Accession Number:

AD1098421

Title:

Feasibility Study for the Consolidation of Military Medical Education and Training Organizations, Functions, and Activities (Revised)

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report,01 Nov 2018,01 Apr 2019

Corporate Author:

Institute for Defense Analyses Alexandria United States

Personal Author(s):

• John,Sarah K
• Carrington-Fair,Dylan J
• Goldberg,Matthew S
• Hildreth,Laura A
• Lindly,Jamie M
• Luan,W P
• Minneci,Madeline
• Burns,Sarah K

Report Date:

2019-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

194.0

Abstract:

The medical education and training E and T enterprise is large, complex, and decentralized. The purpose of this project is to analyze the feasibility and desirability of consolidating military medical E and T organizations, functions, and activities into a newly established Education and Training Organization ETO subordinate to the Defense Health Agency and headed by the president of the Uniformed Services University USU. To complete this analysis, we perform the first collective assessment of the Departments medical E and T enterprise as a whole. Three different reform models are then developed and analyzed. Our findings indicate that it is feasible to consolidate medical E and T and that consolidation would be expected to provide certain benefits. However, the estimated financial and opportunity costs associated with the reform options are also significant.

Descriptors:

• feasibility studies
• medical personnel
• education
• training
• military medicine
• personnel management
• military hospitals
• combat casualty care
• distance learning
• public health
• students

Subject Categories:

• Medicine and Medical Research
• Personnel Management and Labor Relations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE