Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
Mil Med. 2023 May 18;188(Suppl 2):56-62. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usad011.
Operation Bushmaster is a high-fidelity simulation held for fourth-year medical students at the Uniformed Services University. No past research has examined this multi-day simulation's ability to prepare military medical students for the complexities of their first deployment. This qualitative study, therefore, explored Operation Bushmaster's impact on military medical student deployment readiness.
We interviewed 19 senior military medical personnel serving as faculty members at Operation Bushmaster during October 2022 in order to explore how Operation Bushmaster prepares students for their first deployment. These interviews were recorded and transcribed. Each research team member then coded the transcripts and came to a consensus on the themes and patterns that emerged from the data.
The following themes described the ways in which Operation Bushmaster prepares military medical students for their first deployment: (1) primes them for the stress of the operational environment; (2) teaches them to navigate austere conditions; (3) facilitates their leadership development; and (4) provides them with a deeper understanding of the military's medical mission.
Operation Bushmaster immerses students in a realistic, stressful operational environment, challenging them to develop an adaptive mindset and efficacious leadership skills that they will utilize during future deployments.
“布什大师行动”是一项针对统一服务大学四年级医学生的高保真模拟训练。没有以往的研究考察过这项为期多天的模拟训练，它是否能让军事医学生为首次部署的复杂性做好准备。因此，这项定性研究探讨了“布什大师行动”对军事医学生部署准备情况的影响。
我们在 2022 年 10 月采访了 19 名在“布什大师行动”中担任教员的高级军事医务人员，以探讨“布什大师行动”如何使学生为首次部署做好准备。这些采访被记录并转录下来。然后，每个研究小组成员对这些转录本进行编码，并就数据中出现的主题和模式达成共识。
以下主题描述了“布什大师行动”使军事医学生为首次部署做好准备的方式：(1)使他们为作战环境的压力做好准备；(2)教导他们在艰苦条件下导航；(3)促进他们的领导力发展；以及(4)使他们更深入地了解军队的医疗使命。
“布什大师行动”让学生沉浸在一个真实的、充满压力的作战环境中，挑战他们发展出适应能力和有效的领导技能，这些技能将在未来的部署中得到应用。
