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How do you do medical Sim Wars in a pandemic?  Listen to LtCol Rod Fontenette talk about creating a virtual Sim Wars the past two years for GSS.  We are excited to welcome back our top teams from each service for the in person final round at GSS 2022 in Orlando this April 8-10.   Join us for the best military emergency medicine conference in the world. Amazing speakers, world class labs, Sim Wars...

Point of Care ultrasound is moving from the radiology suite to the battlefield.  Dr. Weymouth discusses creation of a medic centered point of care ultrasound curriculum and some brief case discussions. CME is no longer available for this lecture.  However, GSACEP members can access the full presentation and slides at https://gsacep.tradewing.com/event/fC7PFy6FJd2brZRaf.   Join us for Government Se...

Gerald Maloney, DO, CPPS, CHCQM, FACEP For access to the slides and to view the whole lecture, visit: https://pheedloop.com/GSS21/virtual/?page=sessions&section=SESU5TWG5FMV7FZYX This lecture qualifies for 0.5 Category I Continuing Education Credits.  How to claim CME for this podcast: Use this link to access the certificate process, you will need to complete the entire evaluation in order to...

Shane Summers, MD, is the Deputy Director, Army Trauma Training Center (ATTC) and is an Associate Professor Military and Emergency Medicine, USUHS. For access to the slides and to view the whole lecture, visit: https://pheedloop.com/GSS21/virtual/?page=sessions&section=SES00442M4U09ZQ8B This lecture qualifies for 1.0 Category I Continuing Education Credits.  How to claim CME for this podcast:...

Dr. Meaghan Keville is an Active Duty EM physician stationed at CSTARS Baltimore at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. Graduated USU in 2010 and then completed EM Residency at Wright Patterson AFB/Wright State University 2010-2013. She has been forward deployed with CCATT, TCCET and with a field surgical team in support of USSOCOM. In this lecture, she discusses the importance of mindset and...

Col John Wightman Professor and Chair, Department of Military & Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University Col Wightman offers very concrete tips on how to tackle common military problems. For access to the slides and to view the whole lecture, visit: https://pheedloop.com/GSS21/virtual/?page=sessions&section=SESWQ2NDQF1L36S80 This lecture qualifies for 0.5 Category I Continuing Edu...

COL (Ret) Missy Givens shares her surprising journey through the Army over her career, and insights into how to take advantages of opportunities to create a full and rewarding career in military emergency medicine. For access to the slides and to view the whole lecture, visit: https://pheedloop.com/GSS21/virtual/?page=sessions&section=SESYRISFRH6ESP95O This lecture qualifies for 1.0 Category I...

Col (Ret) Edward Fieg spent one of his multiple deployments as an embedded advisor to an Afghan hospital, focused on improving the nation's capability to care for patients.  He shares his reflections on his time in Afghanistan and how the end of the Afghanistan war has affected him. Read more about his time in Kandahar at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mRbAjsyyFhvUItnFD53pg8LiZahWz-_O/view?...

Col(s) Kristen Silvia is a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician, Flight Surgeon and currently Chief of Bioastronautics at Detachment 3, Human Space Flight Support Office, Patrick Space Force Base, Florida. She leads the DoD’s contingency medical operations for NASA and U.S. Space Command in support of U.S. crewed space flight programs. She also directs training of space medicine to all DoD...

LtCol Joseph Maddry is an Air Force emergency physician and toxicologist.  Here he shares the unique aspects of deployment toxicology. For access to the slides and to view the whole lecture, visit: https://pheedloop.com/GSS21/virtual/?page=sessions&section=SESMFXGA02OWN0GYV This lecture qualifies for 1.0 Category I Continuing Education Credits.  How to claim CME for this podcast: Use this link...

Welcome to our first episode of the GSACEP Career Corner! We will highlight an individual's career path, with tips on how to succeed in varied military/federal assignments! Lieutenant Commander Stuart earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he commissioned through the Navy ROTC program. He received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine...

Are you curious about the recent buzz phrase, "Knowledge, Skills and Abilities" and maintenance of skills? Wonder about the requirements being developed to keep us ready to give care in a deployment environment? Would you like to be able to speak to your leadership and a possible employer regarding your skill sets? How do you defend that some of the more rarely done EM procedures are don...

Dr. Steve Sample and Dr. Torree McGowan reflect on the differences in their deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, drawing on their shared experience as emergency medicine residents at SAUSHEC and their overlap in Balad.  Dr. Stephen Sample, MD graduated from University of Louisville Medical School 2005, and completed his emergency medicine residency at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Educ...

Dr. Regan Lyon and CPT Brian Thebaud share perspectives from their roles on embedded medical teams  in some of the furthest forward medical care in current combat operations.  Major Regan F. Lyon is an emergency medicine physician and Defense Analysis graduate student at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Prior to starting graduate school, she served with the Special Operations Surgica...

Feeling unprepared for your first leadership position in your organization?  Dr. McGowan will offer high yield tips from her experience as a medical director and military commander to set you up for success in your new job.  She will explore a simple leadership model for use with peers and subordinates, offer strategies for successful meetings, and prepare you to give effective negative feedback t...

Dr. Andrea Austin interviews Dr. Maximillian Lee on the impacts of the current events in Afghanistan on the physicians who served in that theater of war.  Col (ret) Lee is the former Air Force Special Operations Command, Chief of Aerospace Medicine  and an influential leader in the development of our current physician forward operating stance. He deployed to Afghanistan multiple times as an emerge...

Did you know medical errors are the 3rd leading cause of death- just behind heart disease and cancer? Learn the secret sauce behind creating a safer environment for your patients and your practice in this 30 min seminar from COL Bonnie Hartstein, Army Consultant and AMEDD Quality and Safety Director. For access to the slides and to view the whole lecture, visit: https://pheedloop.com/GSS21/virtual...

Al Giwa is a former attorney who entered medicine to become a bioethics professor; in the process he has started and led several successful ventures spanning the healthcare and legal consulting world to entertainment companies and healthcare startups.  He studied philosophy as an undergrad at Clark University, Law at the University of Ilorin, and attended Columbia University for his MD. He obtaine...