Military Clinical Readiness Curriculum Provides Critical Education for Military and Civilians Surgeons

To help surgeons achieve and maintain their clinical readiness, the ACS offers the free, online Military Clinical Readiness Curriculum, also known as the “mCurriculum.”

The mCurriculum, offered in coordination with the Military Health System Strategic Partnership American College of Surgeons and the Uniformed Services University Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, offers 42 easily navigable “just-in-time” educational modules for surgeons to access whenever they need to hone their surgical skills.

The course is designed to improve the trauma surgery skills of deployed military surgeons, it also can be valuable for trauma surgeons and general surgeons operating in civilian settings, particularly rural ones.

The mCurriculum is organized into seven domains of knowledge, with multiple modules in each section:

• Airway and Breathing (four modules)
• Critical Care and Prevention (six modules)
• Expeditionary Unique (10 modules)
• Head and Spine Injury (five modules)
• Torso Trauma (five modules)
• Transfusion and Resuscitation (six modules)
• Wounds, Amputations, and Fractures (six modules)

The modules detail critical topics such as burn care, trauma airway management, thoracic trauma, damage control surgery, urologic and gynecologic trauma, fresh whole blood transfusion, infection control, pain and delirium, management of severe head trauma, and many more.

Learn more and access the curriculum.