Emergency war surgery course

[Denatured]

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I have an opportunity to go to the above course, but neither my current command nor the marine battalion I'm going to deploy with is willing to pay for it. Well, the marines would, but I'm not attached to them yet. Is this course worth going to for the non-surgeon, even if it requires paying for the flight and hotel? The flight costs $349. I might also get a military flight for free. I enjoyed C4, and this seems like something I would enjoy as well. My command does support it enough to give me time off to go. Any thoughts appreciated.

 

[DrMetal]

I have an opportunity to go to the above course, but neither my current command nor the marine battalion I'm going to deploy with is willing to pay for it. Well, the marines would, but I'm not attached to them yet. Is this course worth going to for the non-surgeon, even if it requires paying for the flight and hotel? The flight costs $349. I might also get a military flight for free. I enjoyed C4, and this seems like something I would enjoy as well. My command does support it enough to give me time off to go. Any thoughts appreciated.

What course are you talking about? Who runs this? If it's a course run by civilian training program, then it might be worth it. If it's a military training program, then I'd proceed with caution. Contrary to popular belief, the military doesn't really do trauma medicine all that well. The civilian world is much more adept.

 

[sonofva]

If you're not a surgeon you'll get way more out of TCMC. This is also at BAMC. TCMC is like C4 on steroids, and more applicable to role 1/aid station trauma care. EWS was more oriented towards teaching non trauma surgeons (i.e. ENT, etc) how to do trauma surgery procedures

 

[Denatured]

If you're not a surgeon you'll get way more out of TCMC. This is also at BAMC. TCMC is like C4 on steroids, and more applicable to role 1/aid station trauma care. EWS was more oriented towards teaching non trauma surgeons (i.e. ENT, etc) how to do trauma surgery procedures

Thanks. After reading about it, that does sound like it would more useful.

 

[sonofva]

No problem. PM me if you have further questions about either course.