MOM 4120 Military Operational Clinical Experience
Military operational medicine electives may be arranged as a preceptorship under a licensed physician or physician group providing preventive and acute healthcare services for an operational military unit. Battalion Surgeons and Flight Surgeons would be two examples. The clinical rotation will typically be in a clinic or clinic-like setting, which may or may not be co-located with a Medical Treatment Facility (MTF). It affords students the chance to learn about the role of physicians on a commander’s staff and health services support of operational aerospace, ground, or maritime units in garrison and pre-deployment settings.
Military Operational Medicine Electives, sample list including but not limited to:
- Navy Diving & Salvage Training Center in Panama City (two-four weeks) – work alongside Navy UMOs; this is not a “course” but more of an operational clinical rotation;
- Naval Special Warfare Center in Coronado, CA (two-four weeks) – this is where BUDS training occurs; work alongside Navy physicians that provide oversight of BUDS and other Special Forces training; not a true “course” but more of an operational clinical rotation;
- Special Operations Combat Medic at Fort Liberty– two to four weeks – work alongside the 18D students and Instructors at Fort Liberty in this Special Operations community;
- Aerospace Medicine at Luke AFB;
- NASA Aerospace Medicine;
- Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Flight Medicine Clinic.