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The principles that governs military medical simulation training is reflected by the military maxim, “Fight like you train and train like you fight.” Preparing the deploying military medical personnel (MMP) for operational and battlefield conditions is one of the most difficult challenges facing the military simulation community. The injury patterns seen in war and the skills required for combat medicine are rarely encountered or rehearsed under civilian medical practice. To achieve this mandate, the United States military has long employed simulation training exercises for combat training, pre-deployment personnel readiness, and deliberate practice of team-based operations [1–4]. This chapter describes how the military employs simulation training to address these unique training needs, and the impact simulation training has had on the success of its medical units on the battlefield.
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Park, C.W., Baker, J., Pollock, J.M., Platt, G.W. (2021). Simulation in Defense and Combat Medicine. In: Strother, C., Okuda, Y., Wong, N., McLaughlin, S. (eds) Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Emergency Medicine. Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57367-6_24
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