Sec. 709. Joint Trauma Education and Training Directorate
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The Secretary of Defense shall establish a Joint Trauma Education and Training Directorate (in this section referred to as the Directorate ) to ensure that the traumatologists of the Armed Forces maintain readiness and are able to be rapidly deployed for future armed conflicts. The Secretary shall carry out this section in collaboration with the Secretaries of the military departments. The duties of the Directorate are as follows: To enter into and coordinate the partnerships under subsection (c).
To establish the goals of such partnerships necessary for trauma combat casualty care teams led by traumatologists to maintain professional competency in trauma care. To establish metrics for measuring the performance of such partnerships in achieving such goals. To develop methods of data collection and analysis for carrying out paragraph (3). To communicate and coordinate lessons learned from such partnerships with the Joint Trauma System established under section 708. The Secretary shall enter into partnerships with civilian academic medical centers and large metropolitan teaching hospitals that have level I civilian trauma centers.
Under the partnerships entered into with civilian academic medical centers and large metropolitan teaching hospitals under paragraph (1), trauma combat casualty care teams of the Armed Forces led by traumatologists of the Armed Forces shall embed within the trauma centers of the medical centers and hospitals on an enduring basis. The Secretary shall select civilian academic medical centers and large metropolitan teaching hospitals to enter into partnerships under paragraph
(1)based on patient volume, acuity, and other factors the Secretary determines necessary to ensure that the traumatologists of the Armed Forces and the associated clinical support teams have adequate and continuous exposure to critically injured patients. In entering into partnerships under paragraph (1), the Secretary may consider the experiences and lessons learned by the military departments that have entered into memoranda of understanding with civilian medical centers for trauma care. The Secretary of Defense shall conduct an analysis to determine the number of traumatologists of the Armed Forces, by specialty, that must be maintained within the Department of Defense to meet the requirements of the combatant commands. Not later than July 1, 2017, the Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate an implementation plan for establishing the Joint Trauma Education and Training Directorate under subsection
(a)and entering into partnerships under subsection (c). In this section, the term level I civilian trauma center means a comprehensive regional resource that is a tertiary care facility central to the trauma system and is capable of providing total care for every aspect of injury from prevention through rehabilitation.