Recently added articles from Military Medicine:
From the AMSUS President
Jul 01, 2008; Galson, Steven K ... Dear AMSUS Members: As President of AMSUS for 2008, it is my distinct honor to invite you to attend the 114th AMSUS Annual Meeting, November 9-14, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas. The Program Planning Committee, section Chairs, and Maj Gen George Anderson, AMSUS Executive Director, have ...
NEWS OF INTEREST: Wounded Soldiers Optimistic While Health Care Improves
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... DoD and Veterans Affairs are making progress in improving the medical care of returning injured soldiers and military veterans. Defense secretary Robert M. Gates, Veterans Affairs secretary James B. Peake, Deputy Defense secretary Gordon R. England and Deputy Veterans Affairs secretary Gordon H ....
DoD Recognizes Stigma and Changes Security Clearance Question on Mental Health
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Department of Defense recently changed a mental health question on their long standing security clearance form because officials believe that it may be preventing some from seeking the care they need. The change was made to Standard Form 86, Questionnaire for National security Positions. The ...
DoD, VA Leaders Map Way to Care of Wounded
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... DoD and VA departments are working together to solve problems of today's wounded warriors. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England told the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, the two departments are working to " ...improve support of wounded, ill, and injured service members' recovery, ...
Recovery Coordinators Aid Seriously Injured Veterans
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... VA is living up to its commitment to improve services to those seriously injured in Iraq and Afghanistan by creating a new Federal Recovery Coordinator Program (FRCP). As part of the program, VA workers have been deployed to key military treatment facilities around the country. The program ...
Wounded Soldiers Cared for by New Armed Forces Institute
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Department of Defense (DoD) announced the creation of a new federally funded institution focused on regenerative tissue generation, the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM). The AFIRM will be made up of two multi-institutional consortia, one led by Wake .. Forest ...
New VA "Travel Nurse Corps" Hits the Road
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... To deal with a nationwide shortage of nurses and to improve the quality of care for veterans, the VA has created a "Travel Nurse Corps" enabling VA nurses to travel and work throughout the Department's medical system. The Travel Nurse Corps, headquartered at the Phoenix VA health care system, is ...
VA Secretary Focuses on Care Continuum
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Veterans Affair Secretary and AMSUS member Dr. James B. Peake laid out his priorities five months after taking the lead of the nation's second largest Cabinet department. Amongst the priorities discussed by Peake in a recent interview are providing a better transition of care, enabling more ...
VA Begins Next Phase of Combat Vet Outreach
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The VA announced that it has completed making calls to veterans potentially identified as being ill or injured from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF-OIF), and will immediately begin targeting over 500,000 OEF-OIF veterans who have been discharged from active duty but ...
VA and Army Face High Suicide Rates
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Senior VA officials confirmed that vets commit suicide at a rate of 126 vets per week, or 18 per day. Army records show the suicide rate for soldiers went up to 115 in 2007, the highest since the Army started keeping track in 1980. Almost a third of the soldiers died at the battlefront, with 32 ...
USPHS Joins Pacific Partnership
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... USPHS sent 50 of its officers aboard USNS Mercy in support of Pacific Partnership 2008. The team is providing aid and specialized medical, dental and civic assistance to the multidimensioned humanitarian effort. Countries that will benefit from the mission include: the Philippines, Vietnam, ...
Nurses Corps Sees 100th Anniversary
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Nurses have served in every war since the Civil War, where they mended wounded soldiers on military hospital ship Red Rover. Although nurses were taking care of wounded service members on the battlefront, they weren't distinguished as the Navy Nurse Corps until May 1907 when then-President ...
Caregivers Given Support with New Program
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, has embarked on a program that seeks to care for a segment of the military medical community more used to giving care than receiving it. The program, called Care for Caregivers, was created to find and treat a syndrome ...
Virtual Reality Brings Therapy to PTSD Patients
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Imagine an environment where soldiers can walk the roads of Iraq with a standard issued m-4 in hand, feel the shockwave from an IED blast, experience the feeling of being ambushed by Iraqi forces and then smell the scent of gunpowder from fired weapons after the battle has completed. Dr. Greg ...
PHS Signs Historic Agreement with DoD
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Public Health Service and the Department of Defense have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) allowing foras many as 200 Commissioned Corps mental health providers to be detailed to Military Treatment Facilities around the country. The providers will be psychiatrists, clinical ...
Third Generation TRICARE Contracts Herald the Future of Military Health Care
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The third generation of TRICARE contracts are expected to deliver the highest possible customer satisfaction, top quality health care, and best value. The new contracts offer stronger inducements for customer satisfaction, especially for network enrollees. These financial incentives are part of ...
USUHS Celebrates 29th Commencement
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... On 17 May 2008, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences celebrated it's 29th commencement ceremony at the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. The university is the nation's only fully accredited federal school of medicine ...
AMSUS Participates in Local Food Drive
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... This last year, AMSUS embarked on a project to update its membership database, iMIS (see article following this for more details). As part of this effort, we contracted with a company by the name of Delcor to assist in the selection of just the right system for our needs. Delcor aids the Capital ...
BREASTFEEDING COALITION OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES (BCUS/BECAUSE) UPDATE: "Babies Were Born to Be Breastfed."
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Breastfeeding Coalition of the Uniformed Services (BCUS/ BECAUSE) which was founded in 2001 is dedicated to the Innocenti Declaration which protects, support and promotes breastfeeding. In view of the recent disasters, please be aware that the American Academy of Pediatrics Breastfeeding ...
Member Get-A-Member Campaign Broadened
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Member Get-A-Member Campaign is now offering: * Challenge Coin for one new member * AMSUS Jersey Polo Shirt for three new members * A free year of AMSUS membership for five new members. Plus * The person who has brought the most new members in to AMSUS ...