Army Medical Department Transformation. Executive Summary of Five Workshops

Abstract

The Army has been transforming itself into what it calls the Future Force, which relies on a combination of rapid operations, dispersed forces, and superior information to enable a medium-weight force to fight with the punch of heavy conventional forces. These new concepts pose considerable challenges for the organizations that support the combat forces on the battlefield, and the challenge is particularly great for medical forces, which must find, stabilize, and evacuate casualties that are spread across a dispersed battlefield. To determine what the new concepts mean for providing medical support to the fighting units, the Army Medical Department (AMEDD) conducted five Transformation Workshops (ATWs) from 2002 to 2004 to identify the challenges the new concepts posed to providing battlefield medical support and to explore what those challenges might imply for medical force structure.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA449273

Entities

People

  • David E. Johnson
  • Gary Cecchine
  • Jerry M. Sollinger

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combat Casualty Care
  • Employment
  • First Responders
  • Health Services
  • Medical Evacuation
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Science
  • Patient Care
  • Personnel Management
  • Surgery
  • Therapy
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Trauma or Military Medicine