Pennsylvania, Cook County Health in Chicago, and the Navy Trauma Training Center at Los Angeles General Medical Center. Regional Navy Medicine commands also coordinate team training for Fleet Surgical Teams at Harbor-UCLA, UC Irvine in California, and Virginia Commonwealth University.

They use a layered, multidisciplinary approach that combines the capabilities of our military facilities with civilian trauma center partnerships, simulations, and operational training.

On these pages, explore the various programs through the direct links to the programs and read the latest news on how these programs support a ready medical force.

  • Navy Medicine Research and Development
  • Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Health Professions Scholarship Program
  • Naval Trauma and Training Center — University of Southern California Medical Center
  • Graduate Medical Education

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