As the Pentagon prepares today’s force for a “near-peer” fight against a large military adversary, the Military Health System is challenged to provide life-saving support for large-scale and dispersed operations. That’s especially true for the medics supporting troops on the front lines.

Dr. Jonathan Woodson, a vascular surgeon and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, will lead the nation’s only federal health sciences university – the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences – as its new President.

In San Antonio, there is an ongoing effort to train as many people as possible on how to control bleeding to increase the chances for victim survival.

Years of military conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan brought innovations that completely transformed the Military Health System's approach to combat casualty care. Here's a list of just a few ways military medicine has evolved in the two decades since the 9/11 attacks.

The Faculty Student and Staff Development program teaches the importance of a customized study system to new and struggling METC students, while the government $36 million over the course of four years.

This is the largest pain military training in the country.

Davenport University is just one of nearly 90 colleges and universities that METC partners with to establish degree bridge programs for military personnel

The Virtual Medical Center, a joint Department of Defense/VA incentive, is relaunching by the end of summer, leveraging emerging technologies to increase and improve accessibility, convenience, and efficiency of medical care for all registered users.

Virtual/augmented reality, 3D printing, video/podcast production, and machine learning/artificial intelligence technologies and others like them will enhance the training students receive at METC and elsewhere by supplementing the lectures and providing realistic alternatives to actual experiences.

New First Aid for Severe Trauma Training Can Help High School Students ‘Stop the Bleed’

Clinical Communities Speaker Series: Evidence-Based Medicine

The Defense Health Agency’s Education and Training Directorate (J-7) provides professional and leadership courses to service members, civilians, and contractors.

Military mental health professionals provide a critical role in behavioral health care for service members and beneficiaries.

NDTs help diagnose problems with the brain and nervous system, as well as sleep disorders, by use of state-of-the-art digital equipment to record electrical patterns which result in valuable data that the doctor needs to diagnose and treat their patients.

Nutrition plays an important role in military readiness.