In recent operations, the US military was able to rapidly evacuate most casualties, allowing medical providers to focus on the ‘golden hour’ of patient care. Future conflicts with peer and near-peer adversaries will require providers to render care for as long as 72 hours, in a concept known as prolonged casualty care. Additionally, advanced medical capabilities at the point of injury, including the provision of whole blood and ultrasound, require providers to have knowledge and skills beyond current levels of training.

To address these challenges, the military medical community envisions an evolution of the training landscape, with shifting educational paradigms and vastly improved technical capabilities. This session will provide this vision with perspectives from the requirements, acquisition, and research and development communities, and will be appropriate for any audience interested in military or healthcare training.

This session will provide attendees with:

• An overview of current military medical simulation capabilities
• A discussion of the next generation of medical simulation capabilities, including interfacing with the Synthetic Training Environment (STE)
• Capability gaps from the military medical community and current science and technology efforts addressing them