USUHS "Final Exam"

[Slevin]

I saw a more updated article than this a few months ago but the idea is the same... Is this really part of the course work at USUHS? It seems like it's completely useless. Now I haven't spent time deployed as a physician but I've been a GMO For almost 2 years and I was former infantry I just can't see the practical reasoning behind a "final exam" such as this except that they want the students to be all hoo ahh about military medicine. Am I wrong here

http://www.acep.org/content.aspx?id=46265

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[deuist]

You're right, it probably is useless in the grand scheme of things. It falls in line with taking organic chemistry, going through officer training school, attending the school of aerospace medicine as a medical student, and riding an ambulance as a resident in emergency medicine. We do lots of things is doctors "for the experience of it" or "just because they might be useful" in the future.

 

[Mace1370]

I saw a more updated article than this a few months ago but the idea is the same... Is this really part of the course work at USUHS? It seems like it's completely useless. Now I haven't spent time deployed as a physician but I've been a GMO For almost 2 years and I was former infantry I just can't see the practical reasoning behind a "final exam" such as this except that they want the students to be all hoo ahh about military medicine. Am I wrong here

http://www.acep.org/content.aspx?id=46265

The article uses the term "essentially their final exam," but that is basically just a journalist who doesn't understand medical school (or school in general) trying to use generic terms (final exam) to make the exercise seem more important than it is. It isn't a final. Everyone passes. It is a field exercise and takes about two weeks (1 week work up, 1 week in the field) to complete. It counts for C4, so if you don't do Bushmaster you are going to do a similar field exercise anyways.

 

[pgg]

That's just C4. The USUHS grads don't have to take a week off internship to go because they do it as MS4s under a different label.

Nothing to get excited about.

 

[Homunculus]

yeah, this is nothing to worry about. being prior service you will probably find it amusing.

"many take personal leave to come back to participate in future exercises." i just snorted coffee out my nose.

evidence, please. and 3 or 4 does not count as "many." what normal person would waste their personal leave doing this? i know commands love their training courses but i've become more attuned to these exaggerations.

--your friendly neighborhood BS meter checking caveman