As the use of digital textbooks in schools continues to increase, hard copy textbooks are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Even more so after the coronavirus pandemic forced schools to transition to remote and hybrid learning, resulting in the skyrocketing use of electronic textbooks, or eBooks, and audiobooks in the classroom.

Hospital Corpsman Second Class Douglass Jones joined the Navy to challenge himself and develop skills that could one day be useful outside of the military. Fortunately for one service member, Jones was able to apply his newly learned skills in a very unexpected way.

When the Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) first stood up on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas 13 years ago, it became the world’s largest enlisted medical education campus.

Petty Officer 1st Class Caleb Gonzalez, an instructor in the Navy dental assistant program at the Medical Education and Training Campus, will realize a childhood dream when he begins dental school this summer.

Spc. Abby Milinkovich, a 2017 graduate of the Medical Education and Training Campus Combat Medic Specialist Training Program (previously known as the Department of Combat Medic Training), is currently working on her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree at a Minnesota college while serving in the Army National Guard.

As the Pentagon prepares today’s force for a “near-peer” fight against a large military adversary, the Military Health System is challenged to provide life-saving support for large-scale and dispersed operations. That’s especially true for the medics supporting troops on the front lines.

Army and Navy students in the Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) Occupational Therapy Assistant program held an Open House recently to showcase their interactive class projects and explain how they are applicable in military rehabilitation.

Air Force Tech. Sgt. and METC AMSA instructor aids car crash victims

Years of military conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan brought innovations that completely transformed the Military Health System's approach to combat casualty care. Here's a list of just a few ways military medicine has evolved in the two decades since the 9/11 attacks.

The Faculty Student and Staff Development program teaches the importance of a customized study system to new and struggling METC students, while the government $36 million over the course of four years.

Davenport University is just one of nearly 90 colleges and universities that METC partners with to establish degree bridge programs for military personnel

Virtual/augmented reality, 3D printing, video/podcast production, and machine learning/artificial intelligence technologies and others like them will enhance the training students receive at METC and elsewhere by supplementing the lectures and providing realistic alternatives to actual experiences.

Military mental health professionals provide a critical role in behavioral health care for service members and beneficiaries.

NDTs help diagnose problems with the brain and nervous system, as well as sleep disorders, by use of state-of-the-art digital equipment to record electrical patterns which result in valuable data that the doctor needs to diagnose and treat their patients.

Nutrition plays an important role in military readiness.