HM Training Revision Better Meets Fleet Needs, SG, CNO Priorities

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HM Training Revision Better Meets Fleet Needs, SG, CNO Priorities

Story Number: NNS170331-22Release Date: 3/31/2017 2:16:00 PM

By Larry Coffey, Navy Medicine Education and Training Command Public Affairs

WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNS) -- The Navy's largest rating will soon see the most significant training changes since the Hospital Corps "A" School's 2011 move from Great Lakes, Illinois, to San Antonio, Texas, Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, the Navy surgeon general, announced during congressional testimony March 29.
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"We are changing and improving the training of our corpsmen at HM "A" school in San Antonio," Faison told the subcommittee. "Our curriculum changes are focused on providing ready and relevant training that will prepare them to manage the continuum of care in high-threat or complex environments most likely to be encountered by our sea-based expeditionary Navy and Marine Corps forces."
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The new Hospital Corpsmen curriculum is scheduled to begin in July. "This is a total revision of the existing curriculum," said Chief Hospital Corpsman Renee Byam, the Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command (NMETLC) skills management leading chief petty officer. "The revision increases hands-on training by approximately 20 percent," which was directly identified by key stakeholders, the operational forces, medical treatment facilities and Faison during lifecycle curriculum review studies.

As with all training programs, the curriculum changes began with an ongoing NMETLC monitoring and survey process, said Dino Nelson, an NMETLC instructional systems specialist. Along with extensive technical and content reviews, the "lifecycle management process" includes a "follow-up" with Hospital Corps "A" School graduates and their first duty station supervisors to assess how the training aligns with the needs of the fleet. Medical subject-matter experts from the fleet and NMETLC training commands were also consulted and offered an opportunity to provide feedback.

Navy Corpsmen and Air Force Medical Technicians currently train together in a consolidated training environment at the tri-service Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) on board Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, said Capt. Terri Kinsey, NMETLC academics director. When the services first consolidated with one another, the Navy Medicine requirements identified the Military Treatment Facility (MTF) as the primary duty station for a basic corpsman to perform skills obtained in training. The newly developed Navy curriculum will also focus on the operational environments, to which Navy corpsmen are also assigned. Adding the fleet and expeditionary environments added two areas that require corpsman training to deconsolidate away from common classroom training with the Air Force.
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