Sec. 1235. United States and Israel Trauma and Amputee Rehabilitation Education and Training Program with the Medical Corps of the Israel Defense Forces
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The Secretary of Defense shall establish an education and training program to be known as the United States and Israel Trauma and Amputee Rehabilitation Education and Training Program with appropriate personnel of the Medical Corps of the Israel Defense Forces. The United States and Israel Trauma and Amputee Rehabilitation Education and Training Program shall include the following activities: Dialogue between personnel of the military health system and the Medical Corps of the Israel Defense Forces on best practices for general trauma care, with a focus on amputation and amputee care, including the following elements of amputee care:
Use of prosthetics. Wound care. Rehabilitative therapy. Family counseling. Mental health therapy. Training activities for personnel of the military health system and the Medical Corps of the Israel Defense Forces on trauma care, to include amputation and amputee care, including with a focus on surgical techniques for amputation and on providing post-amputation care. Opportunities for personnel of the Medical Corps of the Israel Defense Forces to— attend classes offered by personnel of the Center for the Intrepid of the Brooke Army Medical Center or any other military health system facility on best practices for trauma and amputee rehabilitation; and observe amputee rehabilitation treatment methods administered by personnel of the Center for the Intrepid of the Brooke Army Medical Center or any other military health system facility.
Any other educational activities that the Director, in coordination with appropriate officials from the Israel Defense Forces, determines relevant.