Henderson Jonathan, Pock Arnyce, Elster Eric
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
Mil Med. 2025 Apr 23;190(5-6):145-149. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usae481.
The Uniformed Services University is known for its dual mission of preparing military medical officers for operational readiness and leadership roles. The Joint Expeditionary Medical Officer (JEMO) project is a novel internal program that was initiated in 2022 and aims to fortify and evaluate the essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) within the School of Medicine's Molecules to Military Medicine curriculum that are pivotal for the development of a deployment-ready military medical officer. The JEMO-KSA program identifies and deliberately develops a core set of mission-critical skills during the course of students' undergraduate medical education. This helps ensure that Uniformed Services University graduates attain a strong foundational level of operational readiness across various military medical domains. Currently, 371 distinct KSAs have been integrated into the curriculum, with over 86% being assessed at different time frames. Over time, our goal is to present individual students with a customized JEMO "report card" depicting their readiness level; a document that could be updated and expanded throughout their military medical career. The JEMO project represents a significant stride toward optimizing the readiness of military medical officers by systematically identifying, strengthening, and assessing vital operational skills and abilities. With an ongoing commitment to excellence, the project envisages creating an even more robustly structured curriculum that is continually refined to address current operational readiness, setting a new standard for military medical education. While challenges such as accurately measuring the impact of integrated KSAs and continuously updating them to meet evolving military needs remain, the forward momentum associated with the JEMO project will help facilitate the development of military medical officers who have the KSAs to actively support mission success while simultaneously enhancing the overall effectiveness of military health care.
美国军医大学以其双重使命而闻名，即为军事医疗官员做好作战准备和担任领导角色做准备。联合远征医疗官（JEMO）项目是一个新颖的内部项目，于2022年启动，旨在加强和评估医学院“从分子到军事医学”课程中的基本知识、技能和能力（KSAs），这些对于培养随时可部署的军事医疗官员至关重要。JEMO-KSA项目在学生本科医学教育过程中识别并刻意培养一套核心的关键任务技能。这有助于确保美国军医大学的毕业生在各个军事医疗领域达到强大的作战准备基础水平。目前，371项不同的KSAs已被纳入课程，超过86%在不同时间框架内进行评估。随着时间的推移，我们的目标是为每个学生提供一份定制的JEMO“成绩单”，描述他们的准备水平；一份可以在他们的军事医疗生涯中不断更新和扩展的文件。JEMO项目通过系统地识别、加强和评估重要的作战技能和能力，朝着优化军事医疗官员的准备状态迈出了重要一步。通过持续追求卓越，该项目设想创建一个结构更强大的课程，不断完善以满足当前的作战准备需求，为军事医学教育树立新的标准。虽然仍存在准确衡量综合KSAs的影响以及不断更新它们以满足不断变化的军事需求等挑战，但与JEMO项目相关的前进动力将有助于促进军事医疗官员的发展，这些官员具备支持任务成功的KSAs，同时提高军事医疗保健的整体效力。
