title: Recent Advances in Forward Surgical Team Training at the U.S. Army Trauma Training Department.
abstract: U.S. Army Forward Surgical Teams (FSTs) are elite, multidisciplinary units that are highly mobile, and rapidly deployable. The mission of the FST is to provide resuscitative and damage control surgery for stabilization of life-threatening injuries in austere environments. The Army Trauma Training Center began in 2001 at the University of Miami Ryder Trauma Center under the direction of COL T. E. Knuth, MC USA (Ret.), as a multimodality combination of lectures, laboratory exercises, and clinical experiences that provided the only predeployment mass casualty and clinical trauma training center for all FSTs. Each of the subsequent five directors has restructured the training based on dynamic feedback from trainees, current military needs, and on the rapid advances in combat casualty care. We have highlighted these evolutionary changes at the Army Trauma Training Center in previous reviews. Under the current director, LTC J. M. Seery, MC USA, there are new team-building exercises, mobile learning modules and simulators, and other alternative methods in the mass casualty exercise. This report summarizes the latest updates to the state of the art training since the last review.
authors.affiliation: Divisions of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Dewitt-Daughtry Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Ryder Trauma Center, 1800 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.
authors.forename: Casey J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.affiliation: Divisions of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Dewitt-Daughtry Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Ryder Trauma Center, 1800 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Straker
authors.affiliation: Divisions of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Dewitt-Daughtry Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Ryder Trauma Center, 1800 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.
authors.forename: Clark R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Murray
authors.affiliation: Divisions of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Dewitt-Daughtry Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Ryder Trauma Center, 1800 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.
authors.forename: William M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Hannay
authors.affiliation: Divisions of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Dewitt-Daughtry Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Ryder Trauma Center, 1800 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.
authors.forename: Mena M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Hanna
authors.affiliation: Divisions of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Dewitt-Daughtry Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Ryder Trauma Center, 1800 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.
authors.forename: Jonathan P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Meizoso
authors.affiliation: Divisions of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Dewitt-Daughtry Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Ryder Trauma Center, 1800 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.
authors.forename: Ronald J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Manning
authors.affiliation: Divisions of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Dewitt-Daughtry Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Ryder Trauma Center, 1800 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.
authors.forename: Carl I
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Schulman
authors.affiliation: Divisions of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Dewitt-Daughtry Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Ryder Trauma Center, 1800 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.
authors.forename: Jason M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Seery
authors.affiliation: Divisions of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Dewitt-Daughtry Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Ryder Trauma Center, 1800 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.
authors.forename: Kenneth G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Proctor
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum / Q000639:trends; D004493:Education / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D054527:Mass Casualty Incidents; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000193:education*; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009719:Nurse Anesthetists; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000639:trends*; D000066908:Simulation Training; D066231:Surgeons; D014481:United States; D014857:Warfare; D000078329:Workforce; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000601:surgery*