Overview

MTM’s primary educational program serves two key purposes: training U.S. military medical personnel to identify, prevent and treat tropical diseases that their own forces might encounter on deployments; and medical engagement with other countries that is aimed at working with local physicians to help them connect with rural residents and foster lasting relationships within the countries’ own health care systems.  This course targets the knowledge base required to work in developing areas delivering care, and surveying and assessing risk to include meaningful interaction with referral preventive medicine and research laboratory resources as well as partner governmental and non-governmental organizations.

MTM has several activities designed to develop core technical competencies in clinical care and public health for both force health protection and medical stability operations. Its largest offering is MTM-Didactics, an intensive four-week classroom and laboratory experience held each July.  A subsequent advanced course called MTM-Field provides mentored training deployments in August. Each year 60-100 students attend MTM-Didactics, while 40-60 students from that class or who have taken earlier pre-requisite training from MTM or USU travel with MTM-Field teams.