{"id":8119,"date":"2023-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=8119"},"modified":"2023-05-01T15:00:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T15:00:54","slug":"new-deployed-medical-training-to-expand-medical-skills-build-multi-capable-medics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=8119","title":{"rendered":"New deployed medical training to expand medical skills, build multi-capable medics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AFNS) — \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Air Force Medical Service<\/strong><\/a> is expanding its MEDIC-X initiative across the Air Force to ensure all Airmen assigned to medical treatment facilities are adaptable and ready for a dynamic future battlefield.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brig. Gen. Thomas Harrell<\/a><\/strong>, Air Force Medical Readiness Agency<\/a><\/strong> commander, signed a memo<\/a><\/strong> on April 3 outlining the rollout of MEDIC-X across the Air Force by July 1. MEDIC-X is the Air Force Surgeon General\u2019s initiative to ensure all medical personnel are equipped with the life-sustaining skills needed for a challenging and dynamic future battlefield where resources may be limited.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We know the future fight will be different, and so will the idea of what it will take for us to sustain readiness. I believe we are taking the necessary steps to do just that.”Lt. Gen. Robert Miller, U.S. Air Force Surgeon General<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The rollout of MEDIC-X is the Air Force Medical Service\u2019s response to the demand for multi-capable Airmen, aligning with Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr.<\/strong><\/a>‘s operational doctrine<\/strong><\/a>, which requires equipping Airmen with skills that go beyond their duty title.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFuture conflict will never look like wars of the past, and that is why we have to get after building multi-capable, strategically minded Airmen today, so they can compete, deter, and win tomorrow,\u201d said Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force\u00a0JoAnne S. Bass<\/a><\/strong>. \u201cAFDN 1-21<\/a><\/strong> presents, in doctrine, expeditionary and multi-capable Airmen capable of accomplishing tasks outside of their core Air Force specialty to provide combat support and combat service support to [Agile Combat Employment<\/strong><\/a>] force elements.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

With MEDIC-X, every Air Force medic, including those not involved in patient care like administrators or lab technicians, will need to be proficient in 52 skills that will ensure the Air Force\u2019s medical force is ready for the next fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThese 52 skills are not normally within a majority of medical group training,\u201d said Lt. Col. Samantha Kelpis, the Air Force Medical Service\u2019s MEDIC-X team lead. \u201cAn administrator doesn\u2019t normally do any hands-on patient care. MEDIC-X trains them on skills they will need in a challenging deployed environment where the priority is not going to be completing administrative tasks, it is going to be saving lives. When they are deployed and resources are limited, they need to know how to perform some level of patient care.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

MEDIC-X\u2019s 52 skills encompass base-level patient care that is easily teachable through hands-on, in-person training to any medical personnel, whether they treat patients regularly or not. The training includes such skills as assessing pain levels, infection control, taking a patient\u2019s vital signs, assisting with spinal immobilization, patient movement, and respiratory care.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Kelpis, every medical Airman must participate in the full annual training or demonstrate competency in those skills in a formal evaluation. She also explained that most physicians, nurses, and medical technicians can be granted credit for most of the skills, especially the ones they use in their day-to-day jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though the MEDIC-X training is primarily focused on those individuals who do not engage in direct patient care on a regular basis, there could be skills a traditional clinician may need a refresher on,\u201d Kelpis said. \u201cFor instance, if you are a critical care medical technician who works with an aeromedical evacuation unit, you would be familiar with most of the MEDIC-X skills already compared to a family medicine medical technician that works in a clinic. Those clinical-focused individuals may not have the working knowledge of a ventilator or offloading a patient from a fixed wing aircraft depending on their prior work or deployment experience. With that said, those individuals would need to go through the training of those skills they are unfamiliar with.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AFNS) — \u00a0 The Air Force Medical Service is expanding its MEDIC-X initiative across the Air Force to ensure all Airmen assigned to medical treatment facilities are adaptable and ready for a dynamic future battlefield.\u00a0 Brig. Gen. Thomas Harrell, Air Force Medical Readiness Agency commander, signed a memo on April 3 outlining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8122,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8119\/revisions\/8122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}