The Honorable Thomas McCaffery, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, observes a Combat Medic Specialist Program student as she assesses and treats a "casualty" in the Combat Trauma Patient Simulator at the Medical Education and Training Campus Oct. 20. The casualties in the CTPS are life-like manikins called human patient simulators that appear to have received traumatic injuries, ranging from gunshot wounds to amputations, in an "explosion" set off by a suicide bomber. The realistic training conditions allow students to make mistakes without harming anyone while gaining the experience they need to be effective on a real patient in a battlefield environment. McCaffery met with METC leadership and toured programs to learn how the schoolhouse trains and prepares the future enlisted medical force during as part of a multi-day visit to Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 19-21.
| Date Taken: | 10.20.2020 |
| Date Posted: | 10.26.2020 15:50 |
| Photo ID: | 6402043 |
| VIRIN: | 201020-D-SC228-018 |
| Resolution: | 4928x3264 |
| Size: | 7.44 MB |
| Location: | US |
| Web Views: | 19 |
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