In its archetypal semester arsenic a pupil enactment astatine the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, the Military Medicine Interest Group precocious hosted the Stop the Bleed and Tactical Combat Casualty Care grooming event. The lawsuit educated students and aboriginal subject physicians connected transporting and caring for individuals with traumatic bleeding.
The tactical combat casualty attraction grooming lawsuit when, held successful the General Education Building, was led by Captain Chase Morris, Army aesculapian officer, and Staff Sergeant Eryne McGlone, Army combat medic, teaching however to prevention an idiosyncratic from bleeding to death, arsenic good arsenic the due transport of injured patients from warfare oregon unsafe environments to the nearest hospital.
The lawsuit besides taught skills connected applying unit to stabilize a patient, packing a hemorrhaging wound, and applying a tourniquet to trim excessive humor loss.
“My purpose was to program an lawsuit that could incorporated a skillset to beryllium a utile instrumentality from the frontlines to the location front,” said Lincoln Mitchell, Second Lieutenant successful the U.S. Army, and second-year aesculapian pupil astatine UTHSC. “Having been certified by this invaluable course, attendees present person the quality to alteration from witnesses to lifesaving leaders that tin halt the bleed and prevention a life.”
The Military Medicine Interest Group aims to link UTHSC students who are passionate to service the state done wellness care. The radical includes erstwhile work members and students successful the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP). The HPSP is simply a work assistance programme offered to students done the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force. The programme covers each nonstop acquisition costs, specified arsenic tuition, fees, books, wellness insurance, and provides a monthly stipend. In return, determination is simply a one-year active-duty work committedness for each twelvemonth of information successful the program, with a minimum committedness of 3 years.
“Although the nine is comprised of galore existent HPSP students, we besides person erstwhile work members successful the club, and invited each students with anterior subject inheritance to join, arsenic their experiences supply a invaluable plus to those of america that are caller to the subject lifestyle,” Mitchell said.
The enactment aspires to promote students funny successful wellness attraction careers successful the subject and the HPSP.
“While we each travel from antithetic backgrounds, colleges, and adjacent subject branches, we stock a communal extremity having answered the telephone to supply the champion wellness attraction imaginable to our nation’s warriors, the men and women selflessly consenting to springiness it each successful work to this nation,” helium said. “That is an grant and a privilege we person decided to uphold, and wherever they are called crossed the globe to support freedom, truthful are we.”