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Brooke Army Medical Center recently hosted a two-day course aimed at equipping military medical personnel with the skills needed to provide medical support during humanitarian health emergencies. The Military Medical Humanitarian Assistance Course (MMHAC) focuses on the unique health challenges faced in austere environments, such as diarrhea, dehydration, malnutrition, epidemic measles, malaria, and respiratory infections.
“This course helps students understand the resources available – and not available – to them in resource-limited settings,” said Army Lt. Col. (Dr.) Megan Donahue, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. “They learn about major causes of morbidity and mortality in humanitarian emergencies and how best to prevent and treat these. They also learn the capabilities and limitations of military medical providers in humanitarian emergency settings.”
The MMHAC course, created by the Department of Pediatrics at USUHS in 1998, has been updated over the years to enhance education for military medical professionals. Course scenarios focus on the role U.S. military medical assets play as early responders to humanitarian emergencies with limited resources.
Air Force Capt. Kevin Puri, an intern physician at BAMC, took the course to prepare for his next assignment as a flight surgeon for the 36th Fighter Squadron at Osan Air Force Base, South Korea. “I pursued this course to enhance my operational readiness as a military physician,” Puri said. “Knowing I will be stationed overseas in the Pacific Command, I recognized the importance of being equipped to respond effectively in humanitarian assistance missions and natural disaster relief efforts.”
Army Capt. Madeline Donnelly, also a transitional year intern, will attend the Internal Medicine Residency Program at BAMC next year. “I took the MMHAC course because my main motivator for pursuing a career in the military was to use the military as a vehicle for providing humanitarian aid,” Donnelly said. She hopes to use the skills learned in the course on future deployments or humanitarian aid missions in Central and South America.
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