Skip main navigation

Military Health System

Clear Your Browser Cache

This website has recently undergone changes. Users finding unexpected concerns may care to clear their browser's cache to ensure a seamless experience.

A classroom at METC
Skip subpage navigation

Education & Training

The Military Health System includes a robust, innovative, and enterprise-wide system that maximizes education and training opportunities. This ensures we're improving health and building readiness — Anytime, Anywhere—Always.

DHA leads standardized, high-value education and training activities at all levels. This includes:

  • Service members.
  • Health care providers.
  • DHA global workforce.

Workforce professional development and sustainment programs also contribute to the organization’s commitment to a fulfilled staff.

Our Training Opportunities

DHA Learning Management Systemgoes to DHA LMS page (hosted by Joint Knowledge Online)

DHA Academy

Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute

Leadership, Education, Analysis, Development, Sustainment

Medical Education and Training Campus

Medical Modernization and Simulation Division 

 

Our Training Partners

U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine

 

TRAIN Learning Network

 

Uniformed Services University

 

U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence

 

VHA TRAIN

You also may be interested in...

Article Around MHS
Apr 9, 2024

Combat Medic Embraces the Cool Part of the Army

U.S. Army Spc. Brianna Braham poses for picture

Even though the day’s exercise focuses on the testing of a new tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided missile targeting system, Braham, a combat medic assigned to the 2nd Cavalry Regiment’s Quickstrike Troop, believes that every training exercise is an opportunity for self-improvement.

Article Around MHS
Mar 11, 2024

Expeditionary Medical Facility 150 Alpha Provides Role 3 Medical Capability During 1st Med Bn Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation

Sailors from Expeditionary Medical Facility 150 Alpha receive a simulated patient from 1st Medical Battalion on Feb. 27, 2024, aboard Naval Expeditionary Medical Training Institute, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.  (Photo: Petty Officer 2nd Class Stevon Duren )

Sailors from Expeditionary Medical Facility 150 Alpha provided the Role 3 medical capability during the 1st Medical Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation from Feb. 26 through March 1, 2024, aboard Naval Expeditionary Medical Training Institute.

Article Around MHS
Dec 5, 2023

U.S. Army Capt. Veronica Wright: A Leader Working to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Military Health

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s U.S. Army Capt. Veronica Wright is paving a commendable path for her military career. Currently in her fourth year of the Combined Internal Medicine and Psychiatry Residency Program, Wright holds not one, but two key roles. She is both the chief resident of her program and also presides as the chairperson of the Graduate Medical Education Committee's Sub-Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, being recognized for the work she's doing. (Photo by Ricardo Reyes-Guevara/Walter Reed National Military Medical Center)

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are values increasingly recognized as crucial in various sectors, including health care education. For Wright, these values are more than just popular buzzwords—they form the foundation of her work. She champions an inclusive approach in health care education to reduce bias, promote fair treatment, and ...

Article Around MHS
Nov 24, 2023

‘People First, Compassion, Servant Leadership, and Genuine Respect for All’ – Retired Sergeant Major Reflects on Career, Value of Veterans in Continued Service

U.S. Army Pvt. Darryl Warren poses for a photo during  basic training in Fort Knox, Kentucky, in 1987. Today, retired U.S. Army command sergeant major Darryl Warren is an operations program analyst with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity at Fort Detrick, Maryland, a job he has held since shortly after retiring from the U.S. Army after a 31-year career. (Courtesy Photo)

The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity is an integral component of the Department of Defense’s medical readiness enterprise. A key to USAMMDA’s success as the DOD’s premier developer of modernized medical devices, treatments, and equipment is the knowledge and experience brought to the table by its many veterans, who work alongside both ...

Article Around MHS
Oct 19, 2023

Lights, Camera, Ultrasound! Uniformed Services University Nursing Students Train Using High-Tech Simulation Theater

The Uniformed Services University students from the family and women’s health nurse practitioner program attended the university’s Wide-Area Virtual Environment at the Simulation Center for the first time in Oct. 2023. (Photo by Tom Balfour, USU)

Military students from the Uniformed Services University conducted immersive medical team training in the university's Wide-Area Virtual Environment. The theater is a a state-of-the-art 3D immersive reality facility that simulates various scenarios, replicating environments from war zones to medical emergencies, to prepare them for real-world medical ...

Article Around MHS
Oct 12, 2023

Airman, Soldiers Graduate from Interservice Physician Assistant Program at Walter Reed

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center physician assistants pose for a group photo in front of Walter Reed's Tower in Bethesda, Maryland, Oct. 6, 2023. The physician assistants came together in recognition of National Physician Assistants Week. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Brett Walker)

Although the paths that Air Force Capt. Grace Kim and Army 1st Lts. Demetre Harris and David Owunna took to achieve their shared dream of becoming physician assistants (PAs) differed, all donned their white lab coats as the military’s newest PAs during their graduation from the Interservice Physician Assistant Program (IPAP) on Sept. 29 at Walter Reed.

Last Updated: March 19, 2024
Follow us on Instagram Follow us on LinkedIn Follow us on Facebook Follow us on X Follow us on YouTube Sign up on GovDelivery