199: SOF to SOM with Justin
In this episode, Dennis interviews Justin, a second-year medical student and co-founder of Special Operations Forces to School of Medicine (SOFtoSOM), a nonprofit organization that helps Special Operations Forces service members and veterans in their journey to become physicians. Justin explains that SOFTSOM provides mentorship, guidance, and support to individuals from the SOF community who are interested in pursuing a career in medicine. The organization helps with the application process, offers scholarships for MCAT prep, conducts research on veterans in medicine, and partners with universities to increase soft representation in medical school classes. Justin also emphasizes the importance of tailoring application essays and preparing for interviews to highlight the unique experiences and skills of SOF applicants.
AEC is PFC!
The Austere Emergency Care Course is a prolonged field care course based on 10 years of knowledge gained from our original Prolonged Field Care Working Group and Ragged Edge Solutions’ experience and background in training military special operations to operate around the world without traditional medical Support. Over time, and after many inquiries by civilian/non-military clinicians it was realized that the need and demand signal is robust outside of the military. Just like PFC was developed as an adjunct for military medics once they reached the end of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC,) AEC was created with the civilian provider in mind once they reached the end of Tactical Emergency Casualty Care algorithms. From this Specialized Medical Standards and the Austere Emergency Care Course was born. Read more…
PFC Coffee?! Support the Cause!
Imagine sitting there on a nice lazy Sunday morning drinking a nice warm cup of coffee as you plan prolonged field care training for the upcoming week. Now imagine doing exactly the same thing PLUS the added bonus of supporting a veteran owned coffee company that is donating a significant portion of the proceeds to fund Dennis’ insatiable appetite for new video equipment and my addiction to fumbling through my Adobe subscriptions to bring you better content. Lobo Coffee is owned and operated by Erik Herr, formerly of 7th SFG(A,) and has partnered with us to continue providing the Medics on the ground with the most up to date knowledge, techniques and ideas in our field.
Thanks to our Newest Sponsor: SOTech!
In our quest to provide the most relevant and useful information at no-cost to medics providing care across the globe we decided to reach out to the community for support in the form of sponsorships, donations and Patreon subscriptions. SOTech has been innovating and serving the SOF Medical Community with high quality tactical gear purpose built for harsh environments for years. Their generosity and support will now extend further as we expand in a much more sustainable way as a result of this sponsorship.
Podcast Episode 100 and SOMSA-22
In the 100th Episode of the Prolonged Field Care Podcast Dennis sits down with Jamie, Sean and Paul to talk about the last 100 episodes and how prolonged field care evolved over the past 7 years from when the working group was established at SOMA 2013 in Tampa, FL.
Podcast Episode 94: We are Back
After some time to reorganize, restructure, and strategize, we will be continuing to update best practices, share ideas and raise the important questions faced by medics around the world. We have taken this step to lay the old prolonged field care working group construct to rest and form a new organization (with the same core people): the Prolonged Field Care Collective.