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U.S. Air Force Maj. Miesha Sheffey, Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa surgeon compartment preventive medicine officer, speaks during a Military Tropical Medicine Course astatine Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Oct. 31, 2022. The people brought unneurotic associated and allied partners for tropical aesculapian education. The people was designed to bid physicians, mid-level practitioners, nurses, medics and each different allied wellness professionals. (Department of Defense photograph by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Destani K. Matheny)
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A Japanese aesculapian nonrecreational attends a Military Tropical Medicine Course astatine Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Oct. 31, 2022. The people brought unneurotic associated and allied partners for tropical aesculapian education. The people was designed to bid physicians, mid-level practitioners, nurses, medics and each different allied wellness professionals. (Department of Defense photograph by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Destani K. Matheny)
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U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Laura J. Gilbert, Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa surgeon compartment infectious diseases unit physician, speaks during a Military Tropical Medicine Course astatine Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Oct. 31, 2022. The people brought unneurotic associated and allied partners for tropical aesculapian education. The people was designed to bid physicians, mid-level practitioners, nurses, medics and each different allied wellness professionals. (Department of Defense photograph by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Destani K. Matheny)
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A taxable substance adept gives a presumption during a Military Tropical Medicine Course astatine Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Oct. 31, 2022. The people brought unneurotic associated and allied partners for tropical aesculapian education. The people was designed to bid physicians, mid-level practitioners, nurses, medics and each different allied wellness professionals. (Department of Defense photograph by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Destani K. Matheny)
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A people subordinate learns however to use a subject moving canine tourniquet connected a simulated canine diligent during a Military Tropical Medicine Course astatine Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Oct. 31, 2022. The people brought unneurotic associated and allied partners for tropical aesculapian education. The people was designed to bid physicians, mid-level practitioners, nurses, medics and each different allied wellness professionals. (Department of Defense photograph by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Destani K. Matheny)
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A subordinate of the Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa surgeon compartment stretches a tourniquet to spot however choky they indispensable propulsion the worldly implicit a coiled during a Military Tropical Medicine Course astatine Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Oct. 31, 2022. The people brought unneurotic associated and allied partners for tropical aesculapian education. The people was designed to bid physicians, mid-level practitioners, nurses, medics and each different allied wellness professionals. (Department of Defense photograph by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Destani K. Matheny)
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Military Tropical Medicine Course participants observe a presumption astatine Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Oct. 31, 2022. The people brought unneurotic associated and allied partners for tropical aesculapian education. The people was designed to bid physicians, mid-level practitioners, nurses, medics and each different allied wellness professionals. (Department of Defense photograph by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Destani K. Matheny)
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The Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) surgeon compartment hosted multinational partners and different U.S. subject aesculapian professionals during a Military Tropical Medicine Course (MTMC) Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2022.
“This biannual grooming has a past astatine Camp Lemonnier stretching backmost aggregate years,” said U.S. Air Force Capt. James Dougherty, CJTF-HOA surgeon compartment preventive medicine officer. “Recently, the people had to instrumentality a interruption owed to COVID-19, and this iteration is the 2nd since being resumed. The people has go an fantabulous accidental to connection front-line medics, providers and different unit extortion work members a accidental to larn much astir the operating environment, the ongoing and emerging threats, and besides provides nonrecreational level Continuing Medical Education (CME), a indispensable for our providers and credentialed work members.”
The three-day people covered infectious diseases, communal wellness exposures, deadly animals, and Canine Critical Care, among different topics. The MTMC is unfastened to each who person an interest. This iteration of the people had participants from the U.S. Embassy successful Djibouti, Japan, France and Spain.
“This accrued their cognition of highly circumstantial threats successful the portion and besides exposed them to specialties extracurricular of their own,” said Dougherty. “This enhances crosstalk and enables much businesslike communication.”
The 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS) states that the U.S. indispensable prioritize interoperability, and cognition exchanges similar these with associated partners not lone enhances capabilities but besides supply captious opportunities for U.S. work members to larn done and alongside them.
The MTMC is conscionable 1 illustration of however the surgeon cell, arsenic portion of CJTF-HOA, preserves the wellness of the unit wrong the command’s country of involvement portion providing guidance to commanders and the associated services passim the task force.
The CJTF-HOA Surgeon Cell is simply a multifaceted directorate with the stated extremity of preserving the wellness of the unit done preventive medicine, surveillance, aesculapian quality analysis, situation response, and enactment with the wellness services of our subject and civilian partners. This tin pb to members responding to a nutrient borne illness outbreak, organizing humor deliveries, enabling casualty evacuation, and providing aesculapian situation effect counseling each wrong a azygous day. Additionally, the surgeon compartment provides command, power and coordination of each CJTF-HOA aesculapian assets.
“This people provided our beforehand enactment medics with actionable cognition that enhances their quality to respond successful volatile and unpredictable environments; to supply our clinicians with rigorous CME connected emerging diseases, exotic pathogens, and supply scope backmost capabilities for precocious level care; and to fortify and heighten the relationships with our associated partners, amended enabling an integrated and interoperable aesculapian situation successful East Africa,” said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Matthew Bay, CJTF-HOA surgeon compartment director.
Headquartered astatine Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, CJTF-HOA is located connected the lone imperishable U.S. subject installation connected the African continent. As a dynamic operational headquarters, CJTF-HOA ensures a strategical concern with Djibouti and partners, nations, conjugation forces and interagency and intergovernmental organizations to execute a unified effort.
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