Full mCurriculum Course—Bridging Military and Civilian Trauma Surgery—Is Now Available

To help surgeons achieve and maintain their clinical readiness, the ACS, in coordination with the Military Health System Strategic Partnership American College of Surgeons (MHSSPACS) and the Uniformed Services University Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, has developed a free video-based resource—the Military Clinical Readiness Curriculum, also known as the “mCurriculum.”

The full slate of 42 mCurriculum modules is now available.

Several modules of the mCurriculum were first released in late 2022; recently, additional modules were published, representing the complete course of easily navigable “just-in-time” educational elements for surgeons to access whenever they need to hone their surgical skills.

While 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.

The mCurriculum course is available at facs.org/mcurriculum.