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Joining Forces Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin

Joining Forces leverages Military-Civilian partnerships to decrease preventable injury deaths, facilitate clinical knowledge exchanges, and increase the clinical readiness for military medical providers.

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Mission

The Joining Forces Program fosters inter-agency and inter-departmental collaboration for training & education, translational research, clinical care, and community engagement to advance and support the objectives of the Medical College of Wisconsin Comprehensive Injury Center (CIC): To achieve zero preventable deaths from injury, both in the community and on the battlefield. We are a distinguished leader in this field because we are:

  • The premier clinical training partner of the US Department of Defense.
  • A pioneer in DoD-related biomedical and health science research.
  • A team of quality-driven, dedicated, and innovative providers who strive to improve the health of the communities we serve.

MCW and U.S. Army Join Forces to Save Lives

Joining Forces Programs

AMCT 3 Program: Army Military-Civilian Trauma Training Team Program

AMCT 3 Program: Army Military-Civilian Trauma Training Team Program

The AMCT3 program is based upon directives within the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act and is designed to sustain the trauma surgery and resuscitation skills for the licensed providers within an US Army Forward Resuscitative Surgical Team (FRST). These clinicians are fully imbedded and licensed to treat patients while stationed in Milwaukee. Periodically the AMCT3 personnel provide care as a team in the trauma bay (approximately 1-2 times per month), in order to build and sustain the interoperability necessary during deployment. Additional individual specialists and surgeons may be added to this program from year to year, each to remain for their full 3-year term.
PFC Program: Provider Prolonged Field Care Program

PFC Program: Provider Prolonged Field Care Program

This program is designed for Physicians and Physician Assistants assigned to Special Operations units as the groups or battalions’ providers. Milwaukee is the first military-civilian partnership that focuses on the fundamental principles of critical care with limited resources. Throughout a 4-week rotation, these licensed military providers will partner with the institutions credentialed providers to sharpen their knowledge and skillset in different areas of patient care. They are in the capacity of a learner doing an unaccredited mini-fellowship, with varying degrees of independence, based upon their individual competencies and the supervising providers’ discretion.
MPT Program: Medical Proficiency Training Program

MPT Program: Medical Proficiency Training Program

This innovative program is designed to build upon the skills taught to the US Army Special Operations Combat Medic (SOCM) and Special Forces Medical Sergeant (SFMS). Over a 4-week course, military personnel will rotate through the hospital to augment their abilities as non-licensed providers. Training objectives encompass a wide spectrum of acute and sub-acute care. Rotations through the ED and Trauma Center, Surgery, SICU, and specialty clinics where they will work directly with patients under the supervision of licensed providers and nursing staff, with varying degrees of independence, based upon the individual’s competency and the supervising providers’ discretion.

Contact Information

Andrew Eades
Program Manager 1
(414) 955-1842

Department of Surgery, Administration
Medical College of Wisconsin
8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
Milwaukee, WI  53226