Teaching Military Medicine as a Basic Science: Military Applied Physiology

The Symbiotic Relationship Between Operational Military Medicine, Tactical Medicine, and Wilderness Medicine: A View Through a Personal Lens

“…The Department of MEM and the Department of Physiology developed the MAP course, dealing with many of the topics covered in WMS educational programs and fellowship programs. 11 In addition to didactics linking it to the human physiology course given in parallel, the MAP course was linked to environmental, hypo- and hyperbaric chamber rides, and a 10-day field exercise with students living in tents and subsisting on field rations. The course also included care of simulated casualties, cross-country movement and land navigation, small unit (squad and platoon) leadership, field preventive medicine, and emergency rapid reaction and improvisation drills.…”