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METC student overcomes challenges to fulfill dream of joining the Navy
January 30, 2019 — Through perseverance, patience and determination, Seaman Gideon Osei is fulfilling his dream of serving in the Navy. Overcoming obstacles, challenges and doubts along the way that would have caused others to quit, Osei has persevered and is beginning his service in the Navy as a hospital corpsman after graduating from the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Jan. 28. ... MORE

Seaman Gideon Osei practices patient care by working on a mannequin in a training room at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. Osei, who emigrated to the U.S. from Ghana three years ago, graduated from the METC Hospital Corpsman Basic Program Jan. 28.

The Navy corpsman: carrying the legacy
January 8, 2019 — The screams of the wounded and dying filled the stale room as medical workers rushed to check for pulses, resuscitate the unconscious and stop the bleeding. The darkness was pierced by red and green lights that illuminated pools of blood on the floor. Nervous hands scrambled to find the proper medical equipment amid the chaos of the combat environment that surrounded them, working frantically and disregarding their own safety. Fortunately, none of this is real; it's a simulated casualty exercise, part of the training every future Navy hospital corpsman undergoes. The rate is actually the largest and most decorated in the Navy... MORE

Seaman Brandon Taylor, a corpsman, inserts a decompression needle into an essential care simulator manikin during shock trauma section drills. The drills focused on sharpening life-saving skills and capabilities.

METC histotechnician instructors make history
November 30, 2018 — Three histotechnician program instructors at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston have made history by becoming the only histotechnicians in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy to have attained the Qualification in Immunohistochemistry, or QIHC, certification by the American Society for Clinical Pathology... MORE

Tech. Sgt. Onyee L. Carter, a histotechnician program instructor at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, assists a student with a slide sample during laboratory training.

Council on Occupational Education lauds METC for ‘world-class’ tech training
November 19, 2018 — From Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, the Medical Education and Training Campus, or METC, hosted an evaluation team from the Council on Occupational Education, or COE, for the second time in eight years. The purpose of the visit was to ensure that METC is abiding by all standards for national accreditation... MORE

Members of the Council on Occupational Education evaluation team meet with leadership and staff from the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston during the accreditation evaluation site visit in-brief.

Former USS Cole command master chief visits Navy students, METC staff
September 27, 2018 — Oct. 12, 2000 was a day retired Command Master Chief James Parlier will never forget. The retired Navy hospital corpsman was serving as the command master chief, the highest enlisted crew member, of the USS Cole when it was attacked while being refueled in Yemen’s Aden harbor. Seventeen Sailors were killed and another 39 were critically wounded... MORE

Retired Master Chief James Parlier observes a student conduct mass casualty training in the Hospital Corpsman Basic program at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Sept. 21. Parlier is joined by his great nephew, Petty Officer 3rd Class Shelton Carter (left), and HCB instructor Petty Officer 1st Class Renata Williams (right).

Navy Surgeon General, Force Master Chief visit Navy Medicine Training Support Center
August 16, 2018 — Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy surgeon general and chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; and Force Master Chief Hosea Smith Jr., Hospital Corps director, visited the Navy Medicine Training Support Center, or NMTSC, Aug. 2... MORE

Petty Officer 1st Class Joaquin Cruz (right), an instructor at the Medical Education and Training Campus, greets Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy surgeon general and chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery during his visit to Navy Medicine Training Support Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston.

JBSA Navy Medicine commands host Navy STEM externship visit
July 3, 2018 — San Antonio area Navy Medicine commands hosted 26 middle and high school guidance counselors, and high school chemistry and health professions educators June 27 at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston as part of a summer externship focused on high school student career preparation and exploration... MORE

Lt. Cmdr. Kirby Jahnke, Navy Medicine Training Support Center, shows medical instruments to a tour group of San Antonio middle and high school guidance counselors June 27. The tour provided educators and counselors with a general overview of the Navy, to raise awareness of Navy career opportunities through a tour of the medical training campus.

Twins with military bloodlines forging path at METC
May 11, 2018 — Identical twin sisters with military bloodlines are forging their own path in the service as students at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston... MORE

Private Joanna Barton (left) and Private Jaclynn Barton (right) are identical twins who are students in the radiology program at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. The twins entered the program in March and are set to graduate in September.

Uniformed Services University Offers Degree Opportunities for Enlisted Members
February 12, 2018 — Enlisted service members have often been referred to as the backbone of the military for their support, leadership, willingness to get the job done and thirst for knowledge. Retaining dedicated, talented troops is important to ensuring that their experience is passed on to the next generation of noncommissioned officers and to preparing them for careers in the civilian sector once they leave the service. ... MORE

Dr. Kenneth Moritsugu (center), a member of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences board of regents, watches students in the Medical Education and Training Campus medical laboratory technologist course practice blood draws at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. The MLT course is one of several METC programs that offer enlisted students a degree pathway through USU’s College of Allied Health Sciences.

Front and Center: Medical Education and Training Campus instructor a mentor to students, instructors
February 8, 2018 — Being selected to become a pharmacy technician turned out to be a wise career choice for Master Sgt. Robert George, the senior enlisted advisor for the Pharmacy Technician Training Program at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston... MORE

Master Sgt. Robert George, Medical Education & Training Campus pharmacy training senior enlisted leader, speaks with a pharmacy student Feb. 5 at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. George leads Department of Defense’s pharmacy technician program prepares students to perform both inpatient and outpatient pharmacy operations in both traditional and non-traditional pharmacy practice.

Sisters serve, train together in different services at METC
January 29, 2018 — When Airman 1st Class Gisella Panchana graduates from the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Jan. 30, she will go through conflicting emotions about the occasion... MORE

Sisters and service members, Navy Seaman Michelle Panchana (left) and Air Force Airman 1st Class Gisella Panchana (right) were students together at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston from August 2017 to January 2018. Airman Panchana graduated from the METC Radiology Program Jan. 30, while Seaman Panchana is scheduled to complete the METC Pharmacy Program in April.

METC preventive medicine specialist program graduates first international military student from Liberia
October 26, 2017 — Pfc. Yardy Collins holds the distinction of being the first international student from Liberia to graduate from the preventive medicine specialist program at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Oct. 20... MORE

Pfc. Yardy Collins from Monrovia, Liberia, and his fellow classmates wait for the start of the Medical Education and Training Campus preventive medicine specialist graduation ceremony Oct. 20 at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. Collins is the first international military student from Liberia to graduate from the program.

Navy Hospital Corpsman school graduation first of its kind
October 18, 2017 — The first class to train under the newly revised Hospital Corpsman (HM) “A” School curriculum graduated Oct. 13 at a ceremony at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston... MORE

Petty Officer 2nd Class Zachary Riley (right), an instructor assigned to Navy Medicine Training Support Center, grades a hospital corpsman (HM) "A" School student as she reads the list of steps she must take for a simulated patient during a final exercise at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Oct. 5. The students are in the first class to go through a revised HM "A" School curriculum which incorporates the Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) Course as the final exercise, the first time ever that this critical qualification has been included in the "A" School.

METC-trained lab technicians meritoriously advanced
October 12, 2017 — Cmdr. Stacie Milavec, head of the laboratory department at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa, Japan, and Chief Petty Officer Jane Nonthaveth, the laboratory department’s leading chief petty officer, hoped at least one of the three, first tour corpsmen they nominated under the Navy’s Meritorious Advancement Program, or MAP, would be selected for advancement. Instead of just one, all three Sailors – each of them a Medical Education and Training Campus, or METC, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, graduate – were selected for the honor. ... MORE

(From left) Petty Officer 2nd Class Johnny Le, Petty Officer 3rd Class Candice Smith, Chief Petty Officer Jane Nonthaveth, and Petty Officer 3rd Class Royal Miller following the meritorious promotion ceremony concluded June 30 at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa, Japan.

Medical Education and Training Campus partners with Air Force, Navy for hurricane relief
September 25, 2017 — The devastation of Hurricane Harvey may be one of the worst storms in recent memory. Thousands have been left with only the clothes on their back, questioning when and how they will get be able to move past the destruction. Like a call to arms, volunteers from the Medical Education and Training Campus, Naval Medical Training Support Center, and the 59th Training Group at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston took action. They worked diligently to collect non-perishable food items, clothing, blankets, shoes, diapers, pet food, and other items... MORE

Air Force, Navy and civilian volunteers from the Medical Education and Training Campus (METC), 59th Training Group, and Navy Medicine Training Support Center (NMTSC) load donations collected for victims of Hurricane Harvey onto a truck for transportation to the sorting area Sept. 19. In all, the team collected and donated 450 pounds of food to the San Antonio Food Bank, $3,300 in donated diapers to the Diaper Bank, $19,000 in clothing and incidentals to the Salvation Army, and numerous donations to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and homeless shelters.

METC combat medic instructor memorialized during classroom dedication
September 18, 2017 — John D. Darsey, known as “J.D.” by his friends and co-workers, was remembered as a dedicated, loyal, and trustworthy member of the Army combat medic training team during a memorial service and classroom dedication ceremony at the Medical Education and Training Campus Aug. 11... MORE

John D. Darsey, known as “J.D.” by his friends and co-workers, was remembered as a dedicated, loyal, and trustworthy member of the Army combat medic training team during a memorial service and classroom dedication ceremony Aug. 11. Darsey, an emergency medical technician, or EMT, instructor at the Medical Education and Training Campus department of combat medic training, or DCMT, passed away July 9.

Medical Education and Training Campus uses hologram technology to train combat medics
August 23, 2017 — Students in Combat Medic Training program Alpha Class 70-17 at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston gathered around Alonzo Gonzales, an emergency medical technician course instructor, Aug. 21 as he explained the morning’s lesson... MORE

Alonzo Gonzales, a combat medic program emergency medical technician course instructor at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, lectures students in Alpha Class 70-17 about different obstetrics complications utilizing a specialized OB training manikin. The OB manikins resemble life-size pelvic cavities inside which the “fetus” can be positioned to replicate any number of complicated situations.

Sailors, veterans recognize one of their own; ceremony honors Medal of Honor recipient
August 18, 2017 — Sailors, military veterans and San Antonians braved scorching South Texas temperatures Aug. 15 to participate in a graveside memorial service honoring Seaman John E. “Jackie” Kilmer, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor June 18, 1953... MORE

John Rodriguez (right), a Marine Corps veteran, salutes as the Navy Medicine Training Support Center CPO select color guard presents the colors for the National Anthem during an Aug. 15 graveside memorial service in San Antonio honoring Seaman John E. “Jackie” Kilmer, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor June 18, 1953.

Medical Education & Training Campus pharmacy student sets example for her children
August 17, 2017 — Airman 1st Class Amanda Cervantes, a student in the Medical Education and Training Campus Pharmacy Technician program on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, wants her children to follow her lead by serving in the military... MORE

Airman 1st Class Amanda Cervantes, a student in the Medical Education and Training Campus Pharmacy Technician program on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, conducts a mock exam to learn how to use the Composite Health Care System database. "Mock" exams test the skills that the students have learned to prepare them not only for the graded exam, but for what they will see in the clinical training phase and eventually in their permanent duty station. Cervantes, a widow with four children, joined the Air Force Reserve to set an example for her children, serve her country, and work in the medical field so she can help people.

Navy surgeon general meets with Hospital Corps school staff, students
August 3, 2017 — During a recent visit to south Texas, the Navy surgeon general met with Hospital Corps School leaders, staff and students from Navy Medicine Training Support Center, or NMTSC, and the Medical Education and Training Campus, or METC, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Aug. 2... MORE

Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy surgeon general and chief, U.S. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, speaks to students in the newly revised HM “A” School course at the Medical Education and Training Campus, or METC, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. The “A” School recently went through a major revision and Faison spoke with students to discuss their important role in the future of Navy Medicine.