All Branch Topic (ABT) Preparing for Medical Humanitarian Deployments

[Perrotfish]

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For those who have been on the Comfort/Mercy/similar, any knowledge base that you think would have been helpful? Parasitology? Trop Med? TB? Are the military's medical humanitarian courses at all helpful? I'm expecting to do a medical humanitarian mission either this coming summer or the following year.

 

[WernickeDO]

The military tropical medicine course is pretty good. I would imagine that would be arranged prior to your deployment. I brought along "Lecture Notes: Tropical Medicine" in addition to my other medical textbooks. Unless things go really askew on you deployment you will probably get more use out of your internal/family/pediatric texts than your trop med text.

 

[narcusprince]

Couple things you might need for a humanitarian deployment are protection, a prenump, a good lawyer.......

 

[trixmd]

You might consider the Military Medical Humanitarian Assistance Course. I've taken it and given a couple lectures for it, and done a couple missions. Pretty good course overall.
http://mmhac.cdham.org/