Education

As faculty of the Department of Psychiatry of USUHS (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences), the Center teaches future military physicians human behavior, clinical psychiatry and military psychiatry. The Center advances disaster psychiatry through Center-sponsored fellowships and promotes trauma preparedness amongst military, government, healthcare, industry and academic stakeholders.

The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress also provides educational resources on the consequences of traumatic exposure for the military health care system (including soldiers and families), public health care systems, academia, private industry and to the general public.

To extend its educational reach, the Center conducts conferences to educate military physicians on combat care, presents at national and international conferences on workplace preparedness for terrorism, develops distance-learning resources for the continuing medical education of health providers, and delivers grand rounds on trauma at the nation’s leading academic medical centers. The Center has also created fact sheets to distribute as an educational resource. Military health fact sheets improve the well-being of deployed troops and their families, and disaster and terrorism fact sheets assist healthcare providers in response and recovery, stress management, and interventions and treatment. The Center has unique disaster expertise around such topics and issues as body handling, psychological first aid and grief leadership.