Military Graduate Medical Education Research: Challenges and Opportunities

INTRODUCTION Over the past 150 years, military medical research has made significant contributions to American health care. In the past decade alone, military medicine has achieved significant advances in combat casualty care by demonstrating the value of tourniquets, damage control resuscitation and surgery, new infection management guidelines, transcontinental critical care transport, advanced prosthetics, and new techniques in rehabilitation. This pioneering research cannot occur in a vacuum. As in civilian settings, medical research must be nested in an academic architecture. In the Military Health System (MHS) the foundation for cuttingedge research is built at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and through military Graduate Medical Education (GME).