Former SF Medic Establishes Program to Reduce Battlefield Deaths

A medical fellowship program seeks to reduce battlefield deaths. A former Special Forces Medic who served in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993 and also in Afghanistan as a battalion surgeon in 2005 and 2010 believes that more can be done for battlefield casualties. The aim of the Military Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine Fellowship Program is to train physicians for the challenges of pre-hospital care on the battlefield. "Pre-hospital care" is that critical time between a traumatic event and when care is received at a military treatment facility. Read more in "Medical Fellowship Program Seeks to Reduce Battlefield Deaths", American Forces Press Service, January 14, 2014.