Photo caption: Forty-two health specialists (most were veterinarians; one agriculturalist and one pediatrician) representing various uniformed services (Active Duty Army, Army Reserves, Air National Guard, Air Force, and Public Health Service) reviewed and discussed animal health in potential areas of deployment in support of Stability Operations involving animal agriculture production systems and public health. Veterinary Stability Operations: Global Veterinary Medicine, July 25-29, 2011, Athens, GA.
The Medical Stability Operations Curriculum Development Program (MSOC) was created to develop an educational program for the U.S. Military, United States Governmental (USG) inter-agency partners, and partner and host nations as identified by the geographical Combatant Commands (COCOMs). This program will be a collaboration and partnership between the Uniformed Services University through the Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine (USU/CDHAM) and Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute (DMRTI)
Proposed Plan Activity includes:
- Curriculum Development;
- Subject Matter Expertise (SME) Committee Development and Coordination; and
- Course Design and Execution.
The MSOC course has three main objectives,
- To increase the confidence and self-efficacy in fulfilling necessary to establish, reconstitute, and maintain healthcare of the indigenous population when indigenous, foreign, or U.S. civilian professionals cannot do so.
- To increase the competence of the learner in establishing and maintaining working relationships with relevant U.S. Government Departments and Agencies, foreign governments and security forces, global and regional international organizations (IOs), U.S. and foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and Private Sector individuals and for-profit companies.
- To increase the ability of the learner to provide doctrinally sound, operationally integrated medical support to meet the demands of stability missions.
