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• MHS Conference Day Three: Training, Families and Voices of Wounded Warriors

  Posted by DCoE Strategic Communications
  February 13, 2012

  In the opening plenary sessions on day three of the Military Health System Conference, Vice Adm. Matthew Nathan, Navy surgeon general, showed a picture of an amputee service member walking efficiently with prosthetics, hand-in-hand with his family.

  “That dad is missing a leg and an arm but he’s not missing a family,” he said. “Most importantly, that family is not missing him.”

  The future of the Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) was discussed in the presentation “METC Update – FOC and Beyond.” The tri-service, Defense Department health care education campus, located at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, features 60 medical programs, state-of-the-art facilities and more than 24,000 annual graduates. One highlight was the campus’ emphasis to educate students in accordance with their service.

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