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BUMED Medical Inspector General evaluates NAMRU San Antonio
March 8, 2024 — The Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Medical Inspector General evaluated the performance, efficiency, and mission readiness at the Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio during a scheduled command inspection at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute from March 4-6... MORE

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (March 6, 2024) – Program managers assigned to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio attend the outbrief of the U.S. Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) Medical Inspector General, Capt. William Deniston at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute. Approximately 12 inspectors conducted evaluations of 40 programs and collateral duties over three days at Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio to improve command performance and processes. NAMRU San Antonio’s mission is to conduct gap driven combat casualty care, craniofacial, and directed energy research to improve survival, operational readiness, and safety of DoD personnel engaged in routine and expeditionary operations. It is one of the leading research and development laboratories for the U.S. Navy under the DoD and is one of eight subordinate research commands in the global network of laboratories operating under the Naval Medical Research Command in Silver Spring, Md. (U.S. Navy photo by Burrell Parmer, NAMRU San Antonio Public Affairs/Released)

Navy Medicine unveils logos to support new command structure
March 4, 2020 — Navy Medicine unveiled a series of unifying logos March 3 to support the establishment of more than 60 new medical commands... MORE

Navy offers new online options for continuing education units
January 18, 2018 — Continuing Education Units, or CEUs, may now be earned online via the Veterans Health Administration, or VHA, “Train,” said Capt. Ethan Josiah, head of the Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command, or NMETLC, Staff Education and Training Program Management Office, or SEAT PMO, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston... MORE

Cmdr. David A. Deike, NMETLC Staff Education and Training (SEAT) east region liaison (right), and Thomas B. Doke, NMETLC SEAT west region liaison, discuss the web-based Veterans Health Administration (VHA) “Train” system. Navy Medicine personnel may now earn required Continuing Education Units (CEU) at no cost to them, their command or Navy Medicine via Train, the VHA's online learning management system (LMS).

Plotting the future of educating, training and equipping Navy Medicine
July 31, 2017 — Leaders from across the Navy Medicine education, training and logistics enterprise and from the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, or BUMED in Washington, D.C., wrapped up a 2 ½ day strategic planning offsite in San Antonio July 21... MORE

(From left) Capt. Robert Fry, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; Rear Adm. Rebecca McCormick-Boyle, Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command commander; Cmdr. Faria Belmares, NMETLC Academics; Senior Chief Damario Payton, NMETLC Academics; and Cmdr. Thomas Sather, BUMED, pose with a framed photo of BUMED Headquarters presented to Belmares and Payton in recognition of their work supporting Navy Medicine education and training. BUMED leaders joined NMETLC and their subordinate commands in attendance at a strategic planning offsite in San Antonio.