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BRAC and Army medicine
Started by idq1i
idq1i said:
Wally-World will be reduced to a shadow of it's former self, with virtually all training programs and (I believe) inpatient services being transferred to Bethesda, to be renamed.
BAMC is absorbing the Air Force inpatients and training programs from Wilford Hall, which is being turned into an outpatient facility/clinic. In fact, the BRAC has all Air Force facilities losing their inpatient services, to become nothing more than clinics or same-day surgery facilities. This includes Keesler and Travis AFBs, along with Wilford Hall.
This seems like an improvement for everyone. NNMC and Walter Reed merge into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Army and Navy residents enjoy more patient volume and only one location and it keeps the good WR name. Better for USUHS rotations as well.
Same with switching centers to clinics and eliminating centers; gets rid of those terrible billets where skills atrophy. Maybe military medicine will return to where it once was in terms of training quality etc...
Same with switching centers to clinics and eliminating centers; gets rid of those terrible billets where skills atrophy. Maybe military medicine will return to where it once was in terms of training quality etc...
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idq1i said:
YES!
The Surgeon General of the Navy spoke at USUHS a couple of months ago and was very emphatic on the point that GME training was not going away. Now he could always be pulling our chains, but I doubt it, he was very clear on that point.
